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Ours is Better Than YoursBy Ray Tomalty

Overview

Introduction

A Variety of Sharing

How You Can Share

It’s Not Always Easy

Conclusion/Questions

Introduction

Acquisitiveness: excessive interest in acquiring money and material things.

We have been trained to desire and dispose products without a second thought about the development or where it goes.

However, it appears many cultures are stating to recognize the need for change.

Global sharing economy is now valued above US$110 billion.

A Variety of Different SharingThere are 3 types of sharing this article addresses:

1. Positive-Sum Sharing

2. Non-Zero-Sum Sharing

3. Zero-Sum Sharing

A Variety of Different Sharing

Everybody has a different line when it comes to sharing; Some will go as far as sharing underwear or even a toothbrush.

There are so many things we can share: Bikes, books, cars, clothing, food, ideas, music, taxis, timbits, tools, toothpaste,ect. What is the biggest thing we all share?

Our Biosphere

How You Can Share

Ways of participating in the sharing economy:

1. Product Service Systems

2. Redistribution Markets

3. Collaborative Lifestyles

(Share your time)

How You Can Share

Ownership is not a requirement to get the benefits out of a service or product, but a requirement of ownership is upkeep.

When you own you have to: Clean, Repair, Care For, Store, Refurbish, and in some cases, insure.

Sharing Extracts the Maximum Use of what we already have

How You Can Share

Communauto is a product service system that was founded in 1994 in Quebec by B. Robert

Tecsult Inc. Conducted a study in 2006 about how Communauto member decrease their carbon footprint.

Car sharing has become increasingly popular over the last two decades.

The number of cars on the road is reduced and driving is limited by company restrictions.

It’s Not Always Easy

There is a certain risk when you share something.

You can’t trust everyone.

Some legal barriers have been developed.

It’s Not Always Easy

Legal example: the 2010 state law that makes it illegal for property owners to rent rooms for less than 30 days in New York.

Many, if not all, big-ticket-item renters have to consider insurance to cover all possible damages.

There are times that sharing just doesn’t make sense.

Conclusion There are many

different ways to share

Although we share every day we could always do more

It is possible to work with or around the difficulties

Sharing will drive us through a sustainable revolution

Questions?