A new landscape for skill-sharing emerges from pandemic aftermath
The pandemic has created many challenges for skills exchanges and other sharing initiatives that rely on person-to-person contact.
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Istanbul Restaurant Offers Job Training and Other Services for the Homeless
Explaining the many barriers former sex workers, abuse victims, and the homeless face at getting a fresh start in life, Tükrükçü says her personal experiences helped her understand that what is needed most to build a new life is skills.
The Buzz Tour: walking across England to pollinate change on climate
“What can I do about climate change?” “Very little. What can WE do about climate change? EVERYTHING.”
Skillsharing: What’s is all about?
A skillshare is the quintessential Sharing Economy creation.
Hungry for change: Transitioning to local food supplies
The fact that globalisation has an impact on people’s lives in the UK is undeniable while the desirability and level of this impact is still very much up for debate. After spending the last few months in Totnes — a small yet increasingly well-known town in Devon, UK — I have spoken with many people seeking practical ways to connect to their local area so that they do not have to rely so heavily on sprawling global supply chains.
We can work it out
So I tried to explain how it is in Transition that a lot of the learning and teaching we do is not that formal. As we sat by Nick’s fire with tea and hot cross buns, we talked about skill-share and seed-swaps, plant walks and bee talks, Trade Schools and Green Drinks, it struck me that there was a time when I didn’t know about any of this knowledge-sharing, workshop-giving world either. I didn’t know what a facilitator was, or a go-round, or people who said it is not in my remit, or wave their hands in the air and bring lunch to share. There was a time when checking in had to do with the hotel, rather than a circle of strangers in some dusty church hall.