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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. I’m developing a list of all the websites related to sharing I know about on yours2share’s Facebook page. As you’ll see sharing and collaboration take many forms including: private syndicates This is a work in progress. If you know of a [...] I’ve just posted another entry “Another way of sharing the big stuff“ on the Shareable website, a follow on from a piece I wrote last month called “How to share the big stuff“ I’ve just finished reading “What’s Mine Is Yours: How Collaborative Consumption is Changing the Way We Live” by Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers. It’s thought-provoking and highly readable. Many of its peers are the former, but rarely the latter, and for this reason I’ll admit that I was putting off reading it, even though it’s [...] I’ve just added a post to Shareable.net’s excellent website about every aspect of sharing. It is an introductory piece explaining the basics issues to be discussed when you are creating a new private syndicate, called How to share the big stuff. Andy Sirkin, one of the world’s legal experts on sharing, gives his views on fractional ownership. I couldn’t agree more. One of the most important points he makes is the importance of the contract. The people who need a contract are usually those who don’t have one. Simply discussing the arrangement sufficiently to write a contract [...] I was delighted to read about The Business of Sharing in the latest edition of the Economist. There have been several mentions of various sharing ideas recently in the newspaper, but this is the first time I’ve seen a longer look at the subject. I’m also delighted to see its last sentence: The internet may be synonymous [...] |
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