Some corporate marketers are stepping out bravely, evidenced by the impending national rollout of RelayRides – peer-to-peer car sharing, courtesy of GM with partner OnStar – which tips a hat to the ...

This interactive infographic explains some of the benefits of car sharing, and how it’s taking off around the world. The Top 11 Collaborative Consumption Stories Of 2013 We're sharing more and more ...

Do you own a car? Where is it right this second? If the answer is “Parked somewhere,” entrepreneur Jessica Scorpio has a proposition for you: Why not put that car to work? As cofounder of the young ...

In April of 2000, on the spur of the moment, Casey Fenton bought a cheap airplane ticket to Reykjavik, Iceland, for a long weekend. At the time, Fenton was 22 years old and had no place to stay in ...

This is an edited excerpt from Pablo Barros' upcoming book, Behaviour change, consumption and sustainability: how companies can influence individuals in a world in transition*, due for publication in ...

Except for the super rich, frugal is the new black for many small-business owners and entrepreneurs. Doing more with less, but still succeeding, is the new American dream. Roughly a third of Americans ...

A few weeks ago, payments startup Stripe made it significantly easier for collaborative consumption startups to take and process payments. The company’s new technology allowed for payments to be ...

Everything, it seems, is becoming collaborative. From Airbnb to RentCycle to Zipcar, we are swapping our cars, our homes, even our clothes with each other. According to Lauren Anderson from ...

Buy, use and discard – the classic consumption model where products, and therefore raw materials, are used up in a short time span – is up for renegotiation. Our modern society is increasingly looking ...

I spoke this past week at the LeWeb conference in London, which was a superbly well run event with a very quality production team. Kudos. The 20-minute video of my presentation is here if you’re ...

Regardless of the economy, the United States is still a land of plenty. However, many Americans can no longer afford to continue to buy items that they use to buy. Smart entrepreneurs are focusing on ...

The building industry has been through the ringer in the Great Recession and contractors along with it, but tough times also help us to see new opportunities like finding new uses for wasted building ...