About Social Media Today
collaborative consumption
The Collaborative Economy
As our lives have become busier and our communities more fractured, we have lost access to the wealth of resources and opportunities that surround us. Fortunately though, the internet and social web provide us an opportunity to redesign the way we live and build community-based peer-to-peer economies that allow us to thrive within our means.[read more]
Beg, Borrow and Share: Leveraging Surplus Capacity in Cities
In an effort to create cities for the future - cities that will work for a new era of inhabitants - we can no longer employ the same prescription. A box store here, a school there, a library over there, all connected by automobile-centric roads just isn't going to cut it. These days, a growing number of people are learning to better...[read more]
The Explosion of 'Sharing'
I am a member of a student led city Bike Share scheme- ScratchBikes . The biggest positive for me about the scheme is that it shows that people's attitude to ownership is changing. You don't need to buy a bike any more- you can share one. As well as the health benefits - Bike Sharing has massive cost and environmental...[read more]
Sustainable Cities Collective
What's New on
“I agree I think that the nature of human interaction and involvement depends on the nature of the actual facility itself. Getting people in and around fossil fuel burning power plants is seen as a security risk, but that still leaves many components of our infrastructure that could benefit from being noticed (and that citizens could benefit from noticing). I think of examples like John ...”
“I thinks it's provocative. In Florida, we were given tours of muncipal water treatment facilities as children, less so access to energy facilities. There is a cogeneration facility at MIT that sits comfortably in the urban context, as thousands pass by daily. But I'm always concerned that critical systems and humans should not mix for the most part. Educational programs may make the same point ...”