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How Do Things Ever Change?  "How to find good ideas? There are good ideas for new ways of living more sustainably out there, in apartments, blocks, parks, community centers and even local businesses. However, these good ideas are often hidden. They might be concealed by being part of an ethnic group, or part of community formed around other non-sustainability focused interests – a support group or fan club or class through which people get to know each other and start to help each other with transport or accommodation or sharing equipment."
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Six Ways to Start Sharing  "Resource-sharing can be deeply fulfilling, but also frustratingly difficult, especially at the outset. If you happen not to be in one of those hotbeds of sharing innovation like Portland, Berkeley/Oakland or Brooklyn, how do you start sharing (and with whom) in a way that gives you the most chance of success? Here are a few ideas on getting started..."
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When Your Community Lets You Down  "One of the most amazing things about the process of our economic downsizing has been how embraced and supported we feel by our friends, neighbors, and surrounding community. It seems, here, that if we raise our hand and say, 'I need this. Can you help?' that our community collectively answers 'yes.' That’s why it has been so surprising on the rare occasion that we’ve been betrayed by that same community."
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When Bikesharing Fails  "When Barcelona's Bicing was inaugurated, people signed up for memberships by the thousands. There were many more users than bicycles in 2007, and often times I would arrive at a station and there would be no bike available, or the one that was would have a flat. Bikes were the targets of vandalism and robbery. If it wasn’t the whole bike that was stolen, it was the bell, the seat, the pedals. This high demand meets low-quality combo was made worse by frequent glitches in the computerized bike checkout system, as well as a lack of bike culture in the city."
How did Barcelona's bikesharing program learn from its mistakes?
3 Ways Social Bicycles Could Transform Bikesharing  "I talked with Ryan Rzepecki about his revolutionary Social Bicycles System, or SoBi for short. As bikesharing technology has evolved from easy-to-steal 'White Bikes' on the streets of Amsterdam to 'third generation' systems that rely on GPS to track a kiosk-based fleet, bikesharing programs have spread, and the SoBi technology could potentially bring bikesharing to many more cities and towns. Here are three interlocking ways that SoBi could transform the future of bikesharing..."
What is the future of sharing bicycles?
How to Share Your Car with a Stranger  "Growing up in the city of Providence, Christina Lively’s parents always set an example by encouraging their children to use public transit, instead of using a car. As a part-time musician, she owns a car so she can transport her equipment to and from gigs, but for the rest of the time the car sits idle. When she heard about RelayRides, an online peer-to-peer car-sharing platform based in Cambridge, she was excited by the thought of offering her rarely-used car to someone in the community."
What Lost Generation?  "It's true employment is down, and we have more debt than previous generations - education, ecological, credit card, etc. But we're being judged on recently failed economic paradigms: measuring growth, creditworthiness, even what is and is not valuable within or to a society are all paradigms that are now in transition. The media is quick to trumpet how the financial system and most of the things we know about economics are now defunct, so why is it still making value judgements on those paradigms?"
Why We Started GiftFlow  "Here in New Haven, Connecticut, USA, there are hundreds of people living within one mile of the coffee shop where we wrote this essay who lack access to some of the most fundamental human needs. At the same time, hundreds more are frustrated with the way consumption has taken over their lives and cluttered their homes. The abundance of stuff that is the result of our consumption driven culture could potentially be used to not only help friends share with friends, but to change entire communities."
Please Vote for our SXSW Panel!  "Shareable is a nonprofit online magazine dedicated to promoting sharing as an empowering lifestyle and effective social change strategy. With our partner Latitude Research, we recently launched a survey on the new sharing economy. We hope to discuss the results of the survey at the SXSW Interactive conference next March in a panel entitled, 'The New Sharing Economy.' And identify the obstacles and opportunities to creating a way of life based on sharing supported by innovative businesses."
Enter the Collaborative Consumption Book Review Contest!  "We're excited about the launch of What’s Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption by Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers, a new book that charts a powerful groundswell of traditional sharing, bartering, lending, trading, renting, gifting, and swapping redefined through technology and peer communities. We have teamed up with the authors to give you the chance to win a copy of this important book before its release on September 14th, and reinvent the way book reviews are done."
There's a new culture and economy emerging where sharing and contributing to the common good are the priorities. At Shareable.net, we believe this shift is exactly what's needed to help us overcome the grave social and environmental crises we face today, and perhaps thrive as never before. We hope you'll join the conversation on Shareable, by commenting on articles or even submitting your own articles to jeremy (at) shareable.net! | |
