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How to share the big stuff

I’ve just added a post to Shareable.net’s excellent website about every aspect of sharing.  It is an introductory piece explaining the basics issues to be discussed when you are creating a new private syndicate, called How to share the big stuff.

Car clouds

Daimler (Mercedes Benz), a German car manufacturer is launching a liftsharing pilot  in Ulm, Germany.  In 2008, Daimler and Peugoet started a pilot carsharing scheme again in Germany, the first car manufacturer to offer a car share service.  The new liftsharing operation called car2gether is the first time a car manufacturer has offered a ridesharing service.

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Sharing Law

I recently found a couple of great posts on Shareable.net by Janelle Orsi about how greater sharing will need changes to the law.  Lawyers will also need to develop the contacts and frameworks for many aspects of sharing.

The first piece is called the birth of sharing law and examines the wide range of sharing initiatives [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The same sharing wavelength

Someone on my wavelength!  I feel like yelling from the rooftops!

This post on shareable.net about non profit organisations sharing to cut costs is one (of many) areas that I’ve always thought yours2share could easily facilitate: resources and services used by organisations.  And yet most people don’t even consider this, unless they know people well in [...]

Creating social inclusion

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 [...]