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Sharing in action

Do you share a house, car, motorhome, boat, aircraft dog, horse or anything else? I’m always looking for examples of sharing in action to blog about on yours2share and, if they are really good and two or more partners are willing to be interviewed, for case studies.  If you are happy to tell me about [...]

Sharing allotments on Pigeon Watch

yours2share gets mentions and links from many and varied forum posts, but I had to have a look at this forum when I saw the link on the stats pages: PigeonWatch.  The forum entry is actually about sharing allotments, but I was intrigued to find this forum devoted to pigeon shooting.   With nearly a million [...]

Social rental websites

This article about rental websites in the Boston Globe came to my attention today.  I’m pleased to find out about a few more rental websites, I knew about Rentalic but there are several mentioned that I hadn’t heard about before.

As the article says:

But the biggest challenge may be cultural. Americans are accustomed to having many [...]

Growth does not equal happiness

I read with interest this post on the monbiot blog I’ve recently discovered about an interview with Lord Turner in the Guardian.  Lord Turner is the head of the Financial Services Authority and is quoted as saying: “All the evidence shows that beyond the sort of standard of living which Britain has now achieved, extra [...]

Sharing taxis

This post on the sharing solution caught my eye: New App for Cab Sharing Could Help Travelers Share and Save.

I’m reminded of a time many years ago (long before yours2share time) when I used to stagger back on Friday night to south west London after a night out in town.  I often caught the last [...]

The same sharing wavelength

Someone on my wavelength!  I feel like yelling from the rooftops!

This post on shareable.net about non profit organisations sharing to cut costs is one (of many) areas that I’ve always thought yours2share could easily facilitate: resources and services used by organisations.  And yet most people don’t even consider this, unless they know people well in [...]

Sharing optimism

Two websites have come to my attention recently that make me feel optimistic about the future, because both websites are so positive about how we can work together and make all kinds of ordinary things in life better.  In many respects they share the same values as yours2share.  The first is the Plunkett Foundation and [...]

Creating social inclusion

Yet another article about how to design for social cohesion on shareable.net’s excellent website has got me thinking.

I’ve always hated the stupidity of planners’ love of zoning: separating work, home, retail and play so that everyone has to travel to do the basic things of life.  This has created suburban mazes where to only winner [...]