Welcome to Shareable’s growing collection of how-to share posts, which can help you save money, reduce waste, and build community through sharing. In fact, Shareable’s co-founder Neal Gorenflo made new friends and saved $17,000 during his “Year of Living Shareably.” If you try one of the guides, let us know how it goes. Now go forth and share!
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 create a tiny house village
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
Homes on the Range: A Homesteader’s Manifesto
How to Go Solar If You Can’t Put Panels on Your Roof
How to Live Off-the-Grid in a Tiny House
How to Divide Rent Fairly
4 Simple Steps to Start a Move-Out Waste Program
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 Have a Shareable Thanksgiving
How to Dumpster Dive, Eat Free & Fight Waste
How to Glean for Good
The Anarchist’s Guide to Seed Sharing
How to Enjoy a Free, Moveable Feast of Weeds
How to Host a Permablitz
How to Start a Grocery Co-op
How to Be an Urban Fruit Forager
How to Start the AirBnb of Kitchen Incubators in Your Community
How to Host a Great Canning Session
10 Steps Toward an Incredible Edible Town
How to Share Your Meal with Strangers for Thanksgiving
Want a Garden? 7 Easy Ways to Start for Non-Gardeners
10 Shopping Tips from a Farmers’ Market Manager
11 Tips for Running a Successful Food Waste Reduction Campaign
How to Create a Free Farm Stand in Your Community
How to Host a Seed Swap
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
How to Have a Shareable Thanksgiving
Five Easy Ways to Have a Shareable Halloween
How to Create a Walking School Bus in Your Neighborhood
Rethinking Mother’s Day: 6 Shareable Ways to Lighten Mom’s Load
Webinar: How to Start a Childcare Cooperative
5 Tips to Unbrand Your Kids
How to Throw a Holiday Gift Swap
Community
How to Start a Gift Circle
How to Barter, Give, and Get Stuff
How to Start a Tool Library in Your Community
How to Throw a House Concert
How to Start a Really Really Free Market
How to Start Your Own Skillshare
How To Organize a Successful 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
How to Host a House Concert
10 Ways to Create Community in a Suburban ‘Hood
How to Make a Party Box to Share with Your Neighbors
Sunday Soup: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
How to Host a Cash Mob
How to Start a Community Currency
How to Build a Vibrant Open Source Community
How to Start Your Own Free Store
The Anarchist’s Guide to Seed Sharing
How to Make Better Decisions Together
How to Host a Great Sharing Event
How to Build Sustainable Communities – Let’s Collaborate NYC
How to Organize a Citywide Garage Sale
How to Host a Permablitz
How to Change the World by Building a Swarm
How to Start the AirBnb of Kitchen Incubators in Your Community
How to Start a Community Land Trust
10 Steps Toward an Incredible Edible Town
How to Share Your Meal with Strangers for Thanksgiving
How to Build Thriving, Resilient Communities
Learn to Jam: 20 Tips for Making Music with Friends
How to Integrate Gift Circles into Any Community
10 Steps to Running an Offers and Needs Market
How to Create a Free Farm Stand in Your Community
10 Steps to a Healthier Community through Social Marketing
How to Host a Seed Swap
So You Want to Build a Little Free Library?
16 Tips to Crowdfund a Tool Library in Your Town
Cities
How to Organize a ShareFest
Host Guide for the Sharing Cities Map Jam
How to Design Cities to Counter Racism
How to Swap Cities
7 Ways to Reinvent Your City, Burning Man Style
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
How to Be a Citizen Placemaker: Think Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper
How to Map the New Economy in Your City
How to Create Engaging Public Spaces
How to Host a Permablitz
How to Create Abundant Cities
7 Bike Commuting Tips for First Timers
10 Steps Toward an Incredible Edible Town
How to Get the World Walking
5 Ways to Bring More Bike Lanes to Your Community
How to Trick Out Your Bus Stop
How to Turn a Bus Stop into Art
How to Apply Plaza Principles to Transit Hubs
How to Make Transit Hubs Safer for Everyone Using Intersection Repair
How to Create a Network of “Sharing Stops” for Expanded Transit Access
How to Free the Soil by Depaving
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 Encourage Recycling in Your Neighborhood
How to Build a Better Block
10 Ways to Create Community in a Suburban ‘Hood
How to Kick Off a Shareable Spring
Bring Transition Town-Style Sharing Into Your Community
How to Make a Free Things Box
How to Host a Permablitz
10 Steps Toward an Incredible Edible Town
How to Build Thriving, Resilient Communities
How to Negotiate a Communities Benefit Agreement
How to Get the World Walking
How to Design a Shared Backyard
How to Free the Soil by Depaving
How to Set Up a Neighborhood Exchange Box in 4 Easy Steps
How to Start a Social Street
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
How to Make a Community More Walkable
How to Build a Bike-Portable Rolling Cart
How to Share Your Car Like a Pro in 5 Easy Steps
7 Bike Commuting Tips for First Timers
Cycling Etiquette
Five Crucial But Easy Bike Maintenance Tips
How to Share Your Parking Space
Introducing People to Bike Riding (Without Ruining Their Day)
5 Ways to Bring More Bike Lanes to Your Community
14 Ways to Make a Protected Bike Lane
How to Trick Out Your Bus Stop
How to Turn a Bus Stop into Art
How to Apply Plaza Principles to Transit Hubs
How to Make Transit Hubs Safer for Everyone Using Intersection Repair
How to Create a Network of “Sharing Stops” for Expanded Transit Access
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
Hacking the Commons: How to Start a Hackerspace
How to Join the Open Wireless Movement
How to Build a Vibrant Open Source Community
How to Create an eBook the Open Source Way
Four Ways to Escape the NSA Dragnet
How to Choose An Open Source Hardware License
How to Choose An Open Source Software License
7 Ways to Lead ‘Swarmwise’ in a Networked World
10 Steps You Can Take Right Now Against Internet Surveillance
How to Build a FabLab
How Non-programmers Can Contribute to Open Source Projects
10 Ways to Get Started with Open Source
How to Write Your Book Using Linux
How to Integrate Open Collaboration into Your Project
How to Make a Collaborative Video in 7 Steps
How to Convert Facebook Fans to E-mail Subscribers in 5 Easy Steps
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
Four Steps to Being a Great TaskRabbit Poster
Become a Super-Savvy TaskRabbit Poster
A Coworkers Guide to Slaying Procrastination
Five Ways to Cultivate Gratitude at Work
10 Creative Ways to Reuse Extra Office Supplies
How to Share Your Office Space the Right Way
How to Build a Collaborative Hub in a Rural Setting
The 10-Step Guide to a Successful Coworking Space
How to Convert a Business into a Worker-Owned Cooperative
How to Host a Conference Gift Economy Style
10 Lessons from Kenya’s Remarkable Cooperatives
7 Ways to Create a More Democratic Nonprofit
Top 10 Tips for Running a Coworking Space at Home
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
How to Create a Pop-Up Coworking Space
How to Start a Rural Coworking Community
Designing Workspaces for Collaboration
How to Earn $1000s as a Micro-Entrepreneur
Turn Your Coworking Space Into a Sharing Hub
How to Crowdfund Your Campaign or Nonprofit
How to Create a Lively Peer-to-Peer Marketplace
How to Build Trust in the Sharing Economy: Cartoon Edition
How to Start the AirBnb of Kitchen Incubators in Your Community
How to Build a FabLab
How to Finance Your Start-Up on Shareable Terms
10 Surprising Ways to Turbocharge Your Social Venture on Social Media
The 10-Step Guide to a Successful Coworking Space
How to Convert a Business into a Worker-Owned Cooperative
8 Best Practices for Creating a Peer-to-Peer Marketplace
How to Run a Business in the Gift Economy
Top 6 Tax Tips for Sharing Economy Micropreneurs
Top 10 Tips for Running a Coworking Space at Home
Travel
How to Swap Cities
How to Become a Technomad
The Ultimate Guide to Traveling Without Money
Education
Go Tiny for New Year’s Resolutions that Work
How to Share an Education
The Sharing Economy Back to School Survival Guide
Learning Outside the Academy
How to Learn from Open Resources Online
Design It Yourself
Five Ways to Save the Commons on Your Campus
Liberate Education: How to Start a Free School
How to become a lawyer without going to law school
A Guide to Free and Open Source Education
11 Ways to Create a Totally Shareable College Experience
The Commons
How to Design the Commons (or, Elinor Ostrom Explained!)
Five Ways to Save the Commons on Your Campus
The Anarchist’s Guide to Seed Sharing
How to Increase Public Land-Sharing in Austin, Texas
How to Free the Soil by Depaving
How to transform plastic “waste” into a bottle brick
How to Start a Social Street
Money
How to Not Pay Taxes
Top Ten Ways to Save Money Through Sharing
The Quickstart Guide to Peer-to-Peer Lending
How to Start a Community Currency
How to Invest in Good: Energy Efficiency
How to Invest in Good: Community Development Banks and Credit Unions
5 Best Practices for Peer-to-Peer Lending
10 Ways to Democratize the Economy
How to Host a Cash Mob
Miscellaneous
The Top 6 Tips to Sharing & Community for Lifestyle DesignersA Guide to Sharing for Every Season
Go Tiny for New Year’s Resolutions that Work
How to Keep Sharing Safe
Keeps Your Whites Whiter and Your Skin Itchier
How to Make Art Out of Trash
Shareable’s Top 5 Alternatives to Holiday Shopping
Six Ways to Celebrate Earth Day with Permanent Change
How to Start a Repair Cafe
How to Change the World by Building a Swarm
How to Be a Whistleblower and Protect Yourself
How to Date Without Money
How to Start a Reusable Takeout Container Program at Your College
WTF Am I Supposed to Do with My Family on Black Friday?
Six Habits of Highly Grateful People
What’s in your happiness toolbox?
10 Steps to Get Media for Your Sharing Event
4 Simple Steps to Start a Move-Out Waste Program
15 Ways to Create a Summer of Sharing
How to Use the Media for Social Change
How to Throw a Holiday Gift Swap