News & Media

Recent Articles

• The Atlantic Cities 3/4/13 – Share Everything: why the way we consume has changed forever
• BloombergBusinessweek 1/2/13 - California’s Newest Business Craze: Homemade Food
• City Farmer News 12/6/12 - California Homemade Food Act SIGNED by Governor Brown!
• Make: 11/8/12 - A New Era of Crowdfunding?
• The Inyo Register 11/8/2012 - ‘Proudly made at home’
• City Farmer News 10/16/12 - California Homegrown Food Act – seeking a California legislator to author a bill in 2013
• The Christian Science Monitor 9/28/12 - Change Agent: New California law kickstarts home-based food businesses 
• YES Magazine Nov 2012 - 10 Ways Our World is Becoming More Shareable

Audio Recordings

The Sharing Economy: How Cooperatives and Community-Supported Enterprise will Reshape the Economy. Interview with Janelle Orsi, part of the 2012 Healthy Money Summit.

Video Recordings

Unstuck Economics: How Cooperatives and Community Enterprise Will Get Us Out of this Gigantic Mess, Transition U.S. Webinar, January 9, 2013.

Community-supported enterprise, cooperatives, local investing, social enterprise, local currencies, micro-enterprise, sharing…these all adds up to local, resilient economies, that much we know.  But it’s difficult, even SCARY, to picture how we’ll get there.  The more our economy falters, the more we feel stuck: Stuck in jobs we don’t like, stuck buying cheap unsustainable products, stuck patronizing the same huge corporations, stuck in traffic…How do we get from stuck economy to resilient economy? Janelle Orsi helps visualize some of the next critical steps and how a new sharing economy can actually work.

Law and Sustainable Economies, Lewis & Clark Law School Presentation, October 8, 2012.

Janelle Orsi gives a cartoon-filled presentation to the Lewis & Clark Law School on how to utilize business, employment, property, and tax law to grow local, sustainable economies.

 

 

 

Young Lawyers Lower the Bar to Sharing Economy Interview of Janelle Orsi and Jenny Kasan, Peak Moment Television

 

 

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Transitioning to A Sharing Economy Webinar, Based on Janelle Orsi’s Co-Authored Book: The Sharing Solution, May 3, 2011

Sharing is a key ingredient in the transition to a more sustainable world. Car sharing, shared housing, barter networks, gift circles, shared food gardens, meal sharing, community energy projects, cooperatives, community-supported enterprises – these are just some examples of ways that sharing is becoming an essential part of our economy and livelihoods. With the help of goofy cartoon slides, Janelle will discuss practical ideas and tools, ways of overcoming cultural, emotional, and legal barriers to sharing, and exciting new developments in the realm of sharing.

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Economy Sandwich

Citylicious: A Movie About Growing Food in Cities

Janelle Orsi on Sharing Economies, Progressive Opportunities Conference, Feb 26, 2012

Think Outside the Boss Workshop Part 1, Richmond CA, Feb 23, 2012:

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