The recent changes in our economic landscape have only exposed and intensified a phenomenon: an explosion in sharing, bartering, lending, trading, renting, gifting, and swapping. You can see this, even in Melbourne with the bike sharing program in the CBD. This quick video explains and explores the idea of consumption and how we can change the way we live.
It’s a preface to Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers book, ‘Whats Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption’. Using their website Collaborative Consumption they’re reinventing not just what we consume but how we consume.