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Car Sharing on Campus: A Natural Fit for Chico State and Others
August 26, 2009 – 7:12 pm | Comments Off

California State University at Chico announced this week that students, faculty, and staff will soon be able to participate in car sharing through a new partnership withZipcar. Participants will pay a small initial membership fee and …

Shared Housing on the Increase in Recessionary Times
August 17, 2009 – 6:34 pm | 2 Comments

This morning’s San Francisco Chronicle sports a front page article with the headline “Rooms for rent a sign of the times.” The article discusses the financial advantages to sharing, including, for some people, the ability to stay …

Trade Ya! My Tractor for Your Alpaca
August 7, 2009 – 2:52 pm | Comments Off

I don’t even know where to begin. There has been an explosion of new websites where people can trade, borrow, lend, share, and barter all kinds of stuff and services. I started to browse them …

Picture the Sharing Revolution, Part 3: Our Streets
August 4, 2009 – 1:55 pm | Comments Off
Picture the Sharing Revolution, Part 3: Our Streets

What will our world look like when the sharing revolution takes to the streets? First of all, in a world where there are carsharing programs, neighbors sharing cars, carpooling, dynamic ridesharing programs, bikesharing, and better public transportation, each …

Bike-Sharing Comes to San Francisco–Temporarily
August 3, 2009 – 1:54 pm | 2 Comments

Over the past weekend, shared bicycles were available in San Francisco’s beautiful Golden Gate Park. A state-of-the-art pay station spent five hours in the park on Sunday, allowing riders to swipe a credit card or …

Upcoming Sharing Solution Events
August 2, 2009 – 1:20 pm | One Comment

Come hear authors Janelle Orsi and Emily Doskow discuss ways we can live more sustainably by sharing resources of all kinds – sharing a car with a neighbor, sharing yard space for food cultivation, starting …