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View ArticleIs Ridesharing Killing San Francisco's Taxi Industry?
Lyft's ridesharing vehicles are known by their pink stick-on mustaches. (Lyft via Kansas City Business Journal)
View ArticleHow to Celebrate #RideSharingDay
Ridesharing, in its many forms, is a fun and practical aspect of the sharing economy. It's a way to reduce your carbon footprint, meet like-minded people, save money, and support new and innovative...
View ArticleHow to Create a Network of "Sharing Stops" for Expanded Transit Access
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View ArticleDebating the Sharing Economy
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View ArticleCabby-owned Taxi Cooperatives on the Rise
Top image: Union Cab workers in Portland, Oregon. Photo credit: NW Labor Press.
View ArticleLa'Zooz: The Decentralized, Crypto-Alternative to Uber
What makes a lot of people uncomfortable about a phenomenon like Uber, when you get right down to it, is how it is owned. As in other mega-Internet companies, a small number of owners poised to take...
View ArticleCompare and Share: The One-Stop Sharing Marketplace
The People Who Share, a UK organization working to mainstream sharing, recently launched a new sharing marketplace called Compare and Share. Being touted as the world’s one-stop shop for the sharing...
View ArticleThe Sharing Economy Needs a Public Option
Photo credit: jonathan mcintosh / Foter / CC BY-SA. Article cross-posted from Al Jazeera America.
View Article7 Apps that Will Change the Way You Travel Forever
It all started with a bet. In July 2014, two friends and I launched The Sharing Bros project and set off for a crazy adventure. We traveled from Vancouver, Canada to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil using only...
View ArticleDisrupting the Disrupters: 3 Cities Work to Design Universal Taxi Apps
Photo credit: zak mc / Foter / CC BY-SA. Article cross-posted from the Shared Use Mobility Center blog.
View ArticleThe Power of Peers Inc: a Q&A with Robin Chase
Robin Chase is a collaborative consumption pioneer whose work in the field predates even the term “sharing economy.” As co-founder and the first CEO of Zipcar, the largest car sharing platform in the...
View ArticleStreets and Sidewalks Should Be Used to Improve Our Health
Article cross-posted from MobilityLab.org. Written by Chris Hamilton. Photo: Dylan Passmore. Streets and sidewalks take up 25 to 50 percent of a typical U.S. city’s land. New York City, for example, is...
View ArticleHow Platform Cooperativism Can Accelerate Sustainable Consumption
Weaver Street Market in Carrboro, North Carolina, a multistakeholder cooperative combining the interests of workers and consumers. Credit: Weaver Street Market.
View ArticleThe New Era of Economic Abundance
Recently, I had the privilege of meeting Shareable’s founder, Neal Gorenflo, at the Collaborative Economy Conference in San Francisco. Thanks to Ranan Lachman, the Founder of the Sharing Economy Forum...
View ArticlePlatform Cooperativism Conference Disrupts Silicon Valley's Disruptions
“Silicon Valley loves a good disruption. So let's give them one.”
View ArticleSharing City Seoul Through the Eyes of an Urban Sociologist
Editor’s note: Monica Bernardi is an urban sociologist and a PhD candidate in “Quality of Life in the Information Society” at the Milano-Bicocca University (Italy). Her research focuses on sharing...
View ArticleThink Tank SUMC Releases Shared Mobility Guide for Cities
The Shared-Use Mobility Center (SUMC) recently released its new Shared-Use Mobility Reference Guide. Over the course of 44 pages, the group outlines their research findings in the areas of bikesharing,...
View ArticleInterviewed: John Thackara on How To Thrive In The Next Economy
John Thackara is a writer and event producer who has spent a lifetime searching for stories about the practical steps taken by communities to realize a sustainable future. He writes about these stories...
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