I recently found a couple of great posts on Shareable.net by Janelle Orsi about how greater sharing will need changes to the law. Lawyers will also need to develop the contacts and frameworks for many aspects of sharing.
The first piece is called the birth of sharing law and examines the wide range of sharing initiatives [...]
Following up from an earlier blog post about RelayRides, there is an interesting article in the Economist today about peer to peer car sharing. As well as RelayRides in the US, there is another operator WhipCar operating a similar peer to peer car rental service. I’ll have to try it out. And I had to [...]
Most sharing arrangements quickly find they need some kind of reservation system so that people can easily see who and when partners are using the shared asset. If they have an arrangement where free time can be booked on a first come basis, then they need the system to enable them to make the reservation [...]
Here is another great article from shareable.net (would you share a car with a stranger?) outlines some of the ground breaking car sharing schemes being tried out in the US (astonishing really, as prising the average American out of his SUV isn’t something most of us would attempt, let alone ask him to let someone [...]
I’ve blogged before about shared ownership of cars and car clubs, but saw these articles on shareable.net: How to share a car, part 1 and How to share a car part 2. The articles are written by Janelle Orsi the author of a new book The Sharing Solution. The first part broadly covers car clubs, [...]
When I started yours2share, I didn’t realise that I was starting a social enterprise, I just wanted to help people share stuff. As the number of private syndicates that were helped by yours2share increased, I also became aware that if as the number of partners in a private syndicates increases substantially, it becomes a [...]
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 [...]
Sustrans , the sustainable transport charity, is running a novel variation on the “be good” day, by holding a “Change your world” week from the 29th June to the 4th July. In this case the form of “being good” is agreeing to swap a car journey for another means of transport (walking, cycling or public [...]
I’ve finally managed to get yours2share‘s video onto YouTube!
If you want to see it in “high definition”, well much better quality, click here.