Tag: Product Service Systems

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  P2P Car Sharing Has Just Launched in Spain, an Interview with SocialCar

  After car sharing services like ZipCar or BMW's New Car Share that lets you pick up and drop a car anywhere you want, it is no surprise that Person to Person car sharing is growing too. This works a bit like couchsurfing; I have an empty couch, you

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  Worn Again Equip Eurostar Staff With Upcycled Bags Made From Their Old Uniforms

  Good news today as another sustainable design concept becomes reality. Upcycling company Worn Again have equipped 250 Eurostar train managers with some rather smart bags made from old staff uniforms. It's been a long journey

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  Plug In! First Electric Motorcycle Charging Stations in Barcelona

  The other day, coming back from the beach, I saw some strange looking parking icons painted on the street; motorbikes with a plug! And indeed it seems to be happening now, Barcelona has launched its first electric

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  Barcelona Gives Away 'Olipots' To Promote Kitchen Oil Recycling

  The mediterranean cuisine is known to be one of the healthiest, and yet, Spaniards like their fried tapas or churros every now and then. In 2010 the recycling centers, called 'Green Points', collected 195.136 liters of used

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  Shop for Good Ideas: The Unreasonable Institute Finalist Marketplace is Open

  The Unreasonable Institute needs your help: the Boulder-based program is down to 45 finalists, but relies on the public to choose the 25 fellows who actually make it into the fellowship.

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  Beware Excess Capacity - the Guest Bedroom as Enemy of Sustainability

  With the holidays over, many of us are returning from visits with family and friends. And while some of us will have crashed on couches, camped on the floor, or taken over our uncle's

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  Any ideas for a more sustainable mobile telecom industry? (Video)

  Here's a challenge for the new year: Help co-design solutions for mobile phones to improve sustainability. Imagine a phone that does not need to be charged, one that measures the drinking water quality in remote areas,

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  Green Overload: 5 Green Products We Don't Need More of

  At TreeHugger, it seems every week there's a press release for a new line of reusable bags or organic body care.

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  The Mesh Explains Why the Present and Future of Business is Sharing (Book Review)

  Lisa Gansky sees a new emerging business model emerging. One she has dubbed, The Mesh. "... one in which consumers have more choices, more tools, more information, and more power to guide those choices." A model

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  New Soap, Old Bottle. Detergents now come in a Heineken, Coke or Dr. Pepper Bottle

  Researching innovative packaging solutions the other day, I stumbled on New Soap, Old Bottle. Similar to this green way of drinking (old bottles, fresh wine), Scott in the States sells new liquid soap packaged in old plastic bottles. That way, he saves

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  Exclusive Preview: Urbikes Trapper, the First Intelligent Electric Public Bicycle Sharing Systems

  What characteristics should the perfect public bicycle have? A minimum of mechanical maintenance, maintenance-free shaft transmission, solid tires to avoid punctures, a theft-free design and an

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  Roo Rogers on the Rise of Collaborative Consumption (Podcast)

  Photo credit: Andrew Zuckerman "The great success of hyper-consumption in the 20th century was persuading consumers that sharing is somehow akin to being either a hippie or a communist," says Roo Rogers. "The 21st century is about realizing that sharing

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  Libraries as the Next Big Pop Culture Phenomenon

  We just noted the rising popularity of e-books as Amazon announced sales of digital books have consistently surpassed sales of hardcover books. However, don't think libraries will turn to ancient ruins quite yet. Pop

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  Designing Out Waste in Industry Becomes a Priority for Big UK Businesses

  This week a new report has been published by UK environmental think tank Green Alliance which unites top UK businesses on a mission to design out waste in industry. The report is called A Pathway To Greener Products and calls on the new coalition

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  Here's an Idea: Share Things with Your Neighbors

  Sure, we have Zipcar, bike sharing, and even tool shares, but Good wants to know why this sort of thing isn't more popular.They say:

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  Design for a Shareable World

  TreeHugger gives a lot of pixels to Product Service Systems , a dreadful name for what is basically sharing things. As Alex Steffen asked in the Worldchanging book, why buy a drill when what you really want is a hole? Why own things that you use

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  Nike Strategizes on Deep Green Future

  At the Pop!Tech Conference this year, one thing to come out of the event are the new Labs that Pop!Tech will be holding to find solutions to many of today's resource use 'issues.' Nike was first

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  Why Buy When You Can Rent? 5 Product Service Systems I Wish Were More Common

  One of top things you can do to make your life a bit greener is cut down on stuff. Limit your purchases to things you really need, really use and will last a while. Making it more difficult is that some of the things that