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Last night’s edition of Channel 4′s Location, location, location with Kirsty Allsopp and Phil Spencer was interesting as it showed three friends buying a property in London together. What I particularly liked was this was a sensible look at the shared option, with the neither the pros or cons sensationalised, just simply laid out. It struck [...] Sharing, or “Collaborative Consumption” as it is often now called, really started to gain traction in 2011. I started yours2share in 2006 and frankly most people thought I was insane. Now I hear about new sharing related websites daily and it seems like all my friends and relations are busy Couchsurfing, AirBnB-ing, freecycling, car clubbing, [...] Last night I went to Transition Norwich’s third birthday celebration to hear Rob Hopkins of the Transition Network speak. He’s a very good speaker and the messages were clear: Sustainability makes sense, however you look at the future Interesting interview of Lauren Anderson, Innovation Director at Collaborative Consumption, a hub dedicated to swapping, sharing, bartering, trading and renting, by Andrew Keen of TechCrunch, a high tech magazine website, as she explains why collaborative consumption could be as significant as the Industrial Revolution. |
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