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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 [...]

Growth does not equal happiness

I read with interest this post on the monbiot blog I’ve recently discovered about an interview with Lord Turner in the Guardian.  Lord Turner is the head of the Financial Services Authority and is quoted as saying: “All the evidence shows that beyond the sort of standard of living which Britain has now achieved, extra [...]

Sharing taxis

This post on the sharing solution caught my eye: New App for Cab Sharing Could Help Travelers Share and Save.

I’m reminded of a time many years ago (long before yours2share time) when I used to stagger back on Friday night to south west London after a night out in town.  I often caught the last [...]

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 [...]

Appleshare

I was flicking through one of out local magazines the other day and noticed an advert for Apple Sharing.  I’d never seen this before and as with everything to do with sharing, I had to find out more.

Beccles in Suffolk has an Apple Share scheme as part of its Sustainable Beccles umbrella.  This encourages people [...]

yours2share on YouTube

I’ve finally managed to get yours2share’s video onto YouTube!

If you want to see it in “high definition”, well much better quality, click here.

yours2share on video

A couple of weeks ago I went along to a filming day held by StreamExchange and made a short three minute video about yours2share.  Once I’d recovered from the shock of seeing myself talk, I’m was pleased with the results.  The interviewer was Caroline Oldrey, who was until recently a news reporter with ITV Anglia, [...]

The Story of Stuff

On my wanderings around the web this afternoon I found this great website The Story of Stuff.  It’s worth spending the 20 minutes watching the video here: it explains a complex subject well and the main points it gets over are important to us all.  I could quibble with one or two facts that don’t [...]

Share a pig

Saddleback pig

A couple of weeks ago I met up with some old friends for a spot of point to pointing down at Hackwood Park, near Basingstoke.  In amongst the conversation, someone mentioned that they were sharing a pig.  So I had to find out more.  It is a private arrangement between friends.  The pig [...]