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It takes a village to plan a kids party
We organize everything for our children. However we don’t always have the resources at our disposal to simply purchase everything. When it comes to large and important life events such as birthday...
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Naughty or nice? Lendogram helps you lend – and return! – your holiday haul
By Valery Navarrete “Can I borrow that when you’re done with it?” “Call me anytime you need to use it . . . no sense both of us owning one of these!” If you’re anything like me, these are sentences you...
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Lendogram an app for parents – Happily Blended
Lendogram iOS app was reviewed by Happily Blended last December: Lendogram is a brilliant app for your iOS based smartphone where you can find friends who need the items your family has outgrown, and...
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Sharing communities are happier and stronger
When we think of communities, what do we think of? Villages – for one. The modern community however, is much more different, usually organized along lines of ethnicity, religion, or gender identity,...
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Car Ownership or Car Sharing: What’s Best for You?
It starts in childhood with your first scooter. Then, your first bike. Years later, your first car. Regardless of age or lifestyle, most people need a way to get around. Car sharing services are...
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The intrinsic vs. market value of what you own
Have you ever considered why you pay more for some goods, rather than others, and how the prices for these goods are made, and more importantly: What do they mean? The answer here; simply put, is...
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The Culture of Collaborative Consumption
Ever wonder what collaborative consumption has in common with students living together in college apartments, the hospitality and tourism industry, and New York cabbies? And when we think of...
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Communities Matter
The estates and flat complexes of 1980’s Ireland, although often facing social problems and poverty in their own right, were also thriving, vibrant and convivial places to grow up. Children would roam...
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Library of Things
As we head into the new future of consumerism and increased personal gain, are there any places in our communities, lives and homes that we can share? A place where one can lend, borrow, and trust in...
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A Green Valentine: Love More, Waste Less
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner! What are your plans to show your love? Before you take the credit card out to show your love with buying stuff, let us suggest something a little different....
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The Value of Generosity
Very often, we find ourselves at the short end of the stick in a deal, bargain, or enterprise, or even simple transactions in our daily lives. Sometimes, we feel cheated of our rightful estates,...
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Ursus maritimus Day – International Polar Bear Day
February 27th is International Polar Bear day, and if you’ve been reading the news, 2015 was the hottest year ever on record, in our world history. What does it all mean? Warmer summers, wetter winters...
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The Consumerist Paradox
What does it mean to consume, why, and how does it fit into the system of capitalism based on monetary value as a trade currency, and why it feeds itself to potential undoing. To start off – we need to...
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Why be a Locavore and eat locally grown food
What it is to be a locavore, and why locally grown agriculture is great for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. To be fair, and to not subscribe and add to the misinformation hawked by hoax science and...
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Peer-to-Peer Library of Things
We’ve talked about libraries of things – and here we have our very own app for you to start your very own library of things! A library of things is simple, and like any other library, a sorted...
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Why the Sharing Economy is Here to Stay
Lyft, Coursera, Taskrabbit, Airbnb, Zipcar? You may have seen these names, heard about them on the news, or used their services. These services are all manifestations of what’s called the Sharing...
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How to Travel Green!
Travelling is a luxury our ancestors way back before air travel and globalization didn’t have. But, now we do have this luxury, and we should enjoy it to the fullest, albeit responsibly, and in an as...
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The Wealthy Poor
Ironic isn’t it? How can one be wealthy, yet poor? Before you think that this is just another post on how society lacks values and morals while it’s so materially rich, read on. We now are at an age of...
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Earth Day 2016
With April 22nd drawing near, let us talk a little about Earth Day! Did you know that the first Earth Day was celebrated in 1970, almost fifty years ago? Back then, it was a day proposed to honour...
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Celebrate Earth, One Share at Time
As winter gives way to spring, and eventually summer, let’s reflect on how nature affects us all, and conversely, how we affect it. The snow is melting, and the sun is getting stronger, and it’s time...
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