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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 …

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 …

Sharing ideas from Bioneers: Part 2
November 7, 2009 – 5:17 pm | No Comment
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

“Bioneering” Ideas for Sharing, Part 1
November 3, 2009 – 9:54 pm | No Comment
“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 …

Plant Sharing – Good For Us, Good For Our Plants
October 1, 2009 – 7:36 pm | No Comment
Plant Sharing – Good For Us, Good For Our Plants

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 the Task of Nurturing Our Local Economies
September 27, 2009 – 11:03 pm | No Comment
Sharing the Task of Nurturing Our Local Economies

Yesterday, I moderated a panel discussion and had many great conversations at the Festival for Grassroots Economies, where brilliant ideas seemed to be generated, on average, every 2 seconds. My mind is still spinning from …

Picture the Sharing Revolution, Part 2: Driveways
July 9, 2009 – 12:59 pm | No Comment

Today, the average household has about 2.28 cars. If every household gave up one car and met any transportation gaps with carsharing, carpooling, bicycling, and public transportation, we’d free up a ton of driveway space. Here …

Picture the Sharing Revolution, Part 1: Garages
July 7, 2009 – 12:50 pm | No Comment

A sharing revolution will transform everything about our world — it will transform our streets, our neighborhoods, our work, even our garages. Especially our garages. This is Part One of a series. I’m going to start, …

Why Are Chickens Leading the Sharing Revolution?
June 30, 2009 – 12:33 pm | No Comment

Now that The Sharing Solution is officially released, Emily and I have spent much of the past few weeks talking - on the radio and in bookstores – to people about sharing. I love it when people …