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A Big List of Sharing Ideas from Green Fest
November 23, 2009 – 6:17 pm | No Comment
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 | No Comment
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. …

Launching the Slow Homes Movement
November 17, 2009 – 5:09 pm | No Comment
Launching the Slow Homes Movement

Shareable.net just published my two-part “Slow Homes Manifesto,” which is really meant to be the starter for a much broader conversation. In the piece, I start to paint a picture of what a slow homes …

Shared Housing is also for the Mechanically Inclined
October 1, 2009 – 7:40 pm | No Comment
Shared Housing is also for the Mechanically Inclined

Today, there was yet another article about sharing in the New York Times – “The Modern Answer to the Commune,” profiling the urban optimists who are forming shared housing around common values, sustainability, and, as …

Shared Housing is also for the Mechanically Inclined
October 1, 2009 – 7:01 pm | No Comment
Shared Housing is also for the Mechanically Inclined

Today, there was yet another article about sharing in the New York Times – “The Modern Answer to the Commune,” profiling the urban optimists who are forming shared housing around common values, sustainability, and, as …

Shared Housing on the Increase in Recessionary Times
August 17, 2009 – 6:34 pm | No Comment

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 …

Sharing in Every Realm of Life
April 13, 2009 – 10:14 pm | No Comment

There are ways to incorporate sharing into almost every realm of life. Here’s a sampling of ways to share:
CAR:
Find a friend or a neighbor who would like to share a car and make a …