Author Archives: Brewster Kahle

My brother-in-law runs an auto repair shop that opened a couple of years ago in a town of 30,000 in northwestern Georgia.   He joined a “Barter Exchange” and this has lead more customers to him, and helped him buy meals … Continue reading →

  What if we could have headphones that changed what music played based on where it was?   If we could make a 100,000 square foot public space with different music playing in every square foot, and then cluster the types … Continue reading →

Jim Zarra of a church in New Jersey gave me a tour of 2 houses that they own and run that are in many ways, debt-free and public benefit.    They also have an 11 unit addition to their church … Continue reading →

  Iain and Gillian Boal showed me their building before it is renovated that will be an archive and center for conversation about dissent, anarchy, and social movements.    It is great that it is located right across the street from … Continue reading →

  Iain and Gillian Boal showed me their building before it is renovated that will be an archive and center for conversation about dissent, anarchy, and social movements.    It is great that it is located right across the street from … Continue reading →

Proud father time.

My friend Matt Ostrowski sent me a link to an article written in 2001 by Michael Hudson.  Not an easy read, but interesting because it was written in 2001, therefore the before the housing bubble popped in 2007.    It shows … Continue reading →

A friend, Patricia Watts, sent this picture of her mother because she knew we are setting up a Credit Union. Helen M. Watts (1922-2012) managed a credit union in Phoenix, Arizona for 15 years (1961-1976). She was a pioneer in the movement … Continue reading →

Driving across the country with my son (great fun), in Arizona the bright sun was blotted out with a red cloud. Dust. The person at the Agricultural inspection station at the California boarder said it happened every so often.  It … Continue reading →

I saw Hugh Sinclair speak and just finished his fabulous book:  Confessions of a Microfinance Heretic: How Microlending Lost Its Way and Betrayed the Poor .   It shows how Kiva, Citi, and a famous VC, Vinod Khosla, among many … Continue reading →