172 (Part 2) Tom Llewellyn of Shareable: how sharing and cooperative projects help us thrive

About this episode

In this episode, Tom Llewellyn discusses how sharing and cooperative projects can enhance community resilience and improve local policies.

This is the 2nd part of my conversation with Tom Llewellyn of Shareable, an organization that collaborates with others to imagine, resource, network, and scale cooperative projects. • We hear about Shareable's How-To Guides, which cover a vast range of topics from how to reduce food waste to starting mutual aid funds, and Tom explains how sharing initiatives are starting to be included in city and local government policies. • And Tom offers his top tips for how we can get started with sharing and other initiatives, to improve our resilience and build stronger communities. If you didn’t catch the first episode, head back to that if you’d like to hear why Shareable has pivoted from storytelling to focus on supporting groups to replicate successful sharing solutions, what Tom sees as the key challenges around sharing, and the importance of storytelling – including the misleading narratives used by most of the media, and how these undermine our resilience.

People in this episode

Guest: Tom Llewellyn

Topics covered

• sharing
• cooperative projects
• community resilience
• food waste
• mutual aid

Keywords

• Shareable
• How-To Guides
• local government
• storytelling
• successful sharing solutions

Mentioned in this episode

Products: How-To Guides

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