A Clean, Well-Lighted Place for Freelancers

Einar Vollsett, Boris Glants and Tony Duarte toil away at NextSpace in Santa Cruz. Photo by Curtis Cartier

You’d think the easiest way to find out about the effectiveness of “coworking”—the phenomenon whereby work-at-homers, freelancers and other indie business strangers elect to set up shop in a building and find out what happens—is to ask the coworkers (not to be confused with the tradition-bound drones known as “co-workers”) themselves. Trouble is, they’re all too busy working.

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Self-Employment Gets A Grip in Santa Cruz

Freelancers gather at the Rittenhouse building for Freelance Camp. Photo by Curtis Cartier

They’ve come from around the country and the world to gather on the bare concrete floor of an empty office building and talk shop. A sea of laptop-clutching writers, photographers, graphic designers, IT specialists, engineers, public relations officials and advertisement representatives with one thing in common: they never want to work for another boss again.

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Time for An Oceans Policy Overhaul

Time for An Oceans Policy Overhaul

“The Mayors’ Summit was about more than just plastic litter,” writes Jim Ayers, vice-president of Oceana and director of the Exxon Valdez cleanup. “It was about recognizing that we all have a shared past and future dependent on healthy oceans, and that efforts to protect them are now paramount in the face of climate change and ocean acidification.”

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