Resource Sharing

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The essence of this concept is identifying which resources, tools, and techniques are best applied at the individual household level, as compared to those resources tools and techniques that are better when shared among groups of households, neighborhoods, or communities.

• How can people determine which appliances, tools, and equipment are better to share (under any kinds of communal ownership models), as compared to those that are best owned and operated by single users or nuclear families?
• Minka -- communal work
• Portland community action#Kitchen Share: A Sustainable Community Resource for Home Cooks
• Community fridge saves food from landfill (UK). https://www.harboroughmail.co.uk/news/environment/harboroughs-community-fridge-saves-nearly-eight-tonnes-of-food-from-going-to-landfill-4600653
• Give stuff away days at Massachusetts Ecovillages. https://patch.com/massachusetts/northborough/calendar/event/20240518/e4473b57-4ba4-4b81-9438-cc4ac1196a9c/give-your-stuff-away-day-at-sawyer-hill-ecovillage-berlin-9-1

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• The "No Buy" Challenge: How to Buy Less Stuff: (August 2024). National Public Radio Life-Kit: Money, WAMU (American University Radio). https://www.npr.org/2026/01/01/1197233388/buy-less-overspending-no-buy-challenge