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Trend Toward Car-Sharing Expected to Continue
February 3, 2010 – 9:14 pm | Comments Off
Trend Toward Car-Sharing Expected to Continue

Research firm Frost & Sullivan just issued a new report that says car-sharing is on the rise and expected to grow exponentially over the next five years. Between 2007 and 2009, the number of drivers …

New App for Cab Sharing Could Help Travelers Share and Save
January 6, 2010 – 8:39 pm | 3 Comments
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 …

Nanny-Sharing: Finding the Right Fit Can Be Challenging
December 28, 2009 – 8:08 pm | 2 Comments
Nanny-Sharing: Finding the Right Fit Can Be Challenging

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 …

Seattle Times Grapples with the Stickiness of Sharing
December 23, 2009 – 8:00 pm | 5 Comments
Seattle Times Grapples with the Stickiness of Sharing

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 …

The Return of the Holiday Party: How Sharing Makes it Happen
December 9, 2009 – 7:33 pm | 3 Comments
The Return of the Holiday Party: How Sharing Makes it Happen

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 …

Chicken and Cow Strike Again
November 24, 2009 – 7:24 pm | Comments Off
Chicken and Cow Strike Again

In the last few days, Shareable.net posted not one, but TWO great articles related to chicken and cow sharing, entitled How to Share a Cow and How to Share a Chicken (or Two). There’s just …

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 …

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 …

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