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Freelancers Union
| October 21, 2009
Freelancers Union is a nonprofit organization that represents the needs of America’s independent workforce though advocacy, information, and service.
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Learn From Your Neighbors at Community-based Workshops in Brooklyn
Scott Ballum | October 7, 2009
The idea of skill sharing is one dear to our hearts, so we were excited to hear about this weekend's Brooklyn Skillshare at the Gowanus Studio Space.
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Open: From the Editor
Scott Ballum | September 25, 2009
While it is certainly a group effort over here at Team Sheepless, at the moment I am the only full-time employee/manager/editor/designer/business director. As I prepare to pry into the lives and businesses of grassroots organizations, activists, artists, and entrepreneurs, I think its only fair to start with my own.
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An Old-Fashioned Community Bookstore Raising
Scott Ballum | September 23, 2009
This past weekend we were invited by some friends to volunteer with them staining book shelves at a new bookstore being created on Lafayette Avenue in Brooklyn's Fort Greene neighborhood. It's called Greenlight Bookstore, and is about the get just that in the coming weeks. The owners, Jessica Stockton Bagnulo and Rebecca Fitting, have made amazing efforts to be a part of the community around them, and for the community to be a part of them as well.
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Self, and Importance. A Call to Reflection and Action
Scott Ballum | September 20, 2009
“No matter what one’s class, race, gender, or social standing… without the capacity to think critically about ourselves and our lives, none of us would be able to move forward, to change, to grow.”-bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
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Sheepless Teeshirt Project
Scott Ballum | August 14, 2009
On June 11, 2009, leaders of educational, cultural, and socially-driven organizations, along with friends and collaborators of Sheepless, gathered at Green Spaces in Brooklyn, NY, to celebrate the inauguration of the new business.
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Organizing Around Food Democracy in Brooklyn
Scott Ballum | April 14, 2009
It’s clearly conference season, but one recent and worthwhile addition is the massive community-based affair masterminded by the Park Slope Food Coop called the Brooklyn Food Conference. Featuring workshops approaching issues as diverse as Policy, Economic Development, Access, Health, Sustainability, and Organizing, the massive conference expects nearly 2,000 attendees.
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Educating Youth to Design Solutions for Social Issues
Scott Ballum | April 12, 2009
When it comes to utilizing design or creative thinking to shape our society, few avenues are more direct or have more potential than reaching out and fostering a commitment to social responsibility within our schools and our children.
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Sustainable Design and Community in the Treehouse
Scott Ballum | February 23, 2009
Friday, we had the opportunity to tour Brooklyn’s newest “green space”, a seven story office building on Flatbush Avenue in the Downtown area. Stuffed to the gills with beautiful salvaged and reused materials (from industrial kitchens to carnival-ride horses, and everything in between), the building is currently home to creative businesses for whom sustainability is part of their core mission.
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Canadian Curators Present 99 Ways To Better a City
Scott Ballum | February 17, 2009
The Canadian Center for Architecture is exhibiting Tools for Action: What You Can Do With the City through April 19, 2009. The exhibit presents 99 recent events from around the world in which simple acts of walking, recycling, painting, playing or gardening has transformed some aspect of urban negativity into a place for positive change.