Several months ago I stumbled upon the website couch surfing, a worldwide network for making connections between travellers and the local communities they visit. (According to Wikipedia, couch surfing is the practice of moving from one friend’s house to another, sleeping in what ever spare space is available, floor or couch, generally staying a few [...]
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Cheatneutral is a great thought provoking website with a terrific video. However trading cheating is not quite the same as trading carbon emissions. I’m no expert on this, but I thought carbon offsetting is rather like two friends that both heat their homes using oil fired central heating. They both agree they want to cut their [...] 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 [...] Anyone who has ever owned a boat will tell you that the ongoing mooring and maintenance costs can be considerable. One of the major advantages of sharing a boat is sharing these costs. So I read this article in the Wall Street Journal today with a little amusement. Sunk costs details the running costs of superyachts. [...] 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 [...] A couple more interesting websites have popped into the yours2share inbox in the last few days and I thought I’d share them with you. Firstly there is Collaborative Consumption which is publicising the imminent arrival of a new book about sharing and the ways in which people share stuff. The other website is Ecoboom, a friendly [...] Eco Chic followed me on Twitter earlier today and, as you do, I went to see who they are. I’m delighted to see an eco friendly website that doesn’t perpetually ram home the cycling, recycling, hair shirt existence (I know this isn’t fair, but sometimes it can feel that way). You can enjoy the good [...] Whenever I’ve spoken to the Financial Times, or other publications aimed at people earning higher salaries, about yours2share and sharing in general, I’ve tended to get a fairly sniffy response. Either they think their readers would only consider buying outright, or they immediately mentally file all sharing as timeshare. So I was surprised to see this [...] |
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