How To Share
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Table of Contents
Get Started
Housing
Food
Family
Community
Cities
Neighborhoods
Transportation
Technology
Work
Entrepreneurship
Travel
Education
The Commons
Money
Miscellaneous
Get Started
Six Ways to Start Sharing
Shareable's Top 20 'How To' Share Guides
Top Ten Ways to Save Money through Sharing
The Gen Y Guide to Collaborative Consumption
Housing
How to Start a Housing Co-op
How to Share a House: A Case Study
How to Stop Foreclosure through Homesharing
How to Start Your Own Waterpod
Six Ways to Stay Warm without Central Heating
Panning for Gold: How to Find and Keep a Housemate
How to Compost for Cohousing
Food
How to Share a Chicken (or Two)
How to Raise Urban Chickens
How to Start a Farmers' Market
How to Share a Cow
How to Share a Vegetable Garden
How to Start a Crop Mob
How to Reinvent the Potluck
The Shareable Feast
How to Host a Stranger Dinner
How Hosting a Babyfood Swap Saved My Sanity and Fed My Child
Top 10 Tips for Starting a Campus Food Coop
How to Grow a Garden on Your Balcony
How To Host a MamaBake Food Swap Session
Ingredients for a Successful Urban Kitchen Garden
Food Swaps: Trading Tasty Treats Keeps Culinary Boredom at Bay
How to Share Land
How to Start a Crop Swap
How to Glean for Good
Family
How I Avoided Holiday Shopping Through a Donation Exchange
How to Share a Nanny
How Hosting a Babyfood Swap Saved My Sanity and Fed My Child
How to Start a Nature Group for City Kids
How to Share an Education
How to Throw a Toy Exchange
How to Teach Your Kid to Share
Make Your Holiday a Shared Affair
How to Design Family-Friendly Transit
How to Share School Transportation—and Why
How to Raise Non-Competitive Kids
DIY 'I Do': How to Plan a Shareable Wedding
Five Easy Ways to Have a Shareable Halloween
Community
How to Barter, Give, and Get Stuff
How to Start a Really Really Free Market
How to Start Your Own Skillshare
Eight Ways to Share Your Stuff with the World
How to Share a Chicken (or Two)
How to Start a Farmers' Market
How to Throw a Community Swap Meet
How to Share Time Through Timebanking
How to (Legally) Open a Gift (Economy)
How to Share an Education
How to Host a Stranger Dinner
The Shareable Feast
How to Reinvent the Potluck
How to Turn a Payphone Into a Library
How to Start a Neighborhood Work Group
How to Start a Critical Mass Ride
How to Create a Successful Collective
How to Start a Crop Mob
How to Create Your Own Seed Lending Library
How To Host a MamaBake Food Swap Session
How to Throw a Succesful Yard Sale
How to Share in a Dialogue Despite Differences
How to Share the Big Stuff
How to Manage Usage of a Shared Asset
How To Share Land
Ingredients for a Successful Urban Kitchen Garden
Food Swaps: Trading Tasty Treats Keeps Culinary Boredom at Bay
How to Start a Revolution
How to Stage a Clothes Swap
How to Stage a Media Swap
How to Map Assets & Expose Real Wealth for Shared Futures
Cultivating a Sustainable Community
Cities
How to Design Cities to Counter Racism
How to Swap Cities
How to Create Abundant Cities
12 Nifty Ideas to Improve Your City
How Tax-Sharing Can Save Cities
How to Design Family-Friendly Transit
How to Create a Bike Corridor
How to Be an Urban Change Agent, Shareable Style
How to Start Participatory Budgeting in Your City
Ingredients for a Successful Urban Kitchen Garden
How to Fall in Love With the Place You Live
12 Nifty Ideas to Improve Your City
Neighborhoods
How to Plant a Habitat Garden at the Local Playground
How to Start a Neighborhood Work Group
How to Build a Better Neighborhood
How to Create Your Own Seed Lending Library
How to Make a Street Carfree
How to Turn a Payphone Into a Library
How to Help Your Neighbors Go Solar
How to Design a Neighborhood for Happiness
How to Build a Better Block
Transportation
How to Be a Carfree Family
How to Share Your Car with a Stranger
How to Share a Car (Part I)
How to Share a Car (Part II)
How to Make a Street Carfree
How to Design Family-Friendly Transit
How to Share School Transportation—and Why
How to Carpool with Strangers
How to Improve Bike Signage
How to Create a Bike Corridor
How to Drive Your Car with an iPhone
The A-B-C of Winter Biking
12 Nifty Ideas to Improve Your City
How to Run a Bike Valet
How to Become a Tech Nomad
How to Start Your Own Car Sharing Program
Technology
How to Help Your Neighbors Go Solar
How Social Media Shapes Offline Reading
How to Find Jobs Through Social Media
How to Start Your Own Waterpod
How to Drive Your Car with an iPhone
Keeping New Year's Resolutions With Social Media
I Made An iPad eBook in One Weekend (And You Can Too!)
How to Set Up An Open Mesh Network in Your Neighborhood
How to Share an eBook
How to Learn from Open Resources Online
How to Run a Successful Crowdfunding Campaign
Work
How Nonprofits Can Share Down Their Costs (Part I)
How Nonprofits Can Share Down Their Costs (Part II)
How to Find Jobs Through Social Media
How to Hire for a Democratic Company
How to Share Your Job Search
How to Promote New Ideas at Work
How to Design a Workspace for Sharing
How to Foster Passion on the Job
How to Live Your Values at Work
How to Foster Dialogue at Work
How to Vote for Your Boss
How to Decentralize Your Company Structure
How to Democratize Corporate Ownership
How to Make Employees Feel Secure During Tough Times
How to be Open with Financial Information
How Companies Can Help Balance Work and Life
How Can Companies Promote Pay Transparency?
How Big Companies Can Embrace Everyone's Ideas
How to Jelly: A Guide to Casual Coworking
How to Share a Job
How Gen Y Can Create Its Own Stimulus Package
How To Convince Your Boss To Let You Cowork
Entrepreneurship
How to Launch Your Startup Idea for Less than $5K
Five Ways Crowdsourcing Can Accelerate Your Start-Up
How to Swap Cities
How to Start a Worker Co-op
How to Run a Bike Valet
How to Make a Franchise Shareable
How to Create Your Own Green Job
5 Essential Tools for Starting a Coworking Space
How to Create a Pop-Up Coworking Space
How to Start a Rural Coworking Community
Designing Workspaces for Collaboration
Turn Your Coworking Space Into a Sharing Hub
Travel
How to Swap Cities
How to Become a Technomad
Education
Go Tiny for New Year's Resolutions that Work
How to Share an Education
Learning Outside the Academy
How to Learn from Open Resources Online
Design It Yourself
The Commons
How to Design the Commons (or, Elinor Ostrom Explained!)
Money
How to Not Pay Taxes
Top Ten Ways to Save Money through Sharing
Miscellaneous
The Top 6 Tips to Sharing & Community for Lifestyle Designers
How to Manage Usage of a Shared Asset
A Guide to Sharing for Every Season
Go Tiny for New Year's Resolutions that Work
How to Keep Sharing Safe
