Bartering/Trading Websites (+Vids)

Below are four websites designed to facilitate some form of barter, trading, sharing, or renting. Very cool. These might be a perfect, or at least workable, solution to creating a central location for our local community to come "shop" for goods and provide crafts of their own, circulated exclusively within the sphere of the community economy. This has tons of benefits, including:

1) keeping the circulation of wealth local, and therefore enriching each other instead global systems of irresponsible corporations
2) cultivating a culture of skilled, useful, and artful makers and creators of beautiful things
3) connecting people to the fruit of their labor and therefore curbing alienation
4) helping to dissolve our dependence on the US Dollar, which will not only mitigate our participation in a giant wealth-centralizing Ponzi scheme, but secure the robustness of our economy even when the dollar becomes unstable

actsofsharing.com

Acts of Sharing 101 from Jordan Crowder on Vimeo.

neighborgoods.net

How NeighborGoods Works from NeighborGoods on Vimeo.

Rentlaic.com



OurGoods.org

What?

OurGoods is a community of artists, designers, and cultural producers who want to barter skills, spaces, and objects.

Why?

OurGoods supports the production of new work through barter, because resource sharing is the paradigm of the 21st century. OurGoods is a scaleable, local initiative and part of the growing landscape of alternative models of exchange in art, design, and culture. OurGoods is specifically dedicated to the barter of creative skills, spaces, and objects. It is a community of cultural producers matching "needs" to offered "haves". OurGoods helps independent projects get done.