Thursday, September 2, 2010
 We're hitting the road! Sheepless founder Scott Ballum is driving from California to Maine—and back—to discover innovative and unique small businesses wherever they may be. Read more about the idea behind this trip here.
Friday, August 13: Washington, DC
Working on it....
Tuesday, August 3: New...
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 Third and last, we need new mechanisms for channeling our investment capital in directions that nurture community and rebuild local economies.
The financial crisis has provided us all with a crash course on how much of our economy is based not on the creation of real value, but on speculation....
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There's a neighborhood I've heard about, with the most remarkable sense of community. On one block there's a giant warehouse outfitted for woodworking, photo studios, computer rooms, and painters studios. Across the street two women collaborate with building owners to build rooftop gardens and...
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Nestled in between vacant warehouses and bustling industrial yards, 3rd Ward offers both a playground and a serious workshop for creative professionals
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successfully operate an Independent Business Alliance®
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support community enterprise.These alliances work to...
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 On Monday, May 10, Sheepless.org hosted a reception and video screening at Green Spaces in Tribeca, NY, honoring the small businesses and organizations we've profiled over the past year, and introducing the Sheepless editorial and creative team. This project sought to bring our online community,...
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August 25, 2010
We're hitting the road! Sheepless founder Scott Ballum is driving from California to Maine—and back—to discover innovative and unique small businesses wherever they may be. Read more about the idea behind this trip here.
Friday, August 13: Washington, DC
Working on it....
Tuesday, August 3: New York, NY
Though my arrival in New York was somewhat planned to coincide with that of Emily Green's...
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August 24, 2010
It's been many months since I've published an update on the status and the direction of Sheepless.org. To be frank, as I near the one-year mark of publishing online in this venue I find myself, and the future of this endeavor, quite unsettled. This is not a point where many, including myself, feel comfortable starting a public commentary on the status of their project. It is usually the time when...
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August 24, 2010
Third and last, we need new mechanisms for channeling our investment capital in directions that nurture community and rebuild local economies.
The financial crisis has provided us all with a crash course on how much of our economy is based not on the creation of real value, but on speculation. Over the last year, we have learned that the speculative economy — the one that trades in exotic...
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August 20, 2010
Living according to your ideals is easier said than done. Look at me – my interest in growing my own food has manifested itself in a single tomato I am irrationally unwilling to pick and a series of perished herb plants. I want to be the person with a thriving veggie garden, but I'm sadly lacking the space and know-how. Lucky for me and other Angelenos, the husband and wife team of Lucas Brower...
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August 17, 2010
Story contributed by Jennifer Boyer.Cafe Velo does not aim to create more consumers, they wish to create more enthusiasts. From a 180 square foot micro-cafe in the heart of downtown Portland, complete with a walk-up take-out window, Cafe Velo crafts up perfect cups of single origin coffees, pastries and lunch fare. The cafe originated as a coffee bike—literally a converted Dutch cargo bike—...
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August 11, 2010
My second proposal is that we need to adopt planning policies that support local economies.
I live in a 19th century neighborhood in a small New England city. My mother-in-law, who grew up in this same neighborhood, often talks about what it was like during her childhood in the 1940s. What I find most striking about her description is how many businesses our little section of town once had....
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We're hitting the road! Sheepless founder Scott Ballum is driving from California to Maine—and back—to discover innovative and unique small businesses wherever they may be, and documenting the trip in video as we go [WATCH], please check it out and follow along!
Why are we doing this?
There's a movement afoot, people are more and more interested in learning about where their food is coming from...
On Monday, May 10, Sheepless.org hosted a reception and video screening at Green Spaces in Tribeca, NY, honoring the small businesses and organizations we've profiled over the past year, and introducing the Sheepless editorial and creative team. This project sought to bring our online community, offline. We were thrilled to have so many cool people doing interesting things all in one room! Photo...
On June 11, 2009, leaders of educational, cultural, and socially-driven
organizations, along with friends and collaborators of Sheepless Co,
gathered at Green Spaces in Brooklyn, NY, to celebrate the inauguration
of the new business.With the help of our friends at Brooklyn screen printing shop Post Expose, guests had their favorite second-hand tee-shirts (and in one case, a tote bag) custom...
"Wait a minute... where are you?"It's the day before my 31st birthday, and my brother is calling me to wish me well and to catch up. It's been a few weeks, maybe months, since we've talked this time, and though we have a vague notion of what's going on in each other's lives, the daily specifics are often unknown—or more interestingly, filtered through our parents. So it's not surprising that he...
