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The Rental Economy 2.0

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Our sharing economy blogger maps his journey from sharing novice, to sharing super user, to sharing entrepreneur. You can help with the next stage. Read more »

Sharing Amidst the Boston Marathon Bombing

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I was near the finish line when the bombs went off. Here's what I experienced. Read more »

The Micropreneur’s Business Case for Airbnb

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If you don't feel like breaking out a speadsheet to evaluate Airbnb as a micro-business, no worries because our sharing lifestyle blogger has done if for you. This is what he found. Read more »

Boston's City Hall Takes It to the Street

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Taking a cue from food trucks and displaying a whole new level of civic engagement, the City of Boston recently sent the new City Hall To Go truck out on the road. Read more »

2013: A Year of Lifestyle Experiments in the Sharing Economy

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Today I’m launching a yearlong life experiment. I’m devoting 2013 to test driving the Sharing Economy by trying out as many services as possible, and with the rigor of an engineer, with spreadsheets and ROIs. Read more »

Are Cities Any Place for Children?

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I was genuinely surprised to come across a website called the Conservative Planner, promising a “A different dose of urban planning” (featured on this week’s digest from one of my favorite sources of urban news and views, Planetizen. Read more »

Trust Each Other, Share the Roads

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Boston Biker has a great little meditation on trust between bicyclists and motorists:

You can in fact trust people these days! In fact we put more trust in total strangers these days than ever before. Read more »

Can the World's Worst Biking City Become the Best?

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Boston is one of the world's worst cities for bicycling. I know; I used to live there.

But don't take my word for it. Bicycling magazine rated Boston worst in the America three times. Read more »

Paris Teaches Boston How to Share Bikes

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Yuka Yoneda has a great little piece at Inhabitat about bike sharing in Paris. The Vélib’ system is the largest bikesharing program in the world--and one of the easiest to use. Read more »
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