---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Neal Gorenflo <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 8:52 PM Subject: We can change it all To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> [image: Shareable] <http://www.shareable.net> Imagine hundreds of cities worldwide firmly rooted in the sharing economy. *To make this vision a reality we’re launching the Sharing Cities Network in 100 cities*, to knit together entire communities of local sharing movements. We'll hit the ground running in January 2014, but only if we raise our goal. Can you chip in $15 and be a founding member of the Network? Yes, I'll chip in $15!<http://www.shareable.net/[email protected]&utm_source=Salesforce&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=1H> [image: NOLA Timebank members] *Timebank, New Orleans* [image: women at a clothes swap] *Clothes swap, Istanbul* Dear Michel, We all want and deserve to live our best lives. Our finest selves are rooted in a sense of strong purpose, solidarity with others, and living with joy and meaning. *But our current economy is fueling a class war that divides us and seeks to commodify everything—including our precious time to do what we really love.* *We need an alternative way of living. And we need you to be a part of it. <http://www.shareable.net/[email protected]&utm_source=Salesforce&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=1H>* Together, we can make it happen. Imagine hundreds of cities around the world firmly rooted in the sharing economy. Thousands of organizers coming together to make sure that communities have access to tool libraries, worker-owned cooperatives, seed banks, coworking spaces, community gardens, credit unions, hackerspaces, farmers markets, bike kitchens, and other innovations like these that are sprouting up all around the world. *To make this a reality, we are launching the Sharing Cities Network in 100 cities worldwide—a network that knits together entire communities of local sharing movements.* We need the Sharing Cities Network because there is *currently no single city where all these local sharing models have been brought together to create a holistic, bona fide alternative to business as usual—so the old way of business still largely prevails.* But you can change this. *Will you be a founding member of the Sharing Cities Network and chip in $15 so we can get right to work? <http://www.shareable.net/[email protected]&utm_source=Salesforce&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=1H>* In a Sharing City, everyone’s needs are met because people make the personal choice to share. Everyone can create meaningful livelihoods. Fresh, local food is available to all. Affordable housing and shared transportation are abundant. The poor are lifted up, the middle class is strengthened, and the rich are respected because they all work together for the common good. And all this is possible without relying on the government or big banks, because together we can be our own agents of change. *If we can raise our goal by January 15th, we will be able to start organizing the Sharing Cities Network ASAP in January 2014.* *Yes, I will be a founding member of the Sharing Cities Network and chip in $15 to make this vision a reality. <http://www.shareable.net/[email protected]&utm_source=Salesforce&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=1H>* Because the more we share, the more we are truly our best selves and communities. And building the Sharing Cities Network will help make this alternative way of living a reality. In solidarity, Neal Gorenflo co-founder of Shareable -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/