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How to Throw a Successful Yard Sale

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By gosh, there's nothing better than a good sale. And I'm not talking about shopping. Selling off your stuff can be surprisingly fun, liberating, and profitable. It's hard work, though. Read more »

How to Design a Neighborhood for Happiness

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Biology is destiny, declared Sigmund Freud.
But if Freud were around today, he might say “design is destiny”—especially after taking a stroll through most American cities. Read more »

How To Share an eBook

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There are plenty of advantages to eBooks--portability, accessibility, cloud-synced annotation--but there are a number of things that they don’t do nearly as well as print books. Read more »

Top 10 Tips for Starting a Campus Food Co-op

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Our friends at CoFed just launched a campaign to create ethically-sourced, cooperatively-run sustainable food storefronts and cafés on college campuses nationwide. Read more »

How to Share the Big Stuff

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Some of the most valuable assets in private ownership such as holiday homes, second (or third or fourth) cars, boats, motorhomes and horses are also unfortunately often an insane waste of resources. Read more »

How to Share a Job

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There’s something very cool happening in the workplace — people are re-claiming their lives. They’re creating a more humane work/life balance, they’re spending less time in the office, and, yet, their careers are thriving. Read more »

The Gen Y Guide to Collaborative Consumption

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When our parents graduated from college, the bachelor’s degree was a coveted badge of honor. It gave applicants instant cred (and usually a larger paycheck) no matter what the job. Read more »

How to Run a Bike Valet

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“This is not complicated,” says Kash. “It’s like a coat-check for bikes. Read more »

DIY Car Sharing: How to Start Your Own Car-Sharing Program

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Car sharing is not only a good idea; it’s a ridiculously smart use of resources. Car owners generally pay between $3000 and $10,000 per year to own a car that sits and takes up space for 22 to 23 hours per day. Read more »

Free the Economy. Live Shareably.

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The new sharing economy recognizes that we each have a pivotal role to play in creating a world that encourages creativity, innovation, and a more free, open, and participatory culture. Read more »
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 Building Youth and Student Power for a New Economy

Trust and Community

This series explores trust and community, two vital ingredients for the sharing economy. Shareable delves into the topic with a mix of thought leadership, storytelling, and how-tos. The series includes independently developed feature stories and blog posts from Shareable and quarterly op-eds from the sponsor (see Shareable's sponsorship policy).

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The series is supported by a donation from TrustCloud. TrustCloud helps you own the trust you’ve built online. By gathering data from multiple sources and applying proprietary algorithms, TrustCloud builds a snapshot of who you are – and how trustworthy you are – based on your behavior with sharing economy partners like Airbnb, RelayRides, and even Craigslist. Find out more at www.trustcloud.com.

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