Fieldwork · Interdependence in practice

What do you wish you could meet closer to home, with other people?

Here are real ways people are meeting needs together. Browse first, or tell us what you wish existed closer to home.

Food: Open Food Network helps farmers and communities build shorter food networks. Repair: Repair Café brings neighbours and volunteer repairers around broken belongings. Local action: Transition Network helps local groups choose the work their communities need. Browse all 44 examples →

Ideas travel. Communities make them local.

Your Fieldwork

You are not the only one imagining this.

Here are some of the closest ways people are already meeting similar needs together.

These are examples for learning, not endorsements. Fieldwork names what is promising, what is difficult, and what remains unknown.

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Across the field

Different needs. Different places. A shared instinct.

Explore 44 real organizations and movements by the practical need they meet.

How to explore

Every idea has a journey.

1It began with

2They built

3You could begin

Open an example and choose 1, 2 or 3 to move through its story. Opens, stars and closer selections contribute to shared project totals using a browser-held identifier. Inspiration notes are sent to In+ter only when you choose the send button.

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