As a follow up to John’s spotlight post earlier this week, in which he featured Zipcar, come this week’s Five Friday Facts about car sharing. According to The Car Sharing Network: In 1998, there were 905 members and 69 vehicles in North American car-sharing programs. (See the graph below) As of 2010 (the most recent [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Collaborative Consumption’
Five Friday Facts: Car Sharing
July 20th, 2012 
Eric Wilson Hertz on Demand: Toward Sustainable Transportation
April 18th, 2012 Eric Wilson Can a rental car company really move society toward sustainable transport? Hertz on Demand, a car sharing service from the eponymous rental agency, believes they have devised a way to more appropriately share cars. Currently there are a wealth of these types of services. Occasional Car, eGo Car Share, and ZipCar are some of the [...]
Welcome to the Uniiverse
February 8th, 2012 Eric Wilson Evoking the memory of E.F. Schumacher, the German born economist who wrote Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered, a new service by the name of Uniiverse has launched with the goal of serving as a platform for collaborative living. Schumacher’s vision of local economies moves one step further with Uniiverse, which “is an [...]
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Tags: Bike Sharing, Collaborative Consumption, Triple Bottom Line, Video 
No Comments »Are Cities Really More Sustainable?
February 5th, 2012 Eric Wilson In the most recent Five Friday Facts, Justin provided information on the growth in cities outside the developed world. He points out that increasing populations pose challenges for sustainability. How can we support a global population in denser cities? The argument tends to go that cities are more sustainable since they use less land to [...]
Posted in Behavior, Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Op-Ed, Sustainability Tags: Cars, Collaborative Consumption, Energy, Food, Population Growth, Urban Planning No Comments »“eBay for Rentals” Rentstuff Goes Nationwide
January 30th, 2012 Justin Manger Take a quick look in your closet. Or your attic. Or your garage. If you’re like most Americans, you’ve got tons of “stuff,” a lot of which you use rarely, if at all. It seems like someone, somewhere may be looking for something that you have. It sounds like there may be a trade waiting to [...]
Posted in Business, Conservation, Green Economy, Justin Manger, News, Recylcing Tags: Collaborative Consumption No Comments »Carpooling Grows Up
January 19th, 2012 Eric Wilson When I was a kid, my mom and a bunch of other parents in and around the neighborhood arranged a carpool system whereby each parent would drive a group of kids to school one morning and pick all of us up one afternoon each week. I never really thought much of it other than it [...]
Posted in Behavior, Eric Wilson, Transportation Tags: Collaborative Consumption, iPod/iPhone App, Pollution, United Nations No Comments »How Collaborative Consumption Can Curb Overconsumption
January 9th, 2012 Guest Author Overconsumption not only harms the environment but creates debt, clutter and complexity in our lives. While PhD programs in business continue to strive for production efficiency and cost reductions, the abundance of goods available today provides an opportunity to leverage consumption. Collaborative consumption offers an alternative to ownership-based consumption. It fulfills needs and wants through [...]
Posted in Economics, Guest Authors Tags: Bike Sharing, Collaborative Consumption, Environment No Comments »
