One path toward Sustainable Capitalism might be to increase the SharIng of physical goods, rather than having energy going into making/transporting new ones that get little use.

One model is serial ownership - one person uses an object for a big chunk of time, then passes control to a different person. ([UsedCar], [Home Buying])

• one sub-model of this is donating used goods to the Third World - e.g. Eye Glasses and Cell Phone-s

• [Book Crossing]: leave a book that you've finished sitting somewhere for someone else to read and [Pass Along]. http://www.bookcrossing.com/

More-granular-time-sharing is more interesting. Some old examples:

• Real Estate - vacation homes time-share

• ???

Newer ideas:

• BiCycle-s/[Bike Share] http://web.mit.edu/dzshen/www/about.shtml

  • [Paris France] - not free http://www.springwise.com/transportation/city_bike_schemes_update_from/

  • GooGle [Intra Campus] loaners

• Auto Mobile-s (in Amsterdam) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_sharing

  • low-cost rental - [ZipCar]/[FlexCar], etc.

  • Slugging (instant-[CarPool]-ing for CommUte) http://www.slug-lines.com/Slugging/About_slugging.asp

  • [Ride Sharing] http://future.iftf.org/2007/04/ride_sharing_pa.html

    • the Italian Design School [IDII] worked on a [Share Way] concept for Fiat.

  • TaxI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share_taxi

  • MIT [Smart Cities] [CityCar] concept

• home-maintenance appliances (hedge trimmer, etc.)

  • tool libraries http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/000469.php

[Trend Watching] briefing on [Transum Er]-s http://www.trendwatching.com/trends/transumers.htm

• update - they tend to focus on stupid trendy [LuxUry] goods

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