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Eco sites & sharing

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

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 [...]

Floating offices

Not a straightforward sharing proposition, but these novel floating offices could enable people to make much greater use of marina space. And what a great place to have an office.

I’m busily working on my new office for yours2share at the moment and offices with a great view are close to my heart. Fortunately yours2share’s new [...]

Meet me @ WREF

yours2share is taking a stand at the WREF (Women, Research and Enterprise Forum) Showcase being held at the Forum in Norwich on Wednesday 17th March from 10am til 4pm.

The Showcase is part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science, held in collaboration with the National Science and Engineering Week and the John Innes Centenary.

If you’d [...]

FT tries boat sharing

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 [...]

Weird stuff

This post Why Our Bright Green Futures Will Be Weirder Than We Think on the WorldChanging website makes interesting reading.

….I’ve often paraphrased Bucky Fuller that we shouldn’t aim for beautiful solutions, but if our solutions aren’t beautiful once we’ve found them, they’re probably not fully developed. Now I think as well that if our solutions [...]

Facebook Fans

After much fiddling last night, I managed to get the Facebook fan box into the widget on my blog. So now you can sign up to be a fan of the yours2share page on Facebook. Please do!

Just click “Become a fan”.

Facebook has improved greatly recently, it used to drive me mad every time I touched [...]

More about sharing cabs

I posted a couple of weeks ago about how I shared taxis in south west London many years ago, prompted by a post on the Sharing Solution. Shareable.net has a further post about taxis sharing and mentions an iphone application called ridepenguin which is designed to enable this. Great step forward. So far it is [...]

Car sharing and car clubs

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, [...]

Sharing, community and quality of life

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 [...]