By Carmen Reinicke When Sherose Badruddin, 38, joined her local Buy Nothing group in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, five years ago, she did...

By Laura Klairmont, CNN "I got to thinking, inside the challenge there is an opportunity," he said. So, he started a program where local...

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...

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...

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...

By Shira Ovide Online charity drives help some in need, but don’t expect them to fill the gaps in the social safety net....

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...

By Erica Beras https://t.co/160E68SiH5

By Jamie Lafferty Oranges for dental work, milk for English lessons—when COVID-19’s initial lockdown dried up tourism dollars and supply...

By Veronica Irwin Instead of selling their homemade baked goods, this couple barters their loaves to build community in isolating times....

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-...

By Sheryl Nance-Nash The pandemic has put many households’ finances in jeopardy. While tough times call for creativity, that doesn’t...

by Maria Hollenhorst “My Economy” tells the story of the new economic normal through the eyes of people trying to make it, because we...

by Dudi Fatimer The pandemic has had a great host of economic repercussions, which have led to the blossoming of a number of online...

by Adam Taylor https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/12/18/coronavirus-pacific-islands-pandemic-economies/ "Some Pacific island...

by Adi Dovrat-Meseritz More Israelis are swapping goods and services through Facebook groups or under the counter and their resentment of...

By Suzanne Bearner Empty shop shelves drove many people to exchange items such as toilet rolls and yeast, but some have carried on...

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

By Neil Jerome Morales https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-philippines-barter-tr-idUSKBN26N09L #HaveNeed #Barter...

With the long-awaited launch of have|need (https://haveneed.org) approaching this fall, we were very pleased and honored to have been...