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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 [...] Looking back at 2011, one the biggest areas of change has been sharing cars (sharing the ownership of cars rather than the equally important lift sharing). Cars represent a huge opportunity for sharing because of the number of very expensive assets which spend the vast proportion of their time unused. Shared ownership of cars [...] Over the last five years there has been an increase in tenants letting accommodation on a Monday to Friday basis. Usually these are people who work away from home and had become fed up with living in hotels or bed and breakfasts all week. There are some major advantages for Monday to Friday landlords compared with [...] 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. We’ve a great new boat sharing case study, Andrew A has sold a share in his Fairline Phantom 48 based in Mallorca, to create a new private syndicate using Net Lawman’s contract templates. Read about it here. The second of two posts about ways that sharing can help people find suitable accomodation solutions, specificaly looking at: Homeshares – see previous post Housing co-operatives For those who want to move on from the house/flat/home share scenario, who need more space and somewhere long term to live, and who may have children too, the [...] Many people are struggling with housing costs, whether they want to rent or buy. Students and recent graduates are having a particularly hard time. If they want to buy in the future they need to save, but rents are so high that this can be impossible. Families with young children are also finding it difficult [...] After many months hard work, we’ve now launched the new yours2share website. Please have a look! Many thanks to Ruth Cheesley of Virya Technologies for her help with this Joomla based system. The new yours2share has a forum and directory dedicated to everything related to private syndicates and all things sharing. Over the next few weeks I [...] |
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