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Colin Brown, CNBC Magazine — January 8, 2012
"Welcome To The Reputation Economy"

Sarah Butler, The Sunday Times — December 11, 2011
"Either A Borrower or A Lender Be"

Ron Conway, The Economist — November 17, 2011
"Where Angels Will Tread"

Alexandra Cain, Sydney Morning Herald — November 14, 2011
"What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of the Share Market"

Lora Kolodny, Fast Company — September 20, 2011
Collaborative Consumption Leader And Unlikely VC Rachel Botsman Will Convince Us All To Share
How do you score a job at a buzz-worthy new venture fund if you don’t have a background in finance, you’re not an engineer, and never ran a venture-backed company? Be a muse, an authority, and maintain a serious network—that was the answer for Rachel Botsman, now a partner at Collaborative Fund.

Lisa Weintrobe, The Guardian — August 19, 2011
"Q & A round-up: Rachel Botsman on Collaborative Consumption"

Schumpeter, WIRED Magazine — June 27, 2011
"The bottom of the pyramid"
“Entrepreneurs are also adjusting their business models to deal with the age of austerity…a popular model is “collaborative consumption”, which allows people to share or rent rather than own.”

Ignacio Román, Rolling Stone Argentina — June 22, 2011
"Consumo Colaborativo: Gracias por compartir"
No sólo de música y películas esta hecha la revolución p2p: una nueva generación de redes sociales le da forma al consumo colaborativo, un sistema de trueque futurista para la vida real.

The Dylan Ratigan Show, MSNBC — June 21, 2011
"What's Mine Is Yours"
Co-author Roo Rogers and CEO of Good Magazine, Ben Goldhirsh, discuss Collaborative Consumption.

Leo Hickman, The Guardian — June 14, 2011
"The end of consumerism?"
Collaborative consumption - the notion that we can now share or swap anything from clothes and parking spaces to free time - is an exciting idea. But is it really the answer to rampant consumerism?

Impulse Magazine — June 1, 2011
"Kaufst du noch oder teilst du schon?"

Enorm Magazine — June 1, 2011
"Meins ist Deins 3.0"

BBC World Service Radio One Planet — May 6, 2011
"Why do we all own a lawnmower?"

Sara Stroud, Sustainable Industries Magazine — May 2, 2011
"Rent Your Neighbor's Ride"
San Francisco has emerged as the test bed for new peer-to-peer car sharing services like Getaround, RelayRides and Spride Share that hope to turn a profit while reducing the impact of carbon-spewing vehicles by eliminating the need to own one.

Haley Shapley, Bankrate.com — April 21, 2011
"Consumers Share in Savings"
Websites that connect people who are interested in borrowing, bartering or buying used instead of new are gaining in popularity and hitting home with consumers because it saves money while connecting them with like-minded folks.

Danielle Sacks, Fast Company Magazine — April 18, 2011
"The Sharing Economy"
Thanks to the social web, you can now share anything with anyone anywhere in the world. Is this the end of hyperconsumption?

Lizza Gebilagin, CLEO Magazine — April 16, 2011
"All About Me/We"
Get ready to start sharing a whole lot more online than your party pics, thanks to the new culture of collaborative consumption.

Phil Dobbie, BNET — April 11, 2011
"Consumption You Can Share"

Michael Green, The Age — March 28, 2011
"Share and Share Alike"
On Neighbour Day, find a new way to say hi.

Life Matters, ABC Radio National — March 25, 2011
"Talkback: Collaborative Consumption, What's Mine Is Yours"
Richard Aedy speaks with Rachel Botsman as well as CC founders from Zookal, DriveMyCarRentals and Airbnb.

Fiona Webster, Daily Express — March 21, 2011
"Can I Switch Shopping for Swapping?"

Bryan Walsh, TIME Magazine — March 17, 2011
"Today's Smart Choice: Don't Own, Share"
Collaborative Consumption named as one of the 10 ideas that will change the world.

Anneli Knight, Sydney Morning Herald — March 16, 2011
"Co-ops Make A Comeback"
The GFC brought our sharing side to the fore, and the urge to merge our interests for a common benefit has turned into a global movement.

Dierdre Macken, The Weekend Australian Financial Review — March 5, 2011
"Sharing Is The New Shopping"
As the traditional retailers crumble, an alternative economy of sharing, renting and trading is capturing the dollars and imagination of consumers.

ABC Big Ideas — March 1, 2011
Invisible Cities: Community in a Digital Age
How has community changed with the rise of social networking and online connections which may be stronger than those in the ‘real world’?

Kevin Haughwout, The Freedmarketer — February 9, 2011
"SMWNYC 2011 - The Power of Collaboration and Sharing"

BBC Radio 4 — February 8, 2011
"Today with Sarah Montague and John Humphries"
Interview with Rachel Botsman commences at 1hr 49 minutes.

Ben Bryant, London Evening Standard — February 7, 2011
"Don't Splash The Cash - Internet Hiring is the New Buying"
In the world of collaborative consumption, hiring is the new buying. Just don’t forget to give it back.

Carnegie Council — February 7, 2011
"Just Business: Roo Rogers on Collaborative Consumption"
Roo Rogers speaks with Julia Taylor-Kennedy on What’s Mine Is Yours.

John-Paul Flintoff, The Sunday Times — February 6, 2011
"Beg, swap borrow: The smart way to live"
Technology is increasingly enabling us to make money from our time, skills and possessions, with the agreeable side effect of strengthening our communities.

David Rowan, WIRED UK — February 4, 2011
"Rentalship is the new ownership in the networked age"
What matters in the new era is not your physical wealth, but your reputation. As long as you’ve built up a rep for trustworthiness, there’s no reason you can’t benefit from access to a wealth of products and services when you need them.

CBC Canada — January 27, 2011
"Collaborative Consumption"
Matt Galloway spoke with Roo Rogers, co-author of “What’s Mine is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption”.

Jenn Abelson and Katie Johnston Chase, The Boston Globe — January 26, 2011
"Trade Wins"
The inauguration of National Swap Day reflects the growing popularity of bartering and the movement from online trading to off-line gatherings.

Sue White, ABC Environment — January 18, 2011
"Wired to Share"
“In the last year we’ve all seen Daimler, Peugeot and BMW all enter the car sharing and ride sharing space. It’s a matter of time before big brands like Virgin or Nike start to adopt some of these ideas. Critical mass depends on having the right inventory and enough users, but some of these businesses are turning a profit within the first two years.”

The National — January 9, 2011
"The Wisdom of Collaborative Consumption"
Collaborative consumption may be the answer to the age-old problem of opening your wardrobe and finding it full of clothes, but none that you want to wear.

Allen Howell, Forbes — January 4, 2011
"General Aviation Needs a Zipcar of the Air"

The New York Times — January 2, 2011
"Openers - The Chatter"
The folksy appeal of Etsy, a marketplace for handmade goods, creates a kind of intimacy between buyers and sellers.

Alexandra Frean, The Times London — December 30, 2010
"The start-up that's putting the social network generation in the driving seat."
The rise of collaborative consumption has been made possible by the internet, social networks, mobile devices and location-based GPS services enabling the ready exchange of data concerning location, availability, price, access and so on.

Simon Smart, ABC’s The Drum — December 10, 2010
"Collaboratively Consuming a New Way of Living"
It’s important that as a society we re-imagine ways of producing and consuming that don’t trash the planet.

Alan Brough, 774 ABC Melbourne — December 10, 2010
"Howzat! Cricket surps Alan Brough over the Summer"
Rachel Botsman is the co-author of a new book called, ‘What’s Mine is Yours - The Rise of Collaborative Consumption’. Listen in to hear some of the unique ways of saving money, the planet and society.

Brian Walsh, TIME Magazine — December 9, 2010
"No. 9: Trend Alert! Collaborative Consumption
the trend towards “collaborative consumption” — technology-enabled sharing and renting of goods — is one of the most heartening environmental trends.

Barrett Sheridan, Bloomberg Business Week — December 9, 2010
"Online Rental Markets Are Thriving"
Future generations are growing up expressing themselves through digital means. They’re thinking of themselves as the ‘we’ generation.

ABC — December 8, 2010
"Our Top 10 Talks"
Rachel Botsman is convinced there is a way to kick the habit…”collaborative consumption”. Her compelling TEDx Sydney talk tracks the shift away from the Culture of Me to the Culture of We.

Channel 7 Sunrise — December 5, 2010
"Rent Your Life! Collaborative Consumption"
Swapping, sharing and renting your life out to save money and increase your wealth… of experience.

Valeria Balocco, Marie Claire Italia — December 1, 2010
(In)solite Mete

Andrew Mueller, Project Magazine — November 30, 2010
"Share and Share Alike"
Botsman’s book, What’s Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption, demonstrates not only that such leaps of trust are now normal, but that we are going to be doing more of them.

Bryan Walsh, TIME Magazine — November 29, 2010
"Borrow, Don't Buy: Websites That Let Strangers Share"
In an era when families are scattered around the country and we may not know the people down the street from us, sharing things — even with strangers we’ve just met online — allows us to make meaningful connections.

Radio New Zealand — November 27, 2010
"Collaborative Consumption"
Rachel Botsman’s coined the term ‘collaborative consumption’ to describe the emerging economy based on sharing, borrowing and swapping goods and services, from power tools to accomodation.

Triple J’s Hack — November 15, 2010
"Collaborative Consumption"
Rachel Botsman says there’s a resurgence in swapping, sharing and recycling as a backlash against the sort of overconsumption that’s lead to Australians buying $10 billion of stuff they won’t use, every year.

Stephen Matchett, The Weekend Australian — November 13, 2010
"Where Faith and Reason Meet"
…The book is full of impressive examples of entrepreneurs establishing new markets. Ultimately, the authors’ optimism is infectious.

Lindsay Clinton, GOOD — November 12, 2010
"Forget the American Dream, Collaborative Consumption is a Better Path for Developing Economies"
“The move toward access, rather than ownership…has applications far beyond liberal American households and communities.”

Rachel Botsman, CNN — November 1, 2010
"Shared Access to Replace Ownership"
Emerging start-ups, from B-Cycle to Airbnb to SolarCity, are embracing an emerging culture and economy where experiences are valued more than stuff, where usage trumps possessions, and as Kevin Kelly, the founder of Wired magazine, puts it, where “access is better than ownership.”

Melissa Singer, Sydney Morning Herald — October 23, 2010
"Child's Play As Canny Consumers Swap Gifts That Keep On Giving"
“With the average household item used for just a fraction of its working life, renters are outstripping owners in a range of areas in a shift towards ‘collaborative consumption’, where access equals power and ownership is a burdensome relic from last century.”

Main Street by Seth Fiegerman — October 14, 2010
"The New Era of Secondhand Shopping"

The Economist — October 14, 2010
"The Business of Sharing"
Collaborative consumption is an ideal signalling device for an economy based on electronic brands and ever-changing fashions.

Sanne, Bloemink, HP / De Tijd — October 8, 2010
"Straathoek Socialisme in New York"

Michel Bauwens,P2P Foundation — October 7, 2010
"New Study Shows Social Media is Catalyzing an Offline Sharing Economy!"
A recent study showing the changing attitudes and behaviours of consumers towards the concept of online sharing economy driven by social technology which has given rise to promise of cost saving and stronger communities.

KERA’s Think Podcast — September 30, 2010
"The Rise of Collaborative Consumption"
How will our use and ownership of goods and services need to change if society is to move toward a more sustainable model?

New York Post — September 26, 2010
"Sharing Solution"
If you’ve bought something used on Craigslist.org or shared a car through Zipcar, then you have bought in to the new philosophy of collaborative consumption.

The New York Times — September 25, 2010
"Learning to Share, Thanks to the Web"
Companies trying to make money from what is called collaborative consumption are not very big and very new. Each counts its members in the thousands, and together they have a few million dollars in goods available to share.

Le Monde — September 24, 2010
"La montee de la consommation collaborative"
“La consommation collaborative modifie les facons de faire des affaires et reinvente non seulement ce que nous consommons, mais egalement comment nous consommons”, affirment ses defenseurs.

Harvard Business Review — September 23, 2010
Beyond Zipcar: Collaborative Consumption
Collaborative consumption is not a niche trend, and it’s not a reactionary blip to the recession. It’s a socioeconomic groundswell that will transform the way companies think about their value propositions—and the way people fulfill their needs.

KVON 1440 - Specific Gravity — September 22, 2010
"Share and Share Alike"
Jeff Schechtman interviews Rachel Botsman about how early lessons in sharing have been lost in the age of hyper-consumption, and on the growing shift towards collaborative consumption.

Bloomberg Radio — September 17, 2010
"The Hays Advantage"
Authors Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers discuss their new book, “What’s Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption” with Bloomberg’s Kathleen Hays. (Interview commences at 16m 07secs)

The New York Times — September 17, 2010
"A Commune Grows in Brooklyn"
“The groundswell of social technology today is creating unprecedented opportunities to share and collaborate,” said Rachel Bosman, an author of the new book “What’s Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption.”

Sierra Club Radio — September 15, 2010
"Interview with Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers"

WIRED Magazine — September 1, 2010
"Other People's Property"
“We are facing a revolution in the way we think about ownership,” Botsman says.

The New York Times — August 28, 2010
"Neighborly Borrowing, Over the Online Fence"
“This new economy,” says Ms. Botsman, “is going to be driven entirely by reputation, which is part of a new cultural shift — seeing how our behavior in one community affects what we can access in another.”

The Sunday Telegraph — July 25, 2010
"Sharing's all the rage"
Embrace the modem day reinvention of bartering, gifting, swapping and lending…

The Huffington Post — July 15, 2010
"Micki Krimmel: Consumer or Citizen?"
By lowering your fences and sharing with people around you, you are actively participating in the Collaborative Consumption movement…

Sarah J. Robbins, Publishers Weekly — July 14, 2010
"Back to Business"
Finally turning the page on 2009, publishers of business management books are feeling optimistic, focusing their energy on topics that suggest the worst just may be behind us, and on books that speak of rebuilding, reinvesting, reconsidering, and reinvigorating.

ABC Big Ideas Series 3, Episode 35 — June 7, 2010
"Collaborative Consumption is a a new socio-economic big idea"

ABC Big Ideas — June 7, 2010
"Goodbye Hyper-Consumption, hello 'Collaborative Consumption'"
Making Sharing Cool Again

Business21C — May 27, 2010
"Business21C Weekly Edition: 1"
Check out Rachel’s podcast on Business21C, about how more and more people are using technology to develop ways to share their consumption with others.

Project — April 22, 2010
"Collaborative consumption"