Articles in Sharing In the News
An article in today’s Seattle Times about cab-sharing from Seattle-Tacoma Airport got me wondering why more cities don’t facilitate this money-saving and ecologically sound form of transportation. The article features a new application for the …
An interesting article in a recent Wall Street Journal describes the author’s struggle to find an appropriate nanny-sharing setup for her infant daughter. The challenge is twofold: first, finding a family to share with, and …
The Seattle Times’ Pacific Northwest Magazine just featured a great article about sharing. Something I love about the article is that writer Carol Ostrom seemed to search far and wide for examples of the …
Yup, it’s that time of year again–holiday time. But it’s also recession time, and businesses are spending less–and an easy place to cut costs is to reduce the costs of company events. One of the …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Once in a while, someone hears about The Sharing Solution and says, “That’s SO California!” To the contrary, sharing is catching on all over the place, as the New York Times reports in an article about sharing between …
The May 20 issue of the East Bay Express weekly newspaper includes an article by Matthew Craggs about The Sharing Solution and its authors.
Berkeley’s own Annie Leonard, the “unapologetic” activist for sustainability who created the online video “The Story of Stuff,” is the subject of an article in the New York Times on May 11, 2009. The 20-minute video, first …
