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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 [...]

February 9th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: environment, sharing | Leave a comment

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 [...]

January 22nd, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: environment, sharing, template contract | Leave a comment

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 [...]

January 17th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: environment, fractional ownership, sharing | Leave a comment