The Web site for BIXI, the bicycle-sharing service in Montreal, announces “We are BIXI,” and this announcement is followed by a manifesto declaring what the members believe in: “Because we know that being part of the solution means knowing that great changes can arise from the smallest of actions done together. Because we’re thinking and behaving d

Collaborative Consumption is enabling people to realize the enormous benefits of access to products and services over ownership, and at the same time save money, space, and time;

“the confidence that we can get things when we need them, but we don’t need to have them sitting beside us every day.”15 Also, as these sites become hyper-local, we won’t have to travel long distances to pick items up or have them shipped.

If you decided to make the exchange, SwapTree generates the postage label, too (on average items cost $2.20 to mail). The

The trend experts call this dynamic “transumerism” and attribute its emergence to living in a consumer world with so many choices. The consumer culture of the last century has left us with a deep desire for choice. Product service systems can cater to the desire for “just one more” but without the creation of waste. The “what do we feel like today”

The motivation for hosts using Airbnb is typically a blend of making extra money and meeting new people.

The design world reinvents assumptions and recombines ideas to turn “What if?” and “How might we?” into “What we can do.” Design thinking will be critical in taking the world of Collaborative Consumption out of the realm of possibilities and into real workable solutions, solutions that fulfill our consumer whims, desires, and unarticulated needs, b

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But not only is Collaborative Consumption driven by consumer motivations that extend far deeper than cost savings, the habits started to stick and spread before the financial collapse of 2008. Economic necessity has just made people more