Posts Tagged ‘sharing’
Philly Kitchen Share: Sharing Resources
Posted in Models by Kate Archdeacon on January 8th, 2010
Source: Springwise, “Commercial Kitchen for Rent by the Hour”
Philly Kitchen Share is a shared-use commercial kitchen available for hourly rental by caterers, personal chefs, bakers and other food professionals in the Philadelphia area. Created by the founders of PhillyCarShare, the 800-square-foot cooking space actually features two adjoining kitchens, for rent separately or together: one focused on traditional cooking or catering and the other on baking. Together, they’re equipped with stainless steel work tables, convection and standard ovens, commercial ranges and a variety of other tools. Rental prices are USD 39 per hour for one kitchen during off-peak hours, or USD 44 per hour during peak times. Since its launch last winter, business at Philly Kitchen Share has been steady, Philly.com reported, with renters including cooking classes, a vegan baker, a mobile cupcake vendor and a personal chef and caterer.
Tags: kitchen, local action, new systems/services, sharing
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Sharing & efficiency: Taxi 2
Posted in Models by Kate Archdeacon on November 18th, 2009
Source: Springwise
Taxi2 is a beta project from Virgin Atlantic that’s currently being tested in New York and London. Touting the financial and environmental motivations for sharing a cab, Taxi2 is a free service for passengers of any airline. Users simply log on to the Taxi2 site and input their flight and destination details. From there, the system matches them with suitable cab-sharing companions and provides a protected way to contact them, allowing the travellers to decide whether to agree to the match. The system offers a way for female travellers to be matched only with other female travellers; it also protects all personal details. Once travellers agree on a match, Taxi2 even provides a printable and foldable sign to help them find each other at the airport. A mobile version of the technology is coming soon. Much the way carpooling makes sense as a way to reduce the cost and impact of commuting to work, so cab-sharing seems like a no-brainer for all the many travellers heading in the same direction.
Read more on Springwise.
Tags: enabling technologies, new systems/services, sharing, Transport
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Inspiring solutions: Ivili.org
Posted in Movements by Kate Archdeacon on November 6th, 2009
Source: The Ecologist
Image: Shidhulai Boatschool
Ivili.org is a free and evergrowing library of tools, solutions and inspirations for sustainable living. Whether you are looking for advice on sustainable living, such as growing food in your garden using permaculture techniques or generating your electricity in a more ecofriendly way; or if you want ideas and inspirations for community projects that might work in your own area; or are keen to volunteer on an environmental project but don’t know what’s out there; or perhaps you are a funder looking to support essential work in an area you are passionate about, then Ivili is a unique place to start looking for what you need as it only focusses on bringing you sustainable solutions from all over the world. Furthermore, if you are involved in or know of something you think should be on here, all you have to do is sign up and you can add it in.
“There’s a man in China who has invented a solar water heater by lining his roof with glass bottles. Elsewhere permaculture gardeners are greening the deserts of the Dead Sea. A community tourism project in Thailand is helping villagers rebuild their lives after the tsunami. And a group called The Dinner Garden in the US is offering free seeds to anyone looking to grow food to feed themselves.
I could go on and on. I love that there are solar-powered floating schools in Bangladesh. An alternative currency helping the local traders of Brixton. And the ‘Pot-in-Pot’ desert fridge that uses no electricity to keep food cool.
Tags: behaviour change, enabling technologies, new systems/services, sharing
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BuilderScrap: FreeCycle for the Building Industry
Posted in Models by Kate Archdeacon on October 14th, 2009
Source: Springwise
Image: Bryn Pinzgauer via flickr CC
More than 90 million tons of construction and demolition waste are generated each year in England and Wales alone, and at least 13 million of those tons are surplus new materials that could have been reused. Hoping to keep such waste out of landfills, BuilderScrap is a free site for the construction trade that aims to connect builders who have extra materials with those who need them.
UK-based BuilderScrap was established by builders for builders as a way to use up surplus new and high-quality second-hand material in the supply chain. Users begin by registering and then uploading any extra building materials they’d like to sell or give away. Allowable items include timber, doors, floorboards, stair components, joists, tiles, window frames and office furniture, to name just a few. Other users who are interested in an item then contact the relevant user via the BuilderScrap website, which in turn notifies the listing member, who can respond to work out the details. Once the item has exchanged hands, the original listing member then de-lists it from the site.
Read the full article on Springwise.
(What’s Freecycle?)
Tags: new systems/services, Resource, sharing, waste
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No Garden? No problem. New Urban Farming Models
Posted in Movements by Kate Archdeacon on September 7th, 2009
Article by David Tracey, The Tyee News, B.C.
The first odd thing about Cam Macdonald’s Mt. Pleasant lawn is that it isn’t a lawn. It’s a farm. Standing out amid the typical suburban sea of grass patches are his potatoes, carrots, beets, peas, shallots, squash, parsnips and more — enough to have given food to 70 people by the beginning of July.
The second odd thing is that it isn’t even Cam’s yard. It belongs to Heidi Gigler and Jug Sidhu, a non-gardening couple who heard about Cam’s soul search for right livelihood last year and agreed to let him pursue it by turning their turf into food. Does this small but significant act of land karma represent the beginning of a profound challenge to our very notions of private property and home ownership? Or is it just a simple way for a few more people to eat a little more food from where they live — a driving force behind the soaring popularity of urban agriculture? In any case, it’s working. Cam is on his way to what could become a career, and the couple are thrilled with the look and taste of their front yard. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: community, new systems/services, sharing, urban agriculture
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Sustainable House Day
Posted in Models by Kate Archdeacon on September 2nd, 2009
Source: Climate Action Calendar
Sustainable House Day is on again!
Sunday 13th September 2009. Houses open between 10am and 4pm
This is the 8th year of the successful Sustainable House Day – where houses across Australia are opened to show you how to live more sustainably.
And this year it’s FREE!
Environmental awareness – or being ‘green’ – is great, but putting it into practice around your own home is the best contribution you can make to living in harmony with our planet.
Find out direct from home owners who’ve put sustainable living into practice, about reducing waste around your home, saving water, natural home heating and cooling and more.
http://www.sustainablehouseday.com/
Tags: education, houses, sharing, Urban Design and Built Form
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Naked Streets, Shared Spaces
Posted in Models by Kate Archdeacon on August 14th, 2009
Sources: GoingSolar, Enchanted Isle, Times Online and Sydney Morning Herald
Image via streetsblog
Hans Monderman (1945 – 2008) pioneered the concept of the “naked street” by removing all the things that were supposed to make it safe for the pedestrian – traffic lights, railings, kerbs and road markings. He thereby created a completely open and even surface on which motorists and pedestrians “negotiated” with each other by eye contact.
Monderman worked tirelessly to prove that such roads are safer and, more than 25 years after his first experiment in the Netherlands, streets all over the world are being redesigned to the Monderman “shared space” model. He passionately believed that segregating cars and pedestrians was wrong and an imposition from the state. Instead, he claimed a natural interaction between the driver and the pedestrian would create a more civilised environment.
His maxim was: “If you treat drivers like idiots, they act as idiots. Never treat anyone in the public realm as an idiot, always assume they have intelligence.”
Source: TimesOnline
Tags: sharing, Transport, Urban Design and Built Form
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New Systems and Services: from selling furniture to selling space
Posted in Models by Kate Archdeacon on June 25th, 2009
Source: Eva Hagberg, Metropolis Magazine, Newsletter 06/2009
Image via Workspring
Part of the shift towards sustainable practices includes sharing resources rather than owning them outright. Systems and Services design philosophy has long proposed shared office spaces as part of the new models of consumption. Workspring is a successful US business model which is about to expand to its second site.
Tags: new systems/services, sharing, Urban Design and Built Form
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Invitation to the Sustainable Cities Round Table – Sustainable Sharing
Posted in Events by fedwards on February 9th, 2009
When: 6-8pm Thursday 26 February 2009
Where: Shed 4 Dock 4 North Wharf Road, Docklands VIC 3006 AUSTRALIA. Map: 2E 7D
RSVP essential to: rsvp@ sustainablemelbourne.com by 20 Febuary 2009
What: It may seem strange that we’ve highlighted sharing as a sustainability issue. Yet as the West has become more industrialised we’ve also grown more individualised producing more products per person. At this Sustainable Cities Round Table we explore how we can learn to share again. Topics include shared spaces, such as composts and co-houses; shared products and materials, such as the renewed retro world of no longer daggy hand-me-downs, and shared services, such as permablitzes and group purchasing power.
Speakers include:
Kate Pears, My Sisters Wardrobe
Adam Grubb, Permablitz
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Tags: Events, networks, sharing, Sustainable Cities Round Table, urban sustainability
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