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From a visiting Australian friend, Peter Kenyon, who travels the world doing extraordinary things , we recently learned about the Sharehood operating in Melbourne, Australia. It sounds great so we decided to tell the rest of you about it as well. 
Straight from their website, we thought actually they should do the telling . So over to them:
"The Sharehood aims to build joyful, sustainable and resilient communities by encouraging people to get to know their neighbours and share with them.
The Sharehood has many aims. Mostly we're about building empowered, secure, active, and inclusive communities. Additionally, the environment is one of the important things the Sharehood aims to improve. Composting and community gardens are frequent issues that come up for a community, and sharing resources locally means less production, consumption and transportation, which are all good for the environment.
Not only is sharing also good for saving money individually, it also directs resources away from the mainstream economy and back into the community sphere, thus reversing the expandsion of markets into areas such as cooking and childcare previously provided by the household and local community. The Sharehood also incorporates a local currency which can be used for bigger trades with the aim of creating local non-exploitative community economies.
The Sharehood began in September 2008 in Northcote, a lentil belt suburb of Melbourne, Australia. Theo Kitchener delivered a letter inviting 250 of his neighbours to create a local community and share household goods, skillshare with each other, and get to know one another. Theo then developed the beginnings of this website. Since then, we have grown into a small collective and have become an incorporated not-for-profit association.
There are now over twenty 'hoods' operating mainly in Melbourne, but also around Australia and the world. The Sharehood is going global and if you're interested in helping spread the Sharehood in your city or region please let us know as we want to get regional groups started everywhere and anywhere.
The Sharehood is mostly run by a collective of volunteers although we have one employee working one day a week. The collective meets twice a month and anyone is welcome to come along and get involved.
Please get in touch if you want to have a chat, or give us feedback, criticisms or suggestions. The Sharehood is here to be shaped by its community.
We hope to change the way people interact in the world and we're only just begun to do that. If you'd like to get involved, that would be fantastic."
And that's the start of their story, obviously growing by the day .
If you have a group like this in any aspect of sustainable development or environmental endeavour or actions on climate change feel free to tell us so we can tell others, info@celsias.com gets us .
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