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Latest posts from Janelle’s Sharing Solution Blog

• Trend Toward Car-Sharing Expected to Continue February 3, 2010
  Research firm Frost & Sullivan just issued a new report that says car-sharing is on the rise and expected to grow exponentially over the next five years. Between 2007 and 2009, the number of drivers using car-sharing networks increased 117%... […]
  Emily Doskow
• Renting as Sharing January 28, 2010
  An article in the Boston Globe discusses the growth of new websites like Rentalic, which helps bring together owners and people who need their stuff--renters--to reduce consumption and increase sharing. Janelle Orsi and The Sharing Solution get a mention toward... […]
  Emily Doskow
• New App for Cab Sharing Could Help Travelers Share and Save January 6, 2010
  An article in today's Seattle Times about cab-sharing from Seattle-Tacoma Airport got me wondering why more cities don't facilitate this money-saving and ecologically sound form of transportation. The article features a new application for the iPhone called ridepenguin.com--a free service... […]
  Emily Doskow
• Nanny-Sharing: Finding the Right Fit Can Be Challenging December 28, 2009
  An interesting article in a recent Wall Street Journal describes the author's struggle to find an appropriate nanny-sharing setup for her infant daughter. The challenge is twofold: first, finding a family to share with, and then finding just the right... […]
  Emily Doskow
• Seattle Times Grapples with the Stickiness of Sharing December 23, 2009
  The Seattle Times' Pacific Northwest Magazine just featured a great article about sharing.  Something I love about the article is that writer Carol Ostrom seemed to search far and wide for examples of the most difficult sharing arrangements, and she... […]
  Janelle Orsi
• The Return of the Holiday Party: How Sharing Makes it Happen December 9, 2009
  Yup, it's that time of year again--holiday time. But it's also recession time, and businesses are spending less--and an easy place to cut costs is to reduce the costs of company events. One of the casualties of the recession has... […]
  Emily Doskow
• Chicken and Cow Strike Again November 24, 2009
  In the last few days, Shareable.net posted not one, but TWO great articles related to chicken and cow sharing, entitled How to Share a Cow and How to Share a Chicken (or Two). There's just something about chickens and cows... […]
  Janelle Orsi
• A Big List of Sharing Ideas from Green Fest November 24, 2009
  Here's yet another list of sharing ideas!  We collected these ideas on post-it notes from visitors to our booth at the San Francisco Green Festival. We asked people to tell us their ideas for sharing and ways to create more... […]
  Janelle Orsi
• "Bioneering" Ideas for Sharing, Part 4: The Slow Homes Movement November 19, 2009
  On Tuesday, Shareable.net posted my article about "Slow Homes," and we've already received interesting comments and additional ideas.  Here are more ideas that may or may not have made it into the article.  All of these were collected at this... […]
  Janelle Orsi
• Launching the Slow Homes Movement November 17, 2009
  Shareable.net just published my two-part "Slow Homes Manifesto," which is really meant to be the starter for a much broader conversation. In the piece, I start to paint a picture of what a slow homes movement might look like, beginning... […]
  Janelle Orsi