Wednesday, October 24, 2012

recyling of a new kind...great

the trend towards "collaborative consumption" — technology-enabled sharing and renting of goods — is one of the most heartening environmental trends. Startups like Swap.com allow users to arrange trades of books, movies and CDs, letting us share media rather than buy it. And new sites like SnapGoods can help you rent stuff — iPads, robot vacuums, camping equipment — from others in a peer-to-peer fashion. You can even rent out your car — or rent another person's car — by the hour with RelayRides. It's green, but it also appeals to the desire for community we all feel. That's win-win.

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