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New App for Cab Sharing Could Help Travelers Share and Save
January 6, 2010 – 8:39 pm | No Comment
New App for Cab Sharing Could Help Travelers Share and Save

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 …

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 3
November 10, 2009 – 5:23 pm | No Comment
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 …

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

This Sustainability Movement is Brought to You by the Letter C
October 5, 2009 – 9:11 pm | No Comment
This Sustainability Movement is Brought to You by the Letter C

As writers, we are taught to “always avoid all awkward alliteration” and I find myself constantly worried that the letter “C” appears conspicuously, consecutively, and continuously in my sentences – community, cooperation, connection, common. …

Shareable Has Launched! Please Spread the News!
October 2, 2009 – 7:47 pm | No Comment

This is a huge boost for the sharing revolution: Shareable.net has launched!  Shareable is a new online magazine, a breeding ground for sharing ideas, and a space to develop our visions for an innovative, sharing, and …

Shareable Has Launched: A new web community for sharing
October 2, 2009 – 6:53 pm | No Comment
Shareable Has Launched: A new web community for sharing

This is a huge boost for the sharing revolution: Shareable.net has launched!  Shareable is a new online magazine, a breeding ground for sharing ideas, and a space to develop our visions for an innovative, sharing, …

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 …

Social Sustainability Blog Reviews The Sharing Solution
September 30, 2009 – 7:28 pm | No Comment

Really nice shout-out for The Sharing Solution yesterday on “Social Sustainability: Musings on the Social Side of Sustainability.” Thanks Jennifer! And look for a more to come on this blog about Living Green: Communities that Sustain, by …

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 …