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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Here is a great case study on shareable.net about sharing a house written by Janelle Orsi, attorney. The people are based in California, but the advice applies anywhere.
I’ve written before about sharing houses, in Suffolk and in Streatham.
To make this work you do need to put in considerable thought, discussion and negotiation at the beginning, [...]
I’ve just stumbled over two great websites based in the US devoted to helping people share and showing them how to do it: the sharing solution and shareable.net.
The sharing solution is run by Attorney Janelle Orsi & Attorney Emily Doskow and is devoted to showing people how sharing can not only be economically advantageous, [...]
I’d heard of cow sharing, where people pay for the purchase and upkeep of a whole, half or quarter of a cow which is then managed by a farmer, and this has always seemed such an easy idea.
I’d love to find someone to keep a chicken for me alongside their other chickens and as we [...]