What: TEDxAnnaba 2012. Sharing ideas for the world from Annaba

Who: Creators, catalysts, entrepreneurs, artists, technologists, designers, scientists, thinkers and doers.

Where: The Capitol Theatre, Annaba

When: TEDxAnnaba brings you the Student Speaker Competition for all high school and college students in Algeria , The info session will highlight the essence of the competition as students have the opportunity to present their own ideas for potential presentation at the TEDxAnnaba conference. At TEDxAnnaba, we acknowledge and seek to foster the "spreading of ideas," and what way to better do so than by students who can dictate the future?
We are creating a wonderful program, which will build a memorable experience for our guests and we?re so looking forward to spreading your ideas!and the event will be held on Saturday, May 12th, 2012 beginning at 9am.

Why: Share Ideas innovation, development and positive change.

tedxannaba.com

About TEDx
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience.

At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group.

These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x=independently organized TED event.

The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.

A two-way rental exchange platform between peers

Barter, trade and buy or sell in a seamless local environment. What started as an entrepreneurial project grew into an innovative app for the GTA (and eventually the world). "Tradyo acts like a treasure hunt - a StumbleUpon for tangible things. You never know what you'll find or who you'll meet in the process, but you can keep in touch through the app if you discover a great trade buddy!"

An Innovative marketplace for parents to share used children stuff.

ChangeYourFlight is the first and only online platform to offer partial refunds to passengers with unused non-refundable plane tickets.

In case of an unexpected event or change of plans, the passenger can access www.changeyourflight.com and request a partial refund on his ticket in a free and simple 3-step process.

The platform allows passengers to make their own request, as well as for the airlines to search for available seats in a specific flight or date. The process is completely automated and hassle-free, as the passenger’s requests are aggregated and classified in order to let the airline optimize their offering.

In the end, the passengers can get a partial refund while the airline can get information to reduce their empty seats.

ChangeYourFlight offers a whole new solution to the passengers that haven’t bought an expensive flexible fare, or any cancellation insurance or simply want to recuperate more than the airport taxes.

"If you change your mind, we can change your flight"

Recommerce Solutions provides white-label Trade-in and Resell solutions of Used Electronics for the main distributors in France.

Whytrusted aggregates in one place your public information, reviews and scores and keeps track of your online reputation trail.
This service stands as a great partner of the new sharing economy and collaborative consumption.

We help cyclists rent bikes when they travel by connecting them with other cyclists who have bikes to rent. The cyclist renting the bike gets what they want (to ride) and the cyclist listing their bike earns some money (of course to spend on more bike stuff)

Recommerce Solutions provides white-label Trade-in and Resell solutions of Used Electronics for the main distributors in France.

Explore the Map of Europe using one of the many maps on our site.

Recommerce Solutions provides white-label Trade-in and Resell solutions of Used Electronics for the main distributors in France.

An all-around guidebook to coworking and collaborative workspaces.

Field tested guide with interviews, stories, strategies and tips from over 50 startups, freelancers, nonprofits, mobile workers, and consultants that cowork or run a coworking space.

A great introduction to what's been dubbed, the 'Future of Work'.

An Australian community network where mums and dads, boys and girls swap and share freebies. Saving by sharing is fun.

A smarter community network for parents and kids where sharing and swapping stuff is free and fun. It is a collaborative marketplace powered by trust and convenience.

A german stuff sharing platform, which concentrates on safety and trustworthy.

Sharing platform beyond the neighborhood.

Great sharing platform beyond the neighborhood.

Rentabox rents reusable sturdy, plastic moving boxes as a substitute for cardboard boxes. Cardboard is used on average less than twice before being recycled –which uses vast amounts of energy and water. Eco-boxes are reused hundreds of times before being recycled. The service includes delivery & pick-up of the boxes from the clients old & new addresses respectively. The service is convenient, affordable & green!

Fun2Rent connects owners of recreational vehicles/vessels (i.e. snowmobiles, ATVs, jet skis, boats) to qualified, insured renters.

It's a great way to make some money on a vehicle you may have sitting idle in the garage. Or if you're looking to rent, you can save up to 70% with Fun2Rent.

We enable p2p-car rental especially among acquaintances, friends and neighbors. Our outstanding insurance provides financial security and comfort for those who share their cars on a regular basis. Renters can easily find a cheap nearby car and lenders can compensate for their monthly expenses. Our carsharing community can also do this via our mobile/iPhone app. And finally, our model helps creating sustainable mobility options and relieves the environment and streets.

Peer-to-peer car sharing company in the Netherlands

SharePALS is an online platform helping you lend, borrow, share and donate your seldom used goods, spaces or skills.

By joining SharePALS you gain access to hundreds of underused goods in your area; and hundreds of people who need the goods, spaces and skills that you may have.

As part of the SharePALS community you can choose to lend things to make some extra money, offer goods and services for free, or donate items which you don't need any more to a new home.

Collaborate with others in your community and there may be no limit to the new products, connections, friends, places and ideas you could discover!

Give and get free stuff in your local community on your local Freecycle, Freegle, ReUseIt, Full Circles, and FreeSharing freecycling groups. With trash nothing!, it's quicker and easier to organize and manage your freecycling groups.

Reddit is a source for what's new and popular on the web. Users like you provide all of the content and decide, through voting, what's good () and what's junk ().
Links that receive community approval bubble up towards #1, so the front page is constantly in motion and (hopefully) filled with fresh, interesting links.

BabyExchange is a Parenting-Related Subreddit

Kids are expensive! They require clothes, shoes, toys, food, and a plethora of crazy things. That being said, they are expensive little people.
This is a place to go if you need help with baby or kids items, or you want to donate or swap said items. If you're struggling, this is a good place to look for a helping hand. It is not for monetary assistance, however.
Anything pertinent to children is acceptable, from prenatal vitamins to childcare, from nursery decorations to school supplies.
Kids grow fast, recycle their stuff to someone who needs it!
Please use (offer), (request), or (trade) in your title and try to list your location in your post. Thank you kindly!

LiquidSpace is a mobile and online, collaborative consumption marketplace facilitating the real-time sharing of productive working and meeting spaces such as day offices, conference rooms, workstations, and coworking desks.
Venues include both facilities shared publicly (office business centers, coworking spaces, hotels, government buildings) and facilities shared with private networks (law firms, corporate offices, home offices).
The system is built on an architecture of Trusted Sharing in which an individual must hold a Visa to a venue in their Passport (profile) in order to be able to make reservations and check-in to individual spaces. Once an individual has a Visa to a particular venue, he/she can make real-time reservations on the calendar allowing him/her to find a place to work right now.

Advertise your own garden as a campsite and/or book accommodation in other community members' gardens

A peer-to-peer marketplace for unique activities and tours.

RoomWale lets you stay with local people wherever you travel. You can make friends with them, learn about their culture and save on money.

WeGoLook is the leader in crowdsourcing onsite physical inspections of virtually anything. Users/Businesses can hire over 7,000 nationwide "Lookers" (onsite inspectors) to go anywhere in the USA to inspect a product, person, place or thing. Customers can have someone verify/inspect before buying a product.

Thumbtack.com is a marketplace for local services. They are changing the way people buy and sell services -- making it easier, safer, and more affordable.

We love peer to peer Carsharing! With our unique service and insurance, borrowing Cars with Autonetzer is the safest and easiest Place for all Cities within Germany.

A marketplace for local activities and tours.

flinc – Dynamic Ridesharing meets Social Network
flinc is the world’s first social mobility network which matches drivers and passengers
for ridesharing in real-time using desktop, smartphone and navigation technology.
By using their desktop, smartphone or navigation device flinc users can easily be matched in
real-time with members from their trusted social mobility network and share long or short
rides. As a world first, flinc is integrated in navigation software.
With flinc, drivers can reduce their mobility costs drastically with a minimum of effort. It only
takes one click to start using flinc - to see friends, go shopping or commuting. The
integration in navigation software enables the driver to navigate directly to the passenger.
For flinc-riders, a smartphone changes into a real alternative to the privately owned vehicle.
Pre-planned or in real-time, flinc can establish a ride and can take passengers from any
location to the destination of their choice. flinc’s intelligent route matching finds riders
anywhere along the route of the driver.
flinc is accessible via www.flinc.org.The iPhone app can be downloaded from the German
appstore and flinc is integrated in all European iPhone navigation solutions from NAVIGON.

Largest carsharing company in Scandinavia. 16.000 member.30% growth/year. Volvo/Hertz owned.

Locafree is a map-based web and mobile app for helping people find and give away free stuff.

Real time trusted sharing platform and marketplace for mobile workers looking for workspace, now, and real estate owners and operators with space to share. Today providing realtime booking (mobile and web) to an ecosystem of 100s of great spaces at Coworking sites, Office Centers, Hotels, private offices and municipal buildings.

Rent your things to your neighbours. Anything including camping/sporting/cooking/gardening equipment, etc.

It´s a web site when we talk about of south and southwest of Jalisco, Mexico. The object is give information about those regions, the culture, turism, and some teams relationate. And now, we are interesting to talk of the colaborative consumption.

Nerdbooks is a marketplace for used videogames, and business and text books from Colombia.

A unified Trust profile combining trust and reputation scores from myriad fragmented P2P services and marketplaces.

The success of collaborative consumption is predicated on trust.

TrustRank provides a quick and easy way for buyers, sellers and service providers to ascertain the overall trust levels of the other parties in their transactions.

ReadItSwapIt (RISI) is a book exchange website that facilitates direct swapping of books among its members in the UK.

ReadItSwapIt is a book exchange website that facilitates direct swapping of books among its members in the UK.

Peer-to-peer car rental. Rent your neighbour's car, or put your own car for rent.

This french initiative links producers to locavore consumers. This system is between CSA, Groupon and Facebook. It's very powerful and responsible. 100 communities ares existing in France.

BilNeur's business model, based on the growing collaborative consumption trend, is the first of its kind to allow new avenues for businesses to offer their resources - whether it’s office equipment, space, services, or staff – during less productive times, in order to keep up with overhead costs & salaries for employees who might otherwise be facing cuts in hours or layoffs. Freelancers, small businesses and individuals who value access over ownership can utilize the idle resources of brick and mortars on a one-time or short term basis.

Came across this amazing video. Uniiverse is a platform for collaborative living. It is still in stealth mode but the video highlights its vision. A great piece of inspiration.

Jointli is the reinvention of ownership for the sharing economy. It's an end-to-end shared ownership platform that helps people set up and manage co-ownership of any type of expensive and underutilized item (like a boat, RV, or vacation home).

Connecting travelers with locals around the world. The ultimate bite-size guide to a true local travel experience.

Connecting travelers with locals around the world. The ultimate bite-size guide to a true local travel experience.

classic / exotic car-sharing

Fund it is an Ireland-wide initiative that provides a platform for people with great ideas to attract funding from friends, fans and followers across the world.

People share their "couches", offering a place to stay for free and sharing experiences all around the world.

Open Kitchen Community bake is a social movement, locals get together, undertake big batch cooking to divvy up, providing pre-prepared meals for the week ahead.
Monday afternoon or evenings here at borderlands.

The same as Airbnb just a different name and german owned.

The first peer-to-peer car sharing initiative in The Netherlands.

SnappCar.nl makes P2Pcar sharing safely accessible for both car owners and drivers. Car owners can rent out their vehicle to other consumers directly, whenever they are not using this expensive and highly depreciating asset. Drivers have access to more makes and models than any car rental or traditional sharing company for prices of 40% under the normal rates.

The first peer-to-peer car sharing initiative in The Netherlands.

SnappCar.nl makes P2Pcar sharing safely accessible for both car owners and drivers. Car owners can rent out their vehicle to other consumers directly, whenever they are not using this expensive and highly depreciating asset. Drivers have access to more makes and models than any car rental or traditional sharing company for prices of 40% under the normal rates.

Toogethr is a mobile ridesharing service for b2b and c2c with a global potential. We have a global ambition to introduce a mobile ridesharing service with strong integration with online social networks. Furthermore, we take care of the payment between the participants.

Our focus is both on companies (employers, venues, business parks), governments and end-users (car drivers and passengers). At this moment we are preparing a test with a number of large companies in the Netherlands.

This site connects travellers with local people willing to cook for them in their homes all over the world. If the host can not cook there is an option to take the visitor to their favourite restaurant. It is a great way of finding out the culture of a country meeting and eating with the locals.

Centralise your trust and feedback scores from all the P2P Marketplaces and sites you sell on making it quick and easy for buyers to assess your trustworthiness.

More trust = More sales

On their own words, 'Catchafire matches professionals who want to give their skills with nonprofits and social enterprises that need their help.'

Swapstyle.com was the site that forged the swap movement for clothing online, its by far the biggest swap site and its been around for 8 years, ive been on there swapping for 5 years, wouldn't be without it, saved me lots of $ :)
Thanks for sharing the swapping love!

Ubokia is a community website connecting people to help share ideas, services, and goods. You post what you want, instead of what you have to sell. I am a twenty-year-old college student who started working for this company in April and it has been the most empowering and inspiring experience. This company is filled with energetic, passionate people who are driven to change how we use the internet and connect people and their needs. I recently used the website to find a ride to San Francisco by cooking someone a home cooked dinner. The possibilities are endless :)

Chicago Collaborative Parking

A website to help you find people in your area to swap skills with, and get things done for free

A website to help you find people with skills in your area, so you can swap skills and get things done for free.

Half of our stuff goes unused when it could be super valuable to someone else. Tradyo enables people to buy and barter the things they don't use with their neighbours in a simple, convenient, and downright fun way.

Listia is a marketplace that lets you trade anything for points, and trade points for anything. Items are listed in an auction-style format, which alleviates a lot of coordination for the seller and allows trades to happen for items unequal in value.

OpenDesks encourages businesses with extra workspace to put it to use by making it available to the community and mobile workforce.

German startup providing a platform for carsharing between private car owners.

Rentable super smart babywear in bamboo, with adjustable sizes and all goodies that can only be dreamed of, all baked into the clothes!

mobile ridesharing community. Still in a pilot phase in Germany. Includes Interfaces to Daimlers car2go and public transport organisations. It's a common project of Daimler AG and Scientific Computers

Peer-2-peer carsharing company with great insurance solution. Making sharing of cars safe and easy.

Marketplace for learning since 2007.

Neighborland connects residents with community leaders to make cities better

We help mobile workers navigate the global workspace ecosystem in real-time to work when, where and how they want.

LiquidSpace is an application that connects people seeking workspace with venues that have space to share. High-end business centers, hip startup co-working spaces, hotels, and private spaces are listed on our web site and in our mobile application.

LiquidSpace is live right now. There are great spaces to work throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and other new venues are beginning to pop up throughout the US. If you do not find your city in LiquidSpace, don’t fret – we will be there soon!

The LiquidSpace mobile application is currently available on the iPhone, iPad and the Web. Additional platforms are coming soon. LiquidSpace is backed by Greylock Partners, Floodgate Fund and Shasta Ventures.

Place where you can find people who are willing to rent a room or a house.

Allows people to inform others of stuff they have that they are willing to give away so it can be used by someone.

28,276 items swapped
31,948 items donated to charities
60,224 items diverted from landfills … and counting!

The S.W.A.P. Team is a non-profit social enterprise run entirely by volunteers. It is the creator of “Take Off Your Clothes” – a giant clothing swap for charity.

Founded in 2007, The S.W.A.P. Team has formed chapters in Montreal, Boston, Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary, Halifax, Northampton (MA) and Quebec City, and is ever-expanding.

We launch our new CC company 'Storemates' in September in the UK. Aimed at local communities, we match people with storage needs with local people who have extra unused space in their households they can rent out, charging a fraction of the price of commercial self storage companies. In addition we also provide a platform for people with storage space to trade this for a service they need. e.g.Gardening, dog walking, DIY, Spanish lessons what ever is needed. e.g it can work really well with retired people with space but who need some help from someone in their local community who may not be able to afford storage prices BUT can give a little of their time on e regular basis.

Known by everyone in Germany as "mitfahrgelegenheit" or "mitfahrzentrale".

Germans have managed to make ride sharing a completely normal behavior.
Finally this cheap, ecological and fun way to travel is making its way everywhere else!
It is so simple to do with money and CO2 being saved each time a car is shared.

IdeaEncore is a nonprofit resource exchange made up of a community of people who exchange information. We are people like you who have been through situations like yours.

Photographer-to-Photographer Studio Rental Exchange

I came across TradeAway.com recently when I typed in "barter" into Google. It's a creative online solution for getting items I want for the piles of stuff I have lying around my house. I like it because it's FREE to sign-up and list. I also like it because it's another way to meet other barterers in my community and save me money!

Products and services sharing and renting services in Brazil

Prdoucts and services sharing and rent services in Brazil

You already have this listed on this page:
http://www.collaborativeconsumption.com/the-movement/snapshot-of-examples.php

But the link is broken. There's an extra dot in it...

flinc is a social mobility network. It combines dynamic ridesharing and social networks.

Hi,

For some reason we didn't make it into the snapshot of Collaborative Consumption newsletter. Any chance you can put us on said list? Thank you.

http://www.collaborativeconsumption.com/archives/the-movement/andreas_randow_founder_of_studioshareorg.php

The Fruit Tree Project is a not for profit organisation which aims to harvest surplus or unwanted fruit from orchards, gardens and public areas in Sussex and Kent

Largest car sharing company in Scandinavia. Fast growing, soon 15.000 members. Volvo/Hertz owned.

A retail venture in which people swap their time working in and for the store in exchange for a discount on their shopping. Established as a co-operative, the venture also enables consumers to have a collective voice in the collective purchasing policies and strategies of the venture.

Taxistop is not taxisharing, but an organisation with different examples of collcon. Ridesharing: eventpool.be; carpoolplaza.be; eurostop.be. Home-sharing: HomeLink, Home-sitting: woningoppas.be, bed&Breakfast service

In Belgium also:
Bikesharing: Villo.be & Bluebike.be cargobike: bakfietsdelenrabot.be/
Car-Sharing: cambio.be & Autopia: autodelen.net (P2P)
Cohousing: samenhuizen.be
neigbourhood: letsvlaanderen.be
Exchange of goods: traderoom.be
Cloths: swapping.be
...

17th of September we are organizing the first sharing event in Belgium: An alternative motorshow (shared cars), with also couchsurfing, cohousing, bikesharing, swapping, traderoom.

We could send you all relevant info and the poster.

Do you have a short press release of 'collcon'. It would be nice to explain Belgian press about this trend, together with the announcement of our event.

Regards,

Angelo Meuleman - Taxistop

We’re a group of volunteers and starting a new scheme in our community. Your site offered us with valuable info to work on. You’ve done a formidable job and our entire community will be grateful to you. szkolenia e-learning

Agent Anything was created to address the needs of two groups of people:

Busy, hardworking people who don't have time to accomplish all their daily tasks or who need an occasional hand, and
College students who want to make some money but need to fit their work around class, practice and more.
Agent Anything brings these two groups of people together and helps them set up a fair trade of resources: a bit of busy people's money for a bit of college students' time.

Dispatch Nationwide Looker Inspectors to complete an ONSITE verification report of the item you wish to purchase or verify. Verify the item's existence and the seller's claims. Verify Before You Buy.

Everybody needs something. And sometimes – they need it right now.

If you’re the one in need, post your request on the site, tell us when you need it and how much you're willing to pay to get it done.

We’re also going to ask you for your address so we'll know where your helper needs to go to. This is all about filling your needs fast – so we like to stay local.

We then work our magic to make sure we find you someone on time. How do we do it? We sprinkle a bit of our secret magic dust (well, our system has the magic dust), and connect you to people who can give you what you need right on time.

Right now, we’ll send you an email whenever someone agrees to help you out.

We turn iPhones into a second paycheck and instantly connect businesses to the talented Gigwalk community workforce to do Gigs using the Gigwalk iPhone App.

The website is dedicated to small food businesses who are trying to find a commercial kitchen to cook their product. Culinary Incubators drive new start-up businesses, for whom, without a health department licensed commercial kitchen, could not legally produce their food.

Consumer marketplace connecting individuals with thousands of small brands and local businesses so they can discover each other efficiently and transact securely.

location-based peer-to-peer rental service

Where social media influencers tweet and post to facebook and LinkedIn YOUR content. Get your blog posts and other info buzzed (also digg'd and stumbled).

myTaskAngel is an online marketplace where people connect to get everyday tasks done in their local communities.

Founded in 2009 in London, England by a team of professionals drawn from the building design and IT industries, StorPod addresses two of the most common property questions today:

"As a landlord, how can I earn money from my vacant property?"

"As a tenant, where can I find convenient space to keep my non-essential stuff?"

Taxi sharing from the airport

Fun2Rent.com, Peer To Peer Recreation & Powersport Rentals.

Fun2Rent, an online platform enabling private owners of off road vehicles, vessels and trailers to profit on their equipment through renting out to qualified and insured renters.

Our unique selling position is full coverage insurance to renters, and liability coverage to owners.

Rental prices on Fun2Rent will be 50%-70% lower than all current rental companies of boats, personal watercraft, ATV/UTV, snowmobiles, travel/camping trailers, horse trailers and many other rentals.

Our system will allow communication of owners and renters though inner messaging, integrated Facebook profiles, ratings and reviews. Owners will receive reservation request via SMS/text and email.

email: info@Fun2Rent
Twitter: @Fun2Rent

Founder, Shawn Gardner
Shawn@Fun2Rent.com

Fun2Rent.com, Peer To Peer Recreation & Powersport Rentals.

We are an online platform enabling private owners of off road vehicles, vessels and trailers to profit on their equipment through renting out to qualified and insured renters.

Our unique selling position is full coverage insurance to renters, and liability coverage to owners. On Average our prices will be 50% lower than all current rental companies.

Our system will allow communication though inner messaging, integrated Facebook profiles, ratings and reviews. Owners will receive reservation request via SMS and email.
We have launched in California with plans of expansion to all of U.S. with in 2 years.

ASSOB is a peer to peer capital raising platform that enables entrepreneurs looking for growth capital to be connected to those looking to invest. All investment is via equities and share certificates are received. An internal legal department ensures all transactions are conducted in a compliant manner. Over $120 million has been transacted by 200 companies to date.

frents.com lets people share not only their information but also real goods and products. It is the first platform that comprehensively illustrates ownership in the web.

When having dinner in Seattle, I discovered that restaurant Sitka&Spruce shared their professional kitchen with a Mexican family once a week: great culinary variety, division of labor (less strain on workforce), surprise-effect for customers - for me this kitchen-sharing is also an example of collaborative consumption.

Fits into the Collaborative Lifestyles and peer to peer travel category.

Lets people rent out rooms to travellers.

These are best three art and designer marketplace.

Great site that allows you to share stuff with your neighbours within a limited postcode. The idea is as much to help people get to know their neighbours as it is to borrow and lend/ give and take. I've had some very happy experiences with it.

Icancanu is a peer-to-peer philanthropy network, where friends can request favours or offer to help one another.

Regular free meetups for people working at home to co-work together. Held worldwide.

Rent video games and watch movies online now.

Freegle exists to reduce the amount of waste we as individuals create - it provides a way for people with unwanted items to get in touch with others who can make use of them.

Organises parties where women can swap clothes

Enables people to find like-minded partners to share any major asset via joint ownership, long-term part-time rental or shared use. Assets include property, boats, cars, aircraft, horses, dogs, gardens, sports equipment

Artsicle is like Netflix for art, allowing consumers and businesses to enjoy gallery quality original artwork at home, rotate whenever they like, and build credits toward purchasing.

Let's Swap is a place where artists and designers swap art and art objects for free.

La Fabricicleta is a nonprofit bicycle repair educational organization. They are a group of volunteers who run a space in Buenos Aires, Argentina, filled with tools and stands for working on bicycles.

Members of the club share their homes with other members for holiday purposes. Different from home swapping as it's using a pool of houses and a credit system.

Bristol's Bike Project, from UK, provides 'free' bicycles to members of underprivileged and marginalised groups that would not otherwise have the opportunity to own one.

A community-based workshop from Aberdeen, UK, which is not only home to the bikes thay lend out for free, but also offers tools, spare parts and competent help to anyone coming down the road keen on fixing or building their own bike, helping out with the project or just looking for a place to make urban bike culture happen.

A Glasgow,UK based Community Social Enterprise run by volunteers that recycles bicycles from a variety of local sources and promotes safe cycling in town.

The Bike Station in Edinburgh and Perth, UK, is a bicycle recycling and cycling promotion charity. They provide cycle training, bike maintenance training, and refurbished bikes to promote cycling as a healthy and sustainable means of transport across Edinburgh, the Lothians, Perth and Kinross and beyond.

Bike Workshop at Kebele is a non-profit organisation in Bristol, UK, and part of the Kebele co-op. A group of volunteers teach bicycle repair and promote the use of cycles in the Easton area.

Mechanically-minded LCC volunteers in London, UK, offer support, advice & help for bike repair.

The BIKE WORKSHOP at 56a is a space in London, UK, run by volunteers for do-it-together repairs.

The Bike Co-op is a student-run organization located on campus at UBC, Vancouver BC, Canada. Their goal is to provide students and other campus members with an accessible environment where they can learn to fix bicycles, share resources, and build community.

The Bike Kitchen is a nonprofit bicycle repair educational organization. A group of volunteers teach in San Francisco in a space filled with tools and stands for working on bicycles.

The Bicycle Kitchen is a nonprofit bicycle repair educational organization. They are a group of volunteers who run a space in Los Angeles filled with tools and stands for working on bicycles.

Matches donators with time or goods to give with charities who need it.

Travel insurance for all is a small guide providing information about all travel insurance policy's, helping you chose the right travel insurance for your holiday or business travel. Find the right company in UK for which to buy travel insurance, decide what type of insurance offers you the best cover for your specific needs.

Toy Libraries are a fantastic reinvention of the public library. They allow families to rent toys for their pre-school children for fixed time periods reducing the amount of consumer products purchased for children who grow out of toys so quickly.

Local Bigwig is the world's first pay-for-performance website for the extended stay (1-9 months) furnished home rental market.

A free skool is a decentralized network in which skills, information, and knowledge are shared without hierarchy or the institutional environment of formal schooling.

We help customers to build they own rental business and distribute/exchange products around the world.

A site that shows what is available for sharing with others in your area. From books till garden equipment. -in Dutch

OhSoWe is a website for you, your neighbors, and your neighborhood. It helps us all re-discover the things we can do with each other. OhSoWe makes it easy to safely build bonds with your neighbors, save money, and increase our quality of life -- all this, while building our local communities and and saving the Earth’s resources. OhSoWe can share a meal with a neighbor. OhSoWe can easily borrow instead of buy that power drill. OhSoWe can organize a block party simply and easily.

diyFractional helps people share ownership of any type of infrequently used item by connecting them with like-minded partners, and providing the tools you need to manage the logistics of shared ownership.

Splitstuff is a free web service that helps people harness the power of local communities. It empowers local groups of individuals and businesses to cooperatively reduce expenses and live or operate in a more sustainable way.

Splitstuff is a free web service that helps people harness the power of local communities. It empowers local groups of individuals and businesses to cooperatively reduce expenses and live or operate in a more sustainable way.

Hi, have you heard of The Borrowers? They’re a new company based in the UK, set up to help people share and borrow all sorts of things including gardens, possessions, property and skills. I came across them after hearing their advert on Heart FM radio. The site, www.theborrowers.co.uk, is a lovely bright, colourful site and clear and easy to navigate.

Renting baby clothes

A vacation property sharing club.

The purpose of Community Earth Councils (CECs) is to increase the level of grassroots citizen engagement and to build more vital communities. We bring together young people and elders (our most vastly under-utilized but passionate and knowledgeable human resources) to create local initiatives to address the social and environmental challenges of our time. Organized by individual citizens as well as high schools, colleges, businesses, civic and fraternal associations, faith communities, and other organizations, CECs foster the arts of mentoring, group facilitation, and social entrepreneurship. Building on Utne Reader’s Neighborhood Salon movement, CECs enable people 50 and older to become true elders, while engaging the next generation in service projects that help them develop their gifts and find their place in the community.

Organic waste is collected from the streets, roads, garden prunings if no cost in exchange for setting up a network of composting and organic food change

mutantspace is a skills bank that provides people with free skills and resources so that they can produce their own arts projects and events no matter who they are, where they are or what they do

Keywifi is a resource-sharing platform that allows consumers of Internet to monetize their oversupply by letting anyone rent their wifi to others, making money for themselves and creating cheaper access..

Were ‘The AirBnb of Wifi’

KeyWifi.com allows users to pay as they go, using our unique web based platform that rents passwords using our patent pending SMS system.

The Wifi access suppliers have control of when and to whom they rent there passwords to and it’s far safer and more secure than Starbucks or any free wifi hotspot.

A Public Library where people leave books on bus stops for others to read. In a country where reading is not a common habit, the project has given culture and knowledge for commuters as they take a book on a bus stop and leave it on another one. There is no control and everybody can take and leave on the nearest bus stop just to share.

Cool new site! Givmo allows users to give away items they no longer need/want to other users for free. It's a perfect example of collaborative consumption. AND the best part is that you get "Karma Points" for every item you give away. Kinda awesome.

Friends with Things – www.friendswiththings.com - is a place where you can share things with, or borrow things from your neighbours for free – from bicycles to power tools, from cameras to sewing machines.

So it’s about collaborative consumption and sustainability – but there’s more to it than just helping the environment. At Friends with Things you’re also welcome to share your time, skills and expertise with the community – you can even share your local knowledge or connect with local people who share common interests.

It’s a small way we can all bring back that sense of community and neighbourhood that’s often missing from apartment complexes, city living and suburban sprawl – and a nice way to make friends with your neighbours.

A Brazilian website that gathers cultural projects which can be sponsored by anyone who wants to support the idea.

May apply for artists who want to record a CD, produce a theatrical performance and so on.

After writing the project, the author determines the minimum needed to make it happen. Then, a fundraising campaign is on air between 30 and 60 days.

If the total ammount is achieved, the sponsors receive rewards according to the size contribution (CDs, DVDs, photos, dinner, concert ticket, etc). If the total is not achieved, every sponsor gets the money back and the project is not realized.

a type of collaborative housing in which residents actively participate in the design and operation of their own neighborhoods

housebites is a social platform that enables people to share their experiences of dining and cooking both on and offline. It transforms the way we eat in and out via peer to peer table-sharing.

Swap your undressed (wrong size, wrong colour) quality clothes and be happy. Swap Club Italia allows to do that online and offline by organizing fashion swap parties. Sorry, it is in italian only (now).

I had got a desire to make my own firm, however I did not have enough of cash to do this. Thank goodness my close colleague said to use the mortgage loans. So I received the commercial loan and made real my dream.

We have been operating in the "sharing" philosophy since 2004. One of our sites is for life insurance, (I know... boring) but it was used to test the theory of collective purchasing,to date we have 50,000+ consumers who have benefited, I now plan to spread this out using the collective and turn more to ethics rather than profits.
We use all the commission life insurance companies provide brokers to reduce the premium for the consumer, on average saving 50% off the normal price.
I have undertakings from a number of insurers to use this model to save over Buildings insurance, car insurance etc, etc.
I support everything you have done to bring the awareness to the market, superb!.

All the best!

the team @ weshare.coop

A Crowdsourced platform for software testing

A multi-media campaign meant to raise awareness about the benefits of living a more collaborative lifestyle. The promotional pieces were designed not only to inform, but also to call to action. The campaign is meant to inspire and enable communities to grow as a whole. Target audience is new home-owners ages 25-35 in hopes that this campaign will encourage them to build a stronger sense of community in their new neighborhoods.

rentKart.com is an online portal which allows individuals to give or take items for rent.rentKart.com shows listings of all the items for rent at a given location along with their price, terms & conditions and available dates, conveniently mapped around the location of the user. Through the site user will get a better rental experience.

Objective : promoting more sustainable way of consuming.

Manodrabuziai is Lithuania's largest swapping platform for clothing, accessories and DIY fashion. It has subsidiaries in Germany (kleiderkreisel.de) and UK (friendlyfashion.co.uk).

City CarShare is a Bay Area nonprofit car share provider that provides hourly access to a fleet of fuel-efficient vehicles. Through our service & programs, we improve the environment and quality of life in our communities.

Connecting friends & products.

Keepio lets friends buy or sell items they want or own among other trusted friends. Collectors, homeowners, and gadget freaks use keepio to keep track of their goods and then buy, sell or share their belongings within public or private marketplaces.

Shareable is an online magazine about sharing. We cover the latest sharing innovations and produce sharing how-to guides. Check out our collection of how-to guides here: http://bit.ly/howtoshare

EcoSharing.net is the first sharing website that lets you share what you own with people you know and trust: your friends on facebook.

ecoSharing.net was recently recommended by Earth Hour (WWF) via their Facebook page.

I am convinced that encouraging people to share items instead of constantly buying new stuff will have a positive impact on the environment.

SwapSity is a Canadian bartering community that matches you with local swappers so you can save money and live greener.

A site for bike travelers to stop durring their bike trip and stay the night. There are about 15,0000 members mostly in Europe and the USA

It is an innovative p2p foreign exchange website that connects people who have different currencies and can exchange the money they need between themselves.

Hastings, UK, circa 1985! I joined baby sitting circle, received 20 tokens cut from vinyl floor tiles as currency to pay for service of another parent. 1 hour per token. Group met in school hols to introduce new members, kids played together, meet babysitters. Benefits: new friends, community feel, no strangers, no money needed, could ring round for 'work' if your stash of tokens was running low. Abusers of system quickly ran out of credit and took themselves out of group! Tried unsuccessfully to introduce system to Western Australia upon emigrating in 1988...

A small group of 4-5 farmers went together and purchased a hay baler and a silage cutter together and shared the use of it in the summer and fall. I don't know if this practice is still going on in other ways today. Today I think it would be custom work contracted from one owner of the equipment.

Cohousing communities are old-fashioned neighborhoods created with a little ingenuity. They bring together the value of private homes with the benefits of more sustainable living. That means common facilities and good connections with neighbors. All in all, they stand as innovative answers to today's environmental and social problems.

Dismantle is a grassroots not-for-profit, based in Fremantle, Western Australia. They are a community bike repair shop and are a collection of passionate young people who have set out to generate long-term social change.

A future where people recognize the boundless potential of everything and everyone. Through community based social initiatives we empower people to view opportunity where they once saw waste. Dismantle: break old habits, build bright futures.

Appears to facilitate collective solar purchasing in Australia

"a practice community that collaborates, supports, and relies on each other. We co-create opportunities for all members to make a living through living their purpose"

Trade what you have for what you need.

World Map of bike sharing systems around the world...

B-cycle is a next-gen bike-sharing system. In layman’s terms: B-cycles are magic bikes that are there when you want one and gone when you don’t. Just swipe your card, grab a bike, and get to where you’re going.

With capital city property prices becoming unaffordable for many younger Australians, these guys help friends work together to sustainably build a collective property portfolio without having to sacrifice too much of their lifestyle.

...because Madison needs more of both

Getting edible landscaping into Madison, WI city parks.

A simple way to find and post shared office space around the world.

A public bike share system that uses GPS, mobile communications, and a secure lock that can attach to almost any bicycle and lock to any regular bike rack

I raise $ each year for a cause and my favorite methods involve CC:
- I collect new and gently used DVDs, books and CDs from friends and sell them during the event. (I sell whatever's left in bulk either at local 2nd-hand media store or on craigslist.)
-Guests offer service/time and for a silent auction, e.g. haircut, clean garage, oil change, proofreading, musical performance, garden installation, etc.

A classic (or is it neo-classic) reworking of the car-hire business with vehicles parked in special carparks in the cities of Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, New Zealand. Use by the hour then drop it back.

SharedHarvest Connecticut helps you find locally produced food or donate food to those in need. It's like a local, online farmer's market and food-bank rolled into one.

A way for the food we eat to be collaboratively grown and shared in a small market town. Unused land is reclaimed and the food shared and exchanged. Every Egg Matters is current campaign.
It started in Todmorden but now growing to other places including in Spain!

Your marketplace for local services

Rehashing is an environmentally-conscious way to get rid of clothes and books you don't use in exchange for clothes and books you will use. You trade your stuff with others who are seeking a new library or wardrobe and in exchange revamp your collection.

A membership-based workshop that provides access to the latest tools and equipment that allows tinkerers to make things beyond their wildest dreams!

An Emissions Reduction Currency System. People in a community encourage each other to reduce consumption, plant trees, purchase offsets, instal alt. energy. Using Kyoto Protocol standards calculate GHG savings and every 10kg = 1 'dollar' in the scheme and is shared by the community. A way to create 'money' for use in the collaborative economy where straight trades can't be found. Other examples in the wikipedia definition of 'Emissions Reduction Currency Systems'. First suggested by Buckminster Fuller.

Also an iphone app, allows ppl with unwanted goods to give them away free to ppl who want them. Iphone app is linked with gps so you can find items being given away in your local area easily. Great!

ZipCar for stuff. Own less, do more.

A bicycle tour that takes you around inner-city Sydney, experiencing a world of food, history, transport and architecture through storytelling and skills sharing.

The audience become participants in this mobile, pedal-powered kitchen, sharing a meal along the way.

The Warm Showers Community is a free worldwide hospitality exchange for touring cyclists. People who are willing to host touring cyclists sign up and provide their contact information, and may occasionally have someone stay with them and share great stories and a drink.

The modern Men's Shed is an updated version of the shed in the backyard that has long been a part of Australian culture. (Low membership fee to use tools and equipment in supervised community shed)

The Sharehood is all about sharing resources within your neighbourhood and helps you to meet and make friends with people in your local area.

A great article in New York magazine with a lot of NY-centric (more like Brooklyn-centric) examples of CC

A nonprofit community currency and service exchange where members earn Hours for helping other members, and can then spend those Hours on any other service. Services range from healthcare to theater tickets to legal advice and garden help...you name it!

My favourite, favourite resource for anything peer-to-peer related. Hours and hours of nerding

Like Zipcar, but non-profit model

SwapYourShop is an online community for creative professionals that allows you to work remotely for your current employer while living in another city. With SwapYourShop, you'll connect to swap spaces - home and office - across the US or around the world.

P2P marketplace connecting property-owners with empty parking spaces with drivers needing somewhere to park

A company that lets you rent cars by the hour.