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Trends for 2009

I keep an eye on Trendhunter and was watching out for their trends for 2009, as usual I think they will be interestingly accurate.

In particular, they predict increasing use of urban gardens for fruit and veg, which chimes with yours2share’s recent new land share category.

Other trends strike a chord, or make me smile. “Ageless inspiration” [...]

Jewellery club

I came across another novel sharing site last week, Blubangle is a jewellery club.  For a fee, starting from £14.99 a month, members can use jewellery up to a given “gems” or points value, which when they return it, enables them to take out further jewellery up to the same “gems” value.  The concept is [...]

Converting cars to wombats

I found another interesting car club last week called Wombat car club.  As well as developing car clubs in the Colchester area, Wombat also enables people to convert an existing car to a car club.

There are three stages to this:

1 Finding local people to join in and share your car.  Wombat help with the marketing [...]