Sharing Goods

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. (Used Car, Home Buying)

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

Newer ideas:

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


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