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Sharing is a basic component of human interaction, and is responsible for strengthening social ties and ensuring a person’s well-being. <ref>[[wikipedia:Sharing]]</ref> It can also be seen as a way of building a sense of community particularly via the process of sharing [[food]], but also by a variety of other activities such as [[ridesharing]] or [[co-housing]]. It can be argued that sharing strengthens the resilience of local economies. Sharing programs have even be divised for whole [[:category:Cities|cities]].


== What communities can do ==
* UK Sharing Libraries Network: Strengthening a Movement, Jan 24, 2022...<ref>[https://networkofwellbeing.org/2022/01/24/uk-sharing-libraries-network-strengthening-a-movement/ networkofwellbeing.org]</ref>
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'''Sharing''' is a basic component of human interaction, and is responsible for strengthening social ties and ensuring a person’s well-being.<ref>[[wikipedia:Sharing]]</ref> It can also be seen as a way of building a sense of community particularly via the process of sharing [[food]], but also by a variety of other activities such as [[ridesharing]] or [[co-housing]]. It can be argued that sharing strengthens the resilience of local economies. Sharing programs have even be divised for whole [[:category:Cities|cities]].
 
== Community action projects ==


* Cohousing schemes
* Cohousing schemes
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* skill sharing events or programmes
* skill sharing events or programmes
* support land rights movements
* support land rights movements
* Dec 1 - 24: Reverse advent calendars eg see [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42069381 bbc.co.uk/news]


== Commons ==
== Events ==


The traditional idea of a [[commons]] allows for sharing within a community. Customs and laws enabled the commons to be protected.
{{Eventlist|location=world|keyword=sharing|year=2024}}


[[wikipedia:Commons|wikipedia]]:
== BookCrossing ==
:The commons is a general term referring to the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society, including natural materials such as air, water, and a habitable earth. These resources are held in common, not owned privately.


:Today, the commons are also understood within a cultural sphere. These commons include literature, music, arts, design, film, video, television, radio, information, software and sites of heritage. The crowdsourcing movement and among others Wikipedia are examples of the production and maintenance of common goods by certain communities in the form or videos, music, or encyclopedic knowledge that can be freely accessed by anyone without a central authority. Tragedy in the Wiki-Commons is avoided among others by community control and trading status and attention of individual authors within the Wikipedia community.
[[File:ZSP Bookcrossing in UW 2012.JPG|290px|thumb|Bookcrossing bookcase at the University of Warsaw, organized by the Association of Polish Students]]


:'''Stewardship'''
BookCrossing (also BC, BCing or BXing) is defined as "the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by others, who then do likewise." The term is derived from bookcrossing.com, a free online book club which was founded to encourage the practice, aiming to "make the whole world a library."
 
:Caring for the commons is an act of individual stewardship (long-term care for a given resource for the benefit of oneself and others including the resource itself) and collective trusteeship. It is the very essence of being ‘whole’, the fundamental basis of interdisciplinarity. It is one of the few ways we have to acknowledge our debt to the past generations, and to embody our link to future generation. It shows we believe in ourselves as an enduring civilization, not an economy.


:Caring for the commons means more than just regulating. Caretakers are needed, that is, a system nurturing societal cooperation, sharing of goods and thoughtfulness of generations to come. It entails establishing norms that reduce free riding and hold communities together. For our generation seems to be moving beyond viewing commons only as a norm, and taking action to enable and protect them in all spheres of our lives.
The 'crossing' or exchanging of books may take any of a number of forms, including wild-releasing books in public, direct swaps with other members of the websites, or "book rings" in which books travel in a set order to participants who want to read a certain book. The community aspect of BookCrossing.com has grown and expanded in ways that were not expected at the outset, in the form of blog or forum discussions, mailing lists and annual conventions throughout the world. {{W|BookCrossing}} <br clear=right>


== Sharing economy ==
== Little Free Library ==


{{#widget:YouTube|id=WcL2vDsv1nM}}
[[File:Little Free Library, Easthampton MA.jpg|290px|right|Little Free Library, Easthampton [[Massachusetts]]]]


The sharing economy (sometimes also referred to as the peer-to-peer economy, mesh, collaborative economy, collaborative consumption) is a socio-economic system built around the sharing of human and physical resources. It includes the shared creation, production, distribution, trade and consumption of goods and services by different people and organisations. These systems take a variety of forms, often leveraging information technology to empower individuals, corporations, non-profits and government with information that enables distribution, sharing and reuse of excess capacity in goods and services. A common premise is that when information about goods is shared, the value of those goods may increase, for the business, for individuals, and for the community.
''Main article'': [[Mini library]]


The sharing economy encompasses a wide range of structures including for-profit, non-profit, barter and co-operative structures. Share-based offerings are based on a set of values that often includes trust, transparency, economic empowerment, creative expression, authenticity, community resilience and human connection. {{W|Sharing economy}}
Little Free Libraries are a community movement in the United States and worldwide that offers free books housed in small containers to members of the local community. They are also referred to as community book exchanges, book trading posts, pop-up libraries, and Noox (Neighbourhood bOOk eXchange), amongst other terms. {{W|Little Free Library}}
 
=== Mesh economy ===


The Mesh economy encompasses public and private sector organizations and firms working within the various realms of the sharing economy, the peer economy, the collaborative economy and the circular economy. The shift from defining unused value as waste to defining it as an opportunity to create value from more efficient resource use is the common factor among all mesh economy organizations. The understanding that information technology enables excess capacity in human capital to be more efficiently deployed to solve social and environmental challenges as articulated by Clay Shirky in his 2008 book, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations is an important influence. {{W|Sharing economy}}
'''External links'''


== Government-mediated sharing ==
* [https://littlefreelibrary.org/ Little Free Library]<br clear=right>
 
[[Public goods]] such as [[public transport]] and public [[open space]] are typically provided by a government using tax funds. This enables the provision of common goods and services which (due to the [[free rider problem]]{{w|free rider problem}} are not easily provided for by individuals or civil society).
 
== Sharing cities ==
 
{{#widget:YouTube|id=6WVFTBK-MTY}}
 
[http://www.shareable.net/sharing-cities Sharing Cities network], Shareable
 
'''See also''': Seoul, [[South Korea]]
 
== BookCrossing ==
 
BookCrossing (also BC, BCing or BXing) is defined as "the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by others, who then do likewise." The term is derived from bookcrossing.com, a free online book club which was founded to encourage the practice, aiming to "make the whole world a library."
 
The 'crossing' or exchanging of books may take any of a number of forms, including wild-releasing books in public, direct swaps with other members of the websites, or "book rings" in which books travel in a set order to participants who want to read a certain book. The community aspect of BookCrossing.com has grown and expanded in ways that were not expected at the outset, in the form of blog or forum discussions, mailing lists and annual conventions throughout the world. {{W|BookCrossing}}
 
[[File:ZSP Bookcrossing in UW 2012.JPG|290px|left|thumb|Bookcrossing bookcase at the University of Warsaw, organized by the Association of Polish Students]]<br clear=left>


== Cohousing ==
== Cohousing ==


A cohousing community is a type of intentional community composed of private homes supplemented by shared facilities. The community is planned, owned and managed by the residents – who also share activities which may include cooking, dining, child care, gardening, and governance of the community. Common facilities may include a kitchen, dining room, laundry, child care facilities, offices, internet access, guest rooms, and recreational features.
{{Excerpt|Cohousing}}


Cohousing facilitates interaction among neighbors for social and practical benefits, economic and environmental benefits.
== Potluck ==
 
In describing [[New York City]]'s first co-housing project, a New York Times article said co-housing "speaks to people who want to own an apartment but not feel shut off by it, lost in an impersonal city." {{W|Cohousing}} / ''See also [[:category:Cohousing]]''
[[File:SunwardCohousingPlayStructure2005.jpg|290px|left|thumb|Cohousing playground next to Common House]]<br clear=left>


== Little Free Library ==
[[File:Potluck06.jpg|290px|thumb|An assortment of food dishes at a church potluck]]


Little Free Libraries are a community movement in the United States and worldwide that offers free books housed in small containers to members of the local community. They are also referred to as community book exchanges, book trading posts, pop-up libraries, and Noox (Neighbourhood bOOk eXchange), amongst other terms. {{W|Little Free Library}}
A potluck is a gathering of people where each person or group of people contributes a dish of food prepared by the person or the group, to be shared among the larger gathered group. Synonyms include: potluck dinner, spread, Jacob's join, Jacob's supper, faith supper, covered dish supper, dish party, bring and share, shared lunch, pitch-in, carry-in, bring-a-plate, dish-to-pass, fuddle. It is also referred to as a smorgasbord or potlatch. {{W|Potluck}} <br clear=right>
[[File:Little Free Library, Easthampton MA.jpg|290px|left|thumb|Little Free Library, Easthampton [[Massachusetts]]]]<br clear=left>
 
== Potluck ==
 
A potluck is a gathering of people where each person or group of people contributes a dish of food prepared by the person or the group, to be shared among the larger gathered group. Synonyms include: potluck dinner, spread, Jacob's join, Jacob's supper, faith supper, covered dish supper, dish party, bring and share, shared lunch, pitch-in, carry-in, bring-a-plate, dish-to-pass, fuddle. It is also referred to as a smorgasbord or potlatch. {{W|Potluck}}
[[File:Potluck06.jpg|290px|left|thumb|An assortment of food dishes at a church potluck]]<br clear=left>


== Streetbank ==
== Streetbank ==
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The Streetbank website states "Streetbank is a movement of people who share with their neighbours".
The Streetbank website states "Streetbank is a movement of people who share with their neighbours".


The purpose of Streetbank is to boost local communities by encouraging people to get to know their neighbours. {{W|Streetbank}} / [http://www.streetbank.com StreetBank]
The purpose of Streetbank is to boost local communities by encouraging people to get to know their neighbours. {{W|Streetbank}} / [https://www.streetbank.com StreetBank]


== Tool libraries ==
== Tool libraries ==
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== Resources ==
== Resources ==
* The Ultimate Guide To Organizing a Skillshare, from [http://www.shareable.net/blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-organizing-a-skillshare Shareable]
* [[How to start a tool library in your community]]
* How to Organize a ShareFest, [http://www.shareable.net/blog/how-to-organize-a-sharefest Shareable]
* How to start a Library of Things, [http://www.shareable.net/blog/how-to-start-a-library-of-things Shareable]
* [http://sharingvoucher.com/ Sharing Vouchers]
* ''see also'' [[United States#Sharing]]
* Wikipedia: [[wikipedia:List of tool-lending libraries|List of tool-lending libraries]]


=== Funding ===
=== Networks ===


16 Tips to Crowdfund a Tool Library In Your Town, July 2015 [http://www.shareable.net/blog/16-tips-to-crowdfund-a-tool-library-in-your-town Shareable]
[https://www.shareable.net/sharing-cities Sharing Cities network], Shareable


=== Maps ===
=== Apps for sustainability ===


[http://www.shareable.net/sharing-cities Sharing Cities network], Shareable
[https://olioex.com/ OLIO]


=== Video ===  
=== Books ===


{{#widget:Vimeo|id=49452785}}
* Sharing Cities: A worldwide cities overview on platform economy policies with a focus on [[Barcelona]] [https://www.share.barcelona:80/book/ share.barcelona]


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=== Funding ===


__TOC__
16 Tips to Crowdfund a Tool Library In Your Town, July 2015 [https://www.shareable.net/blog/16-tips-to-crowdfund-a-tool-library-in-your-town Shareable]


== Events ==
=== How to's ===


'''2014'''
* How to set up a swap or free store, [https://www.shareable.net/blog/how-to-set-up-a-swap-or-free-store Shareable], Dec 10, 2018
* [[How to start a tool library in your community]]
* How to Organize a ShareFest, [https://www.shareable.net/blog/how-to-organize-a-sharefest Shareable], February 17, 2014
* How to start a Library of Things, [https://www.shareable.net/blog/how-to-start-a-library-of-things Shareable]


October 13 -16 - MapJam 2.0 <br> 
=== Maps ===
to Put the New Economy on the Map! / [http://www.shareable.net/blog/mapjam-20-to-put-the-new-economy-on-the-map Shareable]


[https://www.shareable.net/sharing-cities Sharing Cities network], Shareable


September 20 - THE MEAL '14 <br>
=== Research ===
[http://www.the-meal.net/ the-meal.net]


Made to Measure, [https://www.participatorycity.org/made-to-measure-1 Participatory City], Year 1 Report for the EVERY ONE EVERY DAY initiative


[[File:320px-Teens sharing a song.jpg|120px|left]]
=== Video ===
June 1 - Global Sharing Day <br><br>
[http://www.thepeoplewhoshare.com/global-sharing-day/ thepeoplewhoshare.com]
<br clear=left><br>


[[File:Hackers in room.jpg|120px|left]]
{{Video|-OmulYTaoY8}}
February 22 - Open Data Day<br><br>
International Open Data hackathon, [http://opendataday.org/ opendataday.org], [http://wiki.opendataday.org/Main_Page#What_can_I_do.3F What can I do?]
<br clear=left>


== News and comment ==
=== Other resources ===


'''2016'''
* 8 tips on hosting a successful clothing swap [https://www.shareable.net/blog/8-tips-on-hosting-a-successful-clothing-swap Shareable], Nov 30, 2018
* The Ultimate Guide To Organizing a Skillshare, [http://web.archive.org/web/20160416142330/http://www.shareable.net/blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-organizing-a-skillshare Shareable]
* Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons, [https://www.shareable.net/sharing-cities Shareable]
* A Guide To Sharing For Every Season, [https://www.shareable.net/blog/a-guide-to-sharing-for-every-season Shareable], January 10, 2012
* [https://sharingvoucher.com/ Sharing Vouchers]
* Top 10 Ways to Save Money through Sharing, [https://www.shareable.net/blog/top-10-ways-to-save-money-through-sharing Shareable], September 3, 2010
* ''see also'' [[United States#Sharing]]
* Wikipedia: [[Wikipedia:List of tool-lending libraries|List of tool-lending libraries]]


Hyperlocal Sharing, A Store Where Everything is Free, includes "Guidelines, from the original Free Store Plan, courtesy co-founder Marie Goodwin", Jul 12 <ref>[http://www.kosmosjournal.org/news/hyperlocal-sharing-a-store-where-everything-is-free/ kosmosjournal.org]</ref>
== Commons ==


Inside the Little Free Pantry: a Q&A with its Creator, Jun 22 <ref>[http://www.shareable.net/blog/inside-the-little-free-pantry-a-qa-with-its-creator Shareable]</ref>
''Main article:'' [[Commons]]


The Library of Things: 8 Spaces Changing How We Think About Stuff, Jun 15 <ref>[http://www.shareable.net/blog/the-library-of-things-8-spaces-changing-how-we-think-about-stuff Shareable]</ref>
The traditional idea of a commons allows for sharing within a community. Customs and laws enabled the commons to be protected.


From collaborative economy to collaborative society, Jun 9 <ref>[http://www.nesta.org.uk/blog/collaborative-economy-collaborative-society nesta.org.uk]</ref>
:The commons is a general term referring to the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society, including natural materials such as air, water, and a habitable earth. These resources are held in common, not owned privately.


The Sustainability Commons: Using Open Source Design to Address Climate Change, Jun 8 <ref>[http://www.shareable.net/blog/the-sustainability-commons-using-open-source-design-to-address-climate-change Shareable]</ref>
:Today, the commons are also understood within a cultural sphere. These commons include literature, music, arts, design, film, video, television, radio, information, software and sites of heritage. The crowdsourcing movement and among others Wikipedia are examples of the production and maintenance of common goods by certain communities in the form or videos, music, or encyclopedic knowledge that can be freely accessed by anyone without a central authority. Tragedy in the Wiki-Commons is avoided among others by community control and trading status and attention of individual authors within the Wikipedia community.


The First Little Free Pantry Pops Up in Arkansas Inspired by Little Free Libraries, Jun 1 <ref>[http://www.shareable.net/blog/the-first-little-free-pantry-pops-up-in-arkansas-inspired-by-little-free-libraries Shareable]</ref>
:'''Stewardship'''


Ready For This Year's MapJam? Mar 22 <ref>[http://www.shareable.net/blog/ready-for-this-years-mapjam Shareable]</ref>
:Caring for the commons is an act of individual stewardship (long-term care for a given resource for the benefit of oneself and others including the resource itself) and collective trusteeship. It is the very essence of being ‘whole’, the fundamental basis of interdisciplinarity. It is one of the few ways we have to acknowledge our debt to the past generations, and to embody our link to future generation. It shows we believe in ourselves as an enduring civilization, not an economy.


14 Guides on Throwing Awesome Community Sharing Events, May 5 <ref>[http://www.shareable.net/blog/14-guides-on-throwing-awesome-community-sharing-events Shareable]</ref>
:Caring for the commons means more than just regulating. Caretakers are needed, that is, a system nurturing societal cooperation, sharing of goods and thoughtfulness of generations to come. It entails establishing norms that reduce free riding and hold communities together. For our generation seems to be moving beyond viewing commons only as a norm, and taking action to enable and protect them in all spheres of our lives. {{W|Commons}}


The Top 10 Sharing Economy Predictions for 2016, by the Experts, January 21 <ref>[http://www.shareable.net/blog/the-top-10-sharing-economy-predictions-for-2016-by-the-experts @Shareable]</ref>
== Sharing economy ==


International Team Kicks off Sharing Cities Book Project, Jan 20 <ref>[http://www.shareable.net/blog/international-team-kicks-off-sharing-cities-book-project @Shareable]</ref>
Sharing economy is an umbrella term with a range of meanings, often used to describe economic and social activity involving online transactions. Originally growing out of the open-source community to refer to peer-to-peer based sharing of access to goods and services, the term is now sometimes used in a broader sense to describe any sales transactions that are done via online market places, even ones that are business to business (B2B), rather than peer-to-peer. For this reason, the term sharing economy has been criticised as misleading, some arguing that even services that enable peer-to-peer exchange can be primarily profit-driven. {{W|Sharing economy}} In the case of "ride sharing" companies like Uber and Lyft, it is arguable that little to nothing is being shared, the cars belong to the drivers (who have to pay for their upkeep out of pocket), and the organizational structure is centralized instead of peer-to-peer.


'''2015'''
=== Mesh economy ===


Sharing Vouchers Offer a Simple Way to Share Anything, September 28 <ref>[http://www.shareable.net/blog/sharing-vouchers-offer-a-simple-way-to-share-anything Shareable]</ref>
The Mesh economy encompasses public and private sector organizations and firms working within the various realms of the sharing economy, the peer economy, the collaborative economy and the circular economy. The shift from defining unused value as waste to defining it as an opportunity to create value from more efficient resource use is the common factor among all mesh economy organizations. The understanding that information technology enables excess capacity in human capital to be more efficiently deployed to solve social and environmental challenges as articulated by Clay Shirky in his 2008 book, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations is an important influence. {{W|Sharing economy}}


Helsinki's PiggyBaggy is Ridesharing for Packages, September 21 <ref>[http://www.shareable.net/blog/helsinkis-piggybaggy-is-ridesharing-for-packages Shareable]</ref>
== Government-mediated sharing ==


16 Tips to Crowdfund a Tool Library In Your Town, July 13 <ref>[http://www.shareable.net/blog/16-tips-to-crowdfund-a-tool-library-in-your-town Shareable]</ref>
[[Public goods]] such as [[public transport]] and public [[open space]] are typically provided by a government using tax funds. This enables the provision of common goods and services which (due to the [[free rider problem]]{{w|free rider problem}} are not easily provided for by individuals or civil society).


'''2014'''
== Sharing cities ==


The Sharing Economy Isn't Just For Young, Coastal Urbanites Any More, June 6 <ref>[http://www.fastcoexist.com/3031205/the-sharing-economy-isnt-just-for-young-coastal-urbanites-any-more fastcoexist.com]</ref>
{{Video|6WVFTBK-MTY}}


Sharing economies are here to stay, May 7 <ref>[http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/behavioural-insights/sharing-economy-sustainable-alternative-economics The Guardian]</ref>
=== Sharing cities community maps ===


We Are Winning, Join Us, January 13 <ref>[http://www.shareable.net/blog/we-are-winning-join-us Shareable]</ref>
[https://www.shareable.net/community-maps Shareable]


'''2013'''  
'''See also''':


Paul Hawken: Sharing economy is 'bigger than the Internet', December 20 <ref>[http://www.greenbiz.com/video/2013/12/20/paul-hawken-collaborative-economy-verge-studio-c GreenBiz]</ref>
* [[:Category:Sharing cities]]
* Seoul, [[South Korea]]
* [[11 core principles for Sharing Cities]]


10 Steps To Create A Local Sharing Economy, September 18 <ref>[http://shareable.sharedby.co/share/kyEb7A Shareable]</ref>
'''External links''':


10 ideas for change: The Sharing Economy, July 11 <ref>[http://newstartmag.co.uk/features/10-ideas-for-change-the-sharing-economy/ NewStart]</ref>
[https://www.shareable.net/sharing-cities Sharing Cities network], Shareable


Bring Transition Town-style Sharing to your Community, January 15 <ref>[http://www.shareable.net/blog/bring-transition-town-style-sharing-to-your-community Shareable]</ref>
Sharing City Lab, founded by the two cities Seoul and Amsterdam


'''2010'''
== See also ==


How to Reinvent the Potluck, August 27 <ref>[http://www.shareable.net/blog/how-to-reinvent-the-potluck Shareable]</ref>
* [[Sharing news]]
 
* [[Sharing UK]]
 
'''News sources'''
 
[http://www.shareable.net/ Shareable]
 
== See also ==
* {{localtopic}}
* [[Community currencies, sustainable community action]]
* [[Community currencies, sustainable community action]]
* [[Community resources]]
* [[Community resources]]
* [[Ethical consumerism]]
* [[Ethical consumerism]]
* [[Food, sustainable community action]]
* [[Food activism]]
* [[Free stuff]]
* [[Free stuff]]
* [[Localism]]
* [[Localism]]
* [[Mini library]]
* [[Mini library]]
* [[Networks]]
* [[Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle]]
* [[Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle]]
* [[Ride sharing]]
* [[Ride sharing]]
* [[Sustainable transport via community action]]
* [[Sustainable transport activism]]
* [[Towards sustainable economies]]
* [[Towards sustainable economies]]
* [[Urban sustainability]]
* [[:category:Commons|Commons]] (category)
* [[:category:Commons|Commons]] (category)
* [[:Category:Sharing|Sharing]] (category)
{{Localtopic}}
{{CASwiki menu}}


== Interwiki links ==
'''External links'''
Wikipedia: [[wikipedia:Sharing|Sharing]], [[wikipedia:Sharing economy|Sharing economy]], [[wikipedia:Category:Land rights movements|Land rights movements]] (category)


[http://sharewiki.org/en/Main_Page Sharewiki], a wiki about sharing.
* Wikipedia: [[Wikipedia:Sharing|Sharing]], [[Wikipedia:Sharing economy|Sharing economy]], [[Wikipedia:Collaborative consumption|Collaborative consumption]], [[Wikipedia:Sharing#In computer and Internet culture|Online sharing]], [[Wikipedia:Temporary work|Temporary work]], [[Wikipedia:Category:Land rights movements|Land rights movements]] (category), Library of Things {{W|Library of Things}}


== External links ==
[https://sharewiki.org/en/Main_Page Sharewiki], a wiki about sharing.
*[http://www.bewelcome.org/ BeWelcome], describes itself as an "open-source, independent network, built by volunteers."
*[http://www.bookcrossing.com/ BookCrossing]
*[http://onthecommons.org/ On the Commons] – dedicated to exploring ideas and action about the commons—which encompasses natural assets such as oceans and clean air as well as cultural endowments like the Internet, scientific research and the arts.
*[http://p2pfoundation.net/The_Foundation_for_P2P_Alternatives The Peer to Peer Foundation]


* [https://www.bewelcome.org/ BeWelcome], describes itself as an "open-source, independent network, built by volunteers."
* [https://www.bookcrossing.com/ BookCrossing]
* [https://yunity.org/en yunity]
* [https://grist.org/series/the-real-sharing-economy/ The Real Sharing Economy] Series From [[Grist Magazine]] On The Sharing Economy


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The Fixers Collective At The West Seattle Tool Library's Community Workshop, March 2012, Attribution: jpdunn
  • UK Sharing Libraries Network: Strengthening a Movement, Jan 24, 2022...[1]

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Sharing is a basic component of human interaction, and is responsible for strengthening social ties and ensuring a person’s well-being.[2] It can also be seen as a way of building a sense of community particularly via the process of sharing food, but also by a variety of other activities such as ridesharing or co-housing. It can be argued that sharing strengthens the resilience of local economies. Sharing programs have even be divised for whole cities.

Community action projects[edit | edit source]

  • Cohousing schemes
  • develop a ShareFest or similar annual event
  • encourage equipment sharing and develop tool & all other kinds of community resource libraries
  • help build the digital commons, for example share information and knowledge on CASwiki and Appropedia
  • hold a potluck, bring and share food (or other stuff) events
  • little free libraries or Mini library
  • organise co-purchasing clubs
  • promote collaborative consumption
  • set up toy libraries
  • set up community book exchanges, promote book crossing
  • set up co-working spaces
  • skill sharing events or programmes
  • support land rights movements
  • Dec 1 - 24: Reverse advent calendars eg see bbc.co.uk/news

Events[edit | edit source]

BookCrossing[edit | edit source]

Bookcrossing bookcase at the University of Warsaw, organized by the Association of Polish Students

BookCrossing (also BC, BCing or BXing) is defined as "the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by others, who then do likewise." The term is derived from bookcrossing.com, a free online book club which was founded to encourage the practice, aiming to "make the whole world a library."

The 'crossing' or exchanging of books may take any of a number of forms, including wild-releasing books in public, direct swaps with other members of the websites, or "book rings" in which books travel in a set order to participants who want to read a certain book. The community aspect of BookCrossing.com has grown and expanded in ways that were not expected at the outset, in the form of blog or forum discussions, mailing lists and annual conventions throughout the world. W

Little Free Library[edit | edit source]

Little Free Library, Easthampton Massachusetts
Little Free Library, Easthampton Massachusetts

Main article: Mini library

Little Free Libraries are a community movement in the United States and worldwide that offers free books housed in small containers to members of the local community. They are also referred to as community book exchanges, book trading posts, pop-up libraries, and Noox (Neighbourhood bOOk eXchange), amongst other terms. W

External links

Cohousing[edit | edit source]

Octicons puzzle-piece.svg
From Cohousing
Cohousing playground next to Common House
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Cohousing is a way of sharing resources and space, and allowing for greater community and collaboration, while still giving individuals their own private space - though less private space is needed than in conventional, isolated housing.

Potluck[edit | edit source]

An assortment of food dishes at a church potluck

A potluck is a gathering of people where each person or group of people contributes a dish of food prepared by the person or the group, to be shared among the larger gathered group. Synonyms include: potluck dinner, spread, Jacob's join, Jacob's supper, faith supper, covered dish supper, dish party, bring and share, shared lunch, pitch-in, carry-in, bring-a-plate, dish-to-pass, fuddle. It is also referred to as a smorgasbord or potlatch. W

Streetbank[edit | edit source]

The Streetbank website states "Streetbank is a movement of people who share with their neighbours".

The purpose of Streetbank is to boost local communities by encouraging people to get to know their neighbours. W / StreetBank

Tool libraries[edit | edit source]

Tool libraries allow patrons to borrow tools, equipment and "how-to" instructional materials, functioning either as a rental shop, with a charge for borrowing the tools, or more commonly free of charge as a form of community sharing. Given their increasing popularity and proven history of success, tool libraries and tool banks are now playing an exciting role in the burgeoning sharing economy and can be found everywhere from local public libraries to makerspaces. W

Resources[edit | edit source]

Networks[edit | edit source]

Sharing Cities network, Shareable

Apps for sustainability[edit | edit source]

OLIO

Books[edit | edit source]

Funding[edit | edit source]

16 Tips to Crowdfund a Tool Library In Your Town, July 2015 Shareable

How to's[edit | edit source]

Maps[edit | edit source]

Sharing Cities network, Shareable

Research[edit | edit source]

Made to Measure, Participatory City, Year 1 Report for the EVERY ONE EVERY DAY initiative

Video[edit | edit source]

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Other resources[edit | edit source]

Commons[edit | edit source]

Main article: Commons

The traditional idea of a commons allows for sharing within a community. Customs and laws enabled the commons to be protected.

The commons is a general term referring to the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society, including natural materials such as air, water, and a habitable earth. These resources are held in common, not owned privately.
Today, the commons are also understood within a cultural sphere. These commons include literature, music, arts, design, film, video, television, radio, information, software and sites of heritage. The crowdsourcing movement and among others Wikipedia are examples of the production and maintenance of common goods by certain communities in the form or videos, music, or encyclopedic knowledge that can be freely accessed by anyone without a central authority. Tragedy in the Wiki-Commons is avoided among others by community control and trading status and attention of individual authors within the Wikipedia community.
Stewardship
Caring for the commons is an act of individual stewardship (long-term care for a given resource for the benefit of oneself and others including the resource itself) and collective trusteeship. It is the very essence of being ‘whole’, the fundamental basis of interdisciplinarity. It is one of the few ways we have to acknowledge our debt to the past generations, and to embody our link to future generation. It shows we believe in ourselves as an enduring civilization, not an economy.
Caring for the commons means more than just regulating. Caretakers are needed, that is, a system nurturing societal cooperation, sharing of goods and thoughtfulness of generations to come. It entails establishing norms that reduce free riding and hold communities together. For our generation seems to be moving beyond viewing commons only as a norm, and taking action to enable and protect them in all spheres of our lives. W

Sharing economy[edit | edit source]

Sharing economy is an umbrella term with a range of meanings, often used to describe economic and social activity involving online transactions. Originally growing out of the open-source community to refer to peer-to-peer based sharing of access to goods and services, the term is now sometimes used in a broader sense to describe any sales transactions that are done via online market places, even ones that are business to business (B2B), rather than peer-to-peer. For this reason, the term sharing economy has been criticised as misleading, some arguing that even services that enable peer-to-peer exchange can be primarily profit-driven. W In the case of "ride sharing" companies like Uber and Lyft, it is arguable that little to nothing is being shared, the cars belong to the drivers (who have to pay for their upkeep out of pocket), and the organizational structure is centralized instead of peer-to-peer.

Mesh economy[edit | edit source]

The Mesh economy encompasses public and private sector organizations and firms working within the various realms of the sharing economy, the peer economy, the collaborative economy and the circular economy. The shift from defining unused value as waste to defining it as an opportunity to create value from more efficient resource use is the common factor among all mesh economy organizations. The understanding that information technology enables excess capacity in human capital to be more efficiently deployed to solve social and environmental challenges as articulated by Clay Shirky in his 2008 book, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations is an important influence. W

Government-mediated sharing[edit | edit source]

Public goods such as public transport and public open space are typically provided by a government using tax funds. This enables the provision of common goods and services which (due to the free rider problemW are not easily provided for by individuals or civil society).

Sharing cities[edit | edit source]

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Sharing cities community maps[edit | edit source]

Shareable

See also:

External links:

Sharing Cities network, Shareable

Sharing City Lab, founded by the two cities Seoul and Amsterdam

See also[edit | edit source]

local information can be found, or shared, via our many location pages

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External links

Sharewiki, a wiki about sharing.

References

  1. ↑ networkofwellbeing.org
  2. ↑ wikipedia:Sharing
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