{"id":13141,"date":"2011-07-25T13:17:02","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T19:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sustainablog.org\/?p=13141"},"modified":"2011-07-25T13:17:02","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T19:17:02","slug":"sharing-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/sharing-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sharing Economy: a Marketplace in our Own Neighborhoods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TEDxSoMa - Randy White - The Sharing Economy: &#039;Plan B&#039; For Moving America Forward\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p2yXFmcl7V8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So, let&#8217;s imagine the worse-case scenario for the next week: no agreement comes out of negotiations over the US debt ceiling, the stock and credit markets tank, and we&#8217;re all left holding some devalued cash. How will we take care of the basics such as food, shelter, clothing, and transportation?<\/p>\n<p>Grab a gun? Break into a grocery store? Squat in an empty house or building? Yep, these are pretty extreme measures&#8230; that, no doubt, some will take should the economy collapse. Sister site <a href=\"http:\/\/insteading.com\/2011\/07\/24\/can-sharing-save-us-if-the-u-s-monetary-system-collapses\/\">Insteading<\/a> came across a very different approach: the sharing economy. Essentially, all that stuff we&#8217;ve all got (or our talents, or our labor) become our &#8220;cash&#8221;&#8230; and, through small-scale organization (think neighborhoods), we share what we have with those around us (and they do the same in return).<\/p>\n<p>Sound sustainable? Realistic? Randy White, the founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brightneighbor.com\/\">BrightNeighbor<\/a>, thinks so, and shared his ideas in a recent TEDx talk. Take ten minutes to watch, and share your thoughts&#8230; can we pull together in this way if it becomes necessary? And, if we can, could we start before it becomes necessary?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Image credit: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/orcmid\/1053793481\/in\/photostream\/\">orcmid at Flickr<\/a> under a <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/deed.en\">Creative Commons license<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, let&#8217;s imagine the worse-case scenario for the next week: no agreement comes out of negotiations over the US debt ceiling, the stock and credit markets tank, and we&#8217;re all&nbsp;[ &hellip; ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":16812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,13],"tags":[5191,5192,5193,5194,5195],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Sharing Economy: Plan B for Economic Collapse<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Does economic collapse have to result in chaos? 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