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COMMUNITY SHARING

Community sharing innovators offer hope to amplify the best aspects of the Sharing Economy – many explicitly adopt practices that enhance a range of ecological, social and economy sustainability goals. These actors are a diverse set of individuals and organizations focused at more local scales that currently use digital technology more modestly and emphasize in-person connection. Non-monetized transactions are more dominant.​
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Key recommendations to advance urban sustainability:

  • Prioritize support for Community Sharing innovators who promote reuse, borrowing, swapping, repair and maintenance of goods, combined with educational efforts to promote buying less and smarter.
  • Enable Community Sharing by supporting a sharing inventory and web page, promoting events and ideas, and acting as a facilitator and connector.
  • Consider incubating and/or coordinating Fix-It Clinics.
  • To scale Community Sharing, shift to community-based behaviour change, support expansion into new neighborhoods, help innovators get better organized, and provide underutilized public spaces and municipal infrastructure.
  • Consider adopting a more systematic, on-line approach to sharing spaces for Community Sharing innovators modeled on the UK Space for Growth programme. 

What to watch out for:

  • Missing out on the opportunity Community Sharing presents to foster healthy, connected communities while promoting other goals such as more affordable living, reducing eco-footprints, and supporting business and workforce development. 
  • Getting too fixated on understanding the impacts on city priorities upfront; instead tie them into pilot project efforts and/or engage innovators to help measure impacts.
Thank you to The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation for supporting this roadmap and project as part of Cities for People.  
​The LGSE roadmap was developed and written by One Earth.