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What's mine is yours

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 [...]

Peer 2 peer car sharing in the Economist

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 [...]

Relayrides & car sharing

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 [...]