dot.LA: How the 'Thrift Haul' Boosted Secondhand Ecommerce Platforms
If you can believe it, it’s been more than a decade since rapper Macklemore extolled the virtues of thrift shopping in a viral music...
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- Feb 9
Perfect Daily Grind: How can producers use green coffee to barter for other goods and services?
Across the Bean Belt, the vast majority of coffee farmers sell their coffee (either as cherry or parchment) in exchange for income. After...
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Bloomberg: Rent Crisis Leaves Brits Paying for Rooms With Household Work
Lodgers walk dogs, clean floors and cook meals to keep a roof over their head. by Helen Chandler-Wilde Johanna Lundström, 57, can’t...
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Daily Mail: Whether you're after a retro gem or need a bargain in these cash-stretched times...
...sharpen your elbows, says Liz Hoggard, and get ready to barter at the place to be – a car-boot sale. by Liz Hoggard Liz Hoggard talks...
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NYT: ‘Fast Furniture’ Is Cheap. And Americans Are Throwing It in the Trash.
The mass-produced furniture that sold furiously during the pandemic could soon be clogging landfills. by Debra Kamin Consumers in the...
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Seven Days: Bartering Helps Vermonters Cope With Inflation While Building 'Networks of Trust'
Kaitlin Nelson wanted to throw a housewarming barbecue at her new home in Belvidere. The thing was, she had no outdoor furniture and...
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ABC News: Bartering increases in Argentina as inflation keeps soaring
With a monthly inflation rate of 7.4% in July, the highest number in two decades, Argentina is cementing its position among the countries...
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GN Network: Dutch Are Reducing Waste By Fixing Broken Objects With Online Local Barter Network
Finding someone who can fix a broken piece of furniture, mend clothing, or repair a family treasure has become easier thanks to a new...
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PR Newswire: Bartering for a Better Future: Why the Barter System is Making a Comeback
Even though it's a gardening supply company, Backyard Farming Supply is focused on staying current on relevant economic trends; one of...
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WSJ: Let's Make a Deal - Sluggish Economy Gives New Life to Barter
The growing role of barter in the marketplace By Andrew M. Kaikati and Jack G. Kaikati Bartering has been declared dead in the U.S. more...
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Real Simple: How to Barter Your Skills to Save Money
Are you a pet whisperer? A pro at fixing things? An expert baker? See what those talents can get you. by Erica Lamberg...
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WSJ: Shanghai’s Lockdown Knocks Out E-Commerce, Leaving Group Buying and Bartering
As grocery delivery is thrown into disarray, one neighbor gets three oranges in return for lending out his cat by Shen Lu and Natasha...
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Ukraine Food Exporter Forced to Barter as War Cuts Off Cash
Astarta isn’t getting paid for its sugar, grains and milk: CEO Government promises aid to help sowing in Europe’s breadbasket by Kateryna...
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Axios: How to simplify your life — and get rid of your stuff
by Erica Pandey We're filling our lives with so much junk that the U.S. now has more self-storage facilities than McDonald's, Wendy's,...
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WIRED: How to (Ethically) Get Rid of Your Unwanted Stuff
With so many extensive online selling and donation resources, there's no need to get bogged down. by Jaime Stathis IF WE HAVE stuff we...
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BBC: China - Xi'an residents in lockdown trade goods for food amid shortage
People quarantined in the Chinese city of Xi'an are bartering supplies amid continuing worries over food shortages. Videos and photos on...
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How to Overcome the Tyranny of Stuff
A Holiday Thought on the Possibilities and Virtues of a Recycled Economy by Robert Reich What if we were all more intentional about...
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WSJ: An Antidote to Inflation? ‘Buy Nothing’ Groups Gain Popularity
These groups are having a moment, adding some two million participants in the past year as prices rise and concerns grow over waste by...
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CNBC: From Buy Nothing to Freecycle, gifting groups help bolster budgets and build community
By Carmen Reinicke When Sherose Badruddin, 38, joined her local Buy Nothing group in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, five years ago, she did...
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CNN Hero's offer of rice inspired people in Bali to collect nearly 500 tons of plastic for recycling
By Laura Klairmont, CNN "I got to thinking, inside the challenge there is an opportunity," he said. So, he started a program where local...
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NPR Audio: How To Trade-up From A Bobby Pin To A House
By Stacey Vanek Smith Like many in May 2020, Demi Skipper was looking for a distraction in the middle of quarantine. As she was racking...
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LPL Media: Argentinians fall back on barter economy to scrimp amid financial crisis
By Verónica Dalto Buenos Aires, Aug 18 - Kid trousers for some milk, a jumper for diapers, two kid joggers for three packets of sugar, a...
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Jalopnik: You Can Buy A Toyota Hilux With Corn In Brazil
By José Rodríguez Jr. Just bartering your way to a new truck, down there in Brazil. Toyota Brazil says it will now let soy and corn...
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Harvard Business Review: The Data Economy Is a Barter Economy
By Gillian Tett What is the best way for businesses to use data in a way that feels ethical to consumers and does not spark a regulatory...
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Forbes: Don’t Underestimate The Power Of Bartering
How This Founder Created A Share For Share Community by Cheryl Robinson, Forbes Contributor Starting a business can seem daunting,...
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The New York Times: The Inequality of the GoFundMe Economy
By Shira Ovide Online charity drives help some in need, but don’t expect them to fill the gaps in the social safety net....
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The Guardian: Trading up - one woman’s quest to swap a hairpin for a house
By Neelam Tailor Demi Skipper would like a new house, but she’s not buying one. Instead she’s planning a daring strategy of trades – and...
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Marketplace: Even pre-pandemic, 1 in 3 U.S. families who needed diapers could not afford them.
By Erika Beras https://t.co/160E68SiH5
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Outside: How the Galápagos Adapted to the Pandemic
By Jamie Lafferty Oranges for dental work, milk for English lessons—when COVID-19’s initial lockdown dried up tourism dollars and supply...
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SF Weekly: Barter Bread Doesn’t Want Your Money
By Veronica Irwin Instead of selling their homemade baked goods, this couple barters their loaves to build community in isolating times....
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EATER: New Yorkers Are Bartering With This Harlem Pizza Maker for His Roman-Style Pies
By Luke Fortney At Unregular Pizza, a new way to order Italian-style pies... https://ny.eater.com/2021/2/24/22297003/unregular-pizza-pop-...
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Money: Old-Fashioned Bartering Is Back. Here's a Guide to Smart Swapping
By Sheryl Nance-Nash The pandemic has put many households’ finances in jeopardy. While tough times call for creativity, that doesn’t...
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Marketplace: “It’s turned from one need to another”
by Maria Hollenhorst “My Economy” tells the story of the new economic normal through the eyes of people trying to make it, because we...
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Jerusalem Post: Learning to barter in the COVID-19 financial crisis
by Dudi Fatimer The pandemic has had a great host of economic repercussions, which have led to the blossoming of a number of online...
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WaPo: Remote Pacific islands escaped the coronavirus this year. It devastated their economies anyway
by Adam Taylor Some Pacific island nations are leaning into their isolation as the pandemic rages, looking to family farming and even...
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Haaretz: Hard Coronavirus Times in Israel Spur a Rise in Bartering – and the Black Market
by Adi Dovrat-Meseritz More Israelis are swapping goods and services through Facebook groups or under the counter and their resentment of...
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The Guardian: A barter way of life: Covid crisis fuels swapping of goods and skills
By Suzanne Bearner Empty shop shelves drove many people to exchange items such as toilet rolls and yeast, but some have carried on...
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CNN: Bootstrapping Through the Pandemic
It’s been exactly four years since Shannon Benjamin planted a filing cabinet on the curb outside her house in Bay City, Michigan, and filled
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Reuters: Gadgets for groceries: coronavirus sparks Philippines online barter trade
By Neil Jerome Morales https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-philippines-barter-tr-idUSKBN26N09L
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HaveNeed Accepted to World Economic Forum's UpLink Platform
With the long-awaited launch of have|need (https://haveneed.org) approaching this fall, we were very pleased and honored to have been...
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BBC: Covid lockdown sees rise of 'barter classes' in Indian villages
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/business-54005481 #barter #trade #community #coronavirus #COVID #haveneed
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BBC: Could bartering become the new buying in a changed world?
By Jessica Jones Amid economic uncertainty – and a desire to connect as we distance – bartering is experiencing an unprecedented rise....
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New York Times: Can't Find It at the Store? Try Bartering for It.
By A.C. Shilton https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/smarter-living/coronavirus-how-to-trade-barter.html
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- Feb 9
AARP: Toilet Paper for Tomatoes: Bartering Culture Gains Steam
By Michelle R. Davis https://www.aarp.org/home-family/friends-family/info-2020/bartering-goods-coronavirus.html #barter #trade #community...
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UNAIDS: Fostering an economy of kindness through traditional bartering in Fiji
https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/presscentre/featurestories/2020/july/20200717_bartering_fiji #barter #trade #community #coronavirus...
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- Feb 9
Civil Beat: The Pandemic Is Changing How Hawaii Gets Its Food
By Brittany Lyte https://www.civilbeat.org/2020/07/the-pandemic-is-transforming-how-people-in-hawaii-get-their-food/ #barter #trade...
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- Feb 9
Reuters: As Lebanon crisis spirals, families barter for food on Facebook
Reporting by Dala Osseiran and Alaa Kanaan, editing by Ed Osmond https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-bartering/as-lebanon-c...
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- Feb 9
Nigeria Trade: Community uses barter system to pay for food
https://www.trtworld.com/video/bigger-than-five/nigeria-trade-community-uses-barter-system-to-pay-for-food/5d1c5c5bb9fa6764a9a56d64...
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- Feb 9
Marketplace: In this online barter group, community is a hot commodity
By Maria Hollenhorst https://www.marketplace.org/2020/06/25/online-barter-group-community-hot-commodity/ #barter #community #coronavirus...
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- Feb 9
iNews: how lockdown has led to the rise of bartering and sharing
From food to flowers. toys to tarot readings, communities have been coming together to share their good and expertise By Susie Bearne...
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