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ACTION KIT: Step-by-Step: Breaking the Bottled Water Habit in Your Community
Resources | by New Dream | May 12, 2015
Join the movement to say no to bottled water! In New Dream's Step-by-Step Guide to Breaking the Bottled Water Habit in Your Community, you'll find the tips and resources you need to get a campaign started today. Also available in Spanish!
Living the Dream: Kim Knuppel, Community Volunteer
Blog | by Lisa Mastny | June 3, 2016
Kim is very active in her local time bank as a way to support her community and create a more meaningful life outside of the consumer culture.
How We Started a Holiday Share Faire to Build Local Resilience and Create Community
Blog | by Rani Jayakumar | November 17, 2017
Learn how one California group is boosting local resilience and strengthening community ties by sharing stuff, skills, memories, and stories.
VIDEO: Instilling Local Pride – using video to instill pride in the unique people and places in your community (5 min.)
Videos | June 5, 2013
Video can be a powerful way to instill pride in your city. Check out New Dream's compilation of local pride videos from around the country.
Happiness and the New Simplicity: The Living Room Revolution of Community
Blog | by Cecile Andrews | July 23, 2013
Cecile Andrews explains how the cure to so many of our problems, particularly consumerism, is more community.
VIDEO: The Berkeley Tool Lending Library – thousands of tools that community members can borrow for free (5 min.)
Videos | June 21, 2012
Tool lending specialist Adam Broner gives us a tour of the library, discusses its benefits to the community, and explains why he loves his job.
SLIDES: Simplify the Holidays Presentation – a pre-packaged slideshow for presenting in your community!
Resources | October 16, 2018
We've created a set of pre-packaged slides that you can use to make presentations in your community. This comprehensive slideshow offers tips and ideas for celebrating the year-end holidays in a less-stressful, more meaningful, and simpler way.
ACTION KIT: Guide to Sharing – tips for exchanging stuff, time, skills, and space
Resources | by New Dream | July 26, 2012
The first guide in New Dream's Community Action Kit is all about sharing: everything from starting a tool library to organizing a solar cooperative, from holding a clothing swap to launching a time bank.
VIDEO: Time Trade Circle – how one U.S. time bank helps people share their time and talents while building community (5 min.)
Videos | June 21, 2012
New Dream profiles the Time Trade Circle in Cambridge, MA, which brings people together to share their time and talents while building community.
Building Community in a California Suburb, One Project at a Time
Blog | by Wen Lee | April 3, 2018
Former New Dream staffer Wen Lee shares how she’s building community in her California suburb, one project at a time.
VIDEO: How to Start a Time Bank – strengthen your community using time instead of money (5 min.)
Videos | May 26, 2015
Time banks are an amazing way for communities to share the things they love to do with each other using time instead of money as currency. Learn more through this video.
What Is the Role of Librarians in the Sharing Economy?
Blog | by Anna Awimbo | January 16, 2014
Exploring the role of the original community-sharing pioneers, librarians, in the Sharing Economy.
What Are You Doing For Others?
Blog | by Mary Murphy | January 23, 2014
New Dream celebrates MLK Day with a community event all about sharing.
Meet the 2015 Neighborhood Challenge Winners
Blog | by Margaret Swink | August 4, 2015
Learn more about our Challenge winners, five outstanding community groups that are working to make the New Dream a reality.
How I Helped Set Up a Local Permaculture Park: Q&A with Neighborhood Challenge Winner Josh Dolan
Blog | by New Dream | January 5, 2016
Learn more about Dolan's effort to establish a Permaculture Park Project in Ithaca, New York.