低调消费,或者说午餐女郎与社交网络业力有何关系。
物品。我们都在不断积累,最终对它们产生各种各样的情感依恋。(可以说,这是因为20世纪的营销机器已经让我们养成了这种习惯。)但数字平台和云工具让我们越来越容易拥有想要的一切,而无需真正拥有它们。正如《连线》杂志创始人、著名未来学家凯文·凯利曾经说过的那样,“使用权胜于所有权”。以下七项服务将帮助你减少碳足迹、减轻经济负担,并通过共享的力量让你摆脱物品的束缚。
邻里商品
攀比的时代已经过去,与邻居建立联系的时代已经到来。NeighborGoods 正是这样一个全新的平台,让你能够与邻居互借物品,而不是购买新东西。 (对了,你买的那台只用了两次的高级搅拌机现在怎么样了?)从割草机、自行车到 DVD,这家位于洛杉矶的初创公司自诩为“借用版的 Craigslist”,让你既能省钱又能赚钱。
透明的用户评分、交易记录和隐私控制使共享过程变得简单安全,而自动日历和提醒则确保借出物品的安全归还。
不妨试试NeighborGoods,为你的公寓楼、校园、办公室或读书小组创建一个共享群组——你的钱包和社交生活都会感谢你。
更新:根据联合创始人下面的友好评论,我们应该澄清一下,NeighborGoods 还允许您从一开始就导入您的 Twitter 和 Facebook 好友,这样您就可以立即拥有一个可以分享的群组。
Snapgoods
与 Neighborgoods 类似, SnapGoods也允许你在社区内进行物品租赁、借用和出借。SnapGoods 更进一步,将“社区”的概念扩展到你所在的本地群体——例如邻里、办公室或公寓楼——以及你在网络上各个可靠角落的社交圈。该网站完全集成了 Facebook 和 Meetup,将你的社交圈延伸到了云端。

您可以浏览您所在地区的人们正在借出的物品,或者看看他们需要什么,如果您有合适的物品,可以伸出援手(或者提供一台缝纫机,视情况而定)。
土地共享
自己种菜是每个都市潮人的梦想。但问题在于,你得先有地方种。虽然在防火梯上种一盆樱桃番茄总比什么都没有强,但这远远不够。Landshare应运而生,这是一个简单却巧妙的平台,它将有志种植的人与拥有闲置土地的地主联系起来。
虽然目前仅在英国可用,但我们希望看到 Landshare 本身,或者至少是其背后的理念,能够尽快传播到世界各地。
交换树
交换树 Swaptree 是一个简单却巧妙的平台,用于交换你不再需要的媒体收藏品——从书籍、DVD 到黑胶唱片——以便你寻找下一个心仪之物。自从我们近三年前首次报道Swaptree 以来,该网站已促成约 160万笔交易,为用户节省了约 1030 万美元,同时减少了 930 万吨的碳排放。
Swaptree 的灵感来源于创始人的母亲们,她们与闺蜜们的午餐约会演变成了图书交换俱乐部。Spaktree 确保你和最新一季的《24小时》之间唯一的障碍就是邮费。
礼品流
我们大多数人都熟悉转送礼物的概念。(并非不敬,但好朋友和好品味之间的脱节有时确实令人震惊。)幸运的是, GiftFlow允许你用自己不需要的礼物换取别人不需要但你喜欢的礼物。该平台基于一种因果信誉系统,你的个人资料会显示你赠送和接受的所有礼物,通过透明度建立起一种隐性的信任体系。
所以,奶奶,尽管放马过来吧。把你最近送的那些可爱却又有点不靠谱的礼物展示给我们。说不定,有人会为了那个俗气的音乐盒拼命呢。
ZIPCAR
我们非常支持自行车共享,但迄今为止,这一概念尚未超越地域限制。虽然像巴黎、阿姆斯特丹和丹佛这样的城市有幸拥有蓬勃发展的自行车共享项目,但我们尚未看到任何一项服务能够覆盖所有地区。在此之前,我们只能选择次优的共享出行方案: Zipcar ,一项全天候按需汽车共享服务,让会员可以灵活地使用遍布美国、英国和加拿大的数千辆汽车。Zipcar已经运营多年,大多数人都已有所了解,因此我们不再赘述,但可以肯定的是,这项服务是目前最有希望在不减少实际驾驶员数量的前提下,缓解城市交通拥堵和污染的解决方案。
分享一些糖
借我点糖吧,我是你邻居。这不仅仅是Outkast的一句歌词,更是“分享一些糖”的灵感来源——通过分享物品和资源来颂扬邻里情谊。与SnapGoods和NeighborGoods类似,这项服务让你可以在邻里或朋友圈内借用、租赁和分享物品。
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想了解更多关于资源共享文化的内容,请观看瑞秋·博茨曼在TEDxSyndney上的精彩演讲。她的新书《 我的就是你的:协作消费的兴起》将于两周后上市,绝对值得一读。
更新: Botsman 的著作《 我的就是你的:协作消费的兴起》现已出版,并迅速入选我们 2010 年商业、生活和思维领域最佳书籍候选名单。
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your swaptree link is pointing to the wrong web address. should be http://www.swaptrees.com/ ;-)
Life is good for those who look at it so.
Seven ways to have more and owning less is a wondeful idea. When I was a child this practice was very much alive in rural India. When a guest come to neighbour's house, that aunt will rush to my mother asking for half a cup of milk. Some days my mom used to borrow bucket to fetch water from the well. My brother always used to borrow his freind's bicycle to reach me to the railway station. Now I live in a metro city called Bangalore, India. More than ten million people, many dont knwo who is your neiughbour, what they are. Many dont even smile at each other. Vey suspecious and selffish. I want to move to my village again shortly. When? I dont knwo!!!
Does anyone remember or has heard of the Whole Earth Catalog?!
Indeed giving is a virtue which is worth emulating.Except something of value leaves, you can gain nothing
Dont forget paperbackswap swapacd and swapadvd all great.
What a great article!!! Thanks for all the good examples of ways to share and repurpose goods/services. I live in Skagit County, WA, and we have an online sharing group called Freecycle. The idea is that all week long you post stuff you want to give away. On Fridays you're allowed to post items you want. This is a vibrant and active network that has done a lot of good.
These and many other similar practices were common place in India. But in aping the modernism of the west we have discarded many of these. Now we have to learn them from the west. how funny.
Following the same idea as Landshare, there is a website called Hyperlocavore (http://hyperlocavore.ning.com) that connects gardners without land to landowners without gardens. It includes all of the U.S., but I don't think it has any geographical limitations.
I would like to suggest sharing with people who have few possessions through donating to charities, especially those that send clothes to the Third World - why burden friends with the stuff we want to shed ourselves? That does not strike me as a loving action. If a charity sells things in a UK charity shop, bothering to use the Gift Aid scheme means they get greater value from what they sell.
This concept was a thought at the back of my mind since I was young and which I never really shared with anyone till now, since all these years, I never saw anyone actually sharing anything with anybody, except for a few good samaritans who had a mindset like mine. Kudos to your movement!