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A Big List of Sharing Ideas from Green Fest
November 23, 2009 – 6:17 pm | Comments Off
A Big List of Sharing Ideas from Green Fest

Here’s yet another list of sharing ideas! We collected these ideas on post-it notes from visitors to our booth at the San Francisco Green Festival. We asked people to tell us their ideas for …

Sharing Ideas from Bioneers, Part 4: Slow Homes
November 19, 2009 – 5:40 pm | 2 Comments
Sharing Ideas from Bioneers, Part 4: Slow Homes

On Tuesday, Shareable.net posted my article about “Slow Homes,” and we’ve already received interesting comments and additional ideas. Here are more ideas that may or may not have made it into the article. …

Tip: Sharing Food and Making Friends
November 12, 2009 – 11:28 pm | Comments Off
Tip: Sharing Food and Making Friends

Here’s a great idea for sharing food in community with others: get a bunch of people, many of whom are strangers to one another, together in a kitchen and give them cooking assignments in small …

Sharing Ideas from Bioneers: Part 3
November 10, 2009 – 5:23 pm | Comments Off
Sharing Ideas from Bioneers: Part 3

At our “Cooperative Living and Sharing Brainstorm Booth” at the Bioneers Conference, we also asked people to tell us: “What are barriers to community building?”
Here are some of the answers:

Petty issues that get people …

Plant Sharing Helps Your Garden and Community Grow
November 8, 2009 – 7:31 pm | 3 Comments
Plant Sharing Helps Your Garden and Community Grow

Every year, my mom, an avid gardener, puts out the word to her friends and colleagues that she is having a massive plant give-away. Her garden seems to get more vibrant every year, but I …

Sharing ideas from Bioneers: Part 2
November 7, 2009 – 5:17 pm | 2 Comments
Sharing ideas from Bioneers: Part 2

We asked attendees of the Bioneers conference to write down an answer to “What Do You Share?” Here is what they said:
* Tools
* Plants

Grocery Shopping in the Age of Sharing
November 4, 2009 – 6:39 pm | 2 Comments
Grocery Shopping in the Age of Sharing

EcoSalon posted a nice piece today: “Sharing: It’s not just nice, it’s necessary.”  I love the “rundown of the 15 coolest sharing concepts.”

Coincidentally, I know the journalist who wrote the piece, Vanessa Barrington, because we …

“Bioneering” Ideas for Sharing, Part 1
November 3, 2009 – 9:54 pm | Comments Off
“Bioneering” Ideas for Sharing, Part 1

The weekend before last, I shared a “Cooperative Living and Sharing Brainstorm Booth” with Regenerative Real Estate at the incredible Bioneers Conference. Our booth featured a coffee table and chairs in a circle, and …