Sharing Economy (3/5/13)

Climate One

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4.7 • 583 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2013

⏱️ 38 minutes

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“The distribution centers of the future are our closets and garages,” says Andy Ruben, co-founder of sharing start-up Yerdle. Entrepreneurs like Ruben are tapping into social media circles as a way to connect members to a wealth of sharing options. “Data, in many ways, is the gateway drug to the sharing economy,” says Lisa Gansky, Author of “The Mesh”. Other entrepreneurs like Billy Parish, Co-Founder and President of Solar Mosaic, are “unlocking the ability of individuals to participate in the investment process.” Crowdfunding seems to be the next wave of the sharing economy with opportunities ranging from peer-to-peer investment and Solar Mosaic’s own solar investment projects. A conversation on the exciting possibilities of a growing sharing economy. This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club of California on March 5, 2013 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.2	Can we create a healthy and clean economy?
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1:08.0	Our consumer economy is so wedded to purchasing products and owning them that it's hard to
1:12.2	imagine any other way of satisfying our needs and desires.
1:16.1	When consumers buy less stuff, the economy suffers.
1:20.4	Now entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and around the country are creating new technologies
1:23.8	and companies enabling people to share or rent, not buy. The sharing economy is hot,
1:29.8	and hundreds of startups are sprouting up for items that are expensive to own and used infrequently.
1:35.4	Cars, designer gowns, power tools, fancy cooking utensils, you name it. These internet-enabled
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