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  • How to share: 350+ guides to help your community thrive

  • Our friends at Shareable have created these fantastic posts to help you save money, reduce waste, and build community through sharing—from food and family, to cities, housing, work, travel, technology and much more.

     

    Browse this comprehensive collection, and let us know how it goes!

     

    Get Started

    Six ways to start sharing
    Shareable’s Top 20 How To Share Guides
    Top Ten Ways to Save Money through Sharing
    The Gen Y Guide to Collaborative Consumption

     

    Housing

    How to create a tiny house village
    How to start a housing co-op
    How to share a house: A case study
    How to Stop Foreclosure through Homesharing
    How to Start Your Own Waterpod
    Six Ways to Stay Warm without Central Heating
    Panning for Gold: How to Find and Keep a Housemate
    How to Compost for Cohousing
    Homes on the Range: A Homesteader’s Manifesto
    How to Go Solar If You Can’t Put Panels on Your Roof
    How to Live Off-the-Grid in a Tiny House
    How to Divide Rent Fairly
    4 Simple Steps to Start a Move-Out Waste Program

     

    Food

    How to Share a Chicken (or Two)
    How to Raise Urban Chickens
    How to Start a Farmers’ Market
    How to Share a Cow
    How to Share a Vegetable Garden
    How to Start a Crop Mob
    How to Reinvent the Potluck
    The Shareable Feast
    How to Host a Stranger Dinner
    How Hosting a Babyfood Swap Saved My Sanity and Fed My Child
    Top 10 Tips for Starting a Campus Food Coop
    How to Grow a Garden on Your Balcony
    How To Host a MamaBake Food Swap Session
    Ingredients for a Successful Urban Kitchen Garden
    Food Swaps: Trading Tasty Treats Keeps Culinary Boredom at Bay
    How to Share Land
    How to Start a Crop Swap
    How to Have a Shareable Thanksgiving
    How to Dumpster Dive, Eat Free & Fight Waste
    How to Glean for Good
    The Anarchist’s Guide to Seed Sharing
    How to Enjoy a Free, Moveable Feast of Weeds
    How to Host a Permablitz
    How to Start a Grocery Co-op
    How to Be an Urban Fruit Forager
    How to Start the AirBnb of Kitchen Incubators in Your Community
    How to Host a Great Canning Session
    10 Steps Toward an Incredible Edible Town
    How to Share Your Meal with Strangers for Thanksgiving
    Want a Garden? 7 Easy Ways to Start for Non-Gardeners
    10 Shopping Tips from a Farmers’ Market Manager
    11 Tips for Running a Successful Food Waste Reduction Campaign
    How to Create a Free Farm Stand in Your Community
    How to Host a Seed Swap

     

    Family

    How I avoided holiday shopping through a donation exchange
    How to Share a Nanny
    How Hosting a Babyfood Swap Saved My Sanity and Fed My Child
    How to Start a Nature Group for City Kids
    How to Share an Education
    How to Throw a Toy Exchange
    How to Teach Your Kid to Share
    Make Your Holiday a Shared Affair
    How to Design Family-Friendly Transit
    How to Share School Transportation—and Why
    How to Raise Non-Competitive Kids
    DIY ‘I Do’: How to Plan a Shareable Wedding
    How to Have a Shareable Thanksgiving
    Five Easy Ways to Have a Shareable Halloween
    How to Create a Walking School Bus in Your Neighborhood
    Rethinking Mother’s Day: 6 Shareable Ways to Lighten Mom’s Load
    Webinar: How to Start a Childcare Cooperative
    5 Tips to Unbrand Your Kids
    How to Throw a Holiday Gift Swap

     

    Community

    How to Start a Gift Circle
    How to Barter, Give, and Get Stuff
    How to Start a Tool Library in Your Community
    How to Throw a House Concert
    How to Start a Really Really Free Market
    How to Start Your Own Skillshare
    How To Organize a Successful Skillshare

    Eight Ways to Share Your Stuff with the World
    How to Share a Chicken (or Two)
    How to Start a Farmers’ Market
    How to Throw a Community Swap Meet
    How to Share Time Through Timebanking
    How to (Legally) Open a Gift (Economy)
    How to Share an Education
    How to Host a Stranger Dinner
    The Shareable Feast
    How to Reinvent the Potluck
    How to Turn a Payphone Into a Library
    How to Start a Neighborhood Work Group
    How to Start a Critical Mass Ride
    How to Create a Successful Collective
    How to Start a Crop Mob
    How to Create Your Own Seed Lending Library
    How To Host a MamaBake Food Swap Session
    How to Throw a Succesful Yard Sale
    How to Share in a Dialogue Despite Differences
    How to Share the Big Stuff
    How to Manage Usage of a Shared Asset
    How To Share Land
    Ingredients for a Successful Urban Kitchen Garden
    Food Swaps: Trading Tasty Treats Keeps Culinary Boredom at Bay
    How to Start a Revolution
    How to Stage a Clothes Swap
    How to Stage a Media Swap
    How to Map Assets & Expose Real Wealth for Shared Futures
    Cultivating a Sustainable Community
    How to Host a House Concert
    10 Ways to Create Community in a Suburban ‘Hood
    How to Make a Party Box to Share with Your Neighbors
    Sunday Soup: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
    How to Host a Cash Mob
    How to Start a Community Currency
    How to Build a Vibrant Open Source Community
    How to Start Your Own Free Store
    The Anarchist’s Guide to Seed Sharing
    How to Make Better Decisions Together
    How to Host a Great Sharing Event
    How to Build Sustainable Communities – Let’s Collaborate NYC
    How to Organize a Citywide Garage Sale
    How to Host a Permablitz
    How to Change the World by Building a Swarm
    How to Start the AirBnb of Kitchen Incubators in Your Community
    How to Start a Community Land Trust
    10 Steps Toward an Incredible Edible Town
    How to Share Your Meal with Strangers for Thanksgiving
    How to Build Thriving, Resilient Communities
    Learn to Jam: 20 Tips for Making Music with Friends
    How to Integrate Gift Circles into Any Community
    10 Steps to Running an Offers and Needs Market
    How to Create a Free Farm Stand in Your Community
    10 Steps to a Healthier Community through Social Marketing
    How to Host a Seed Swap
    So You Want to Build a Little Free Library?
    16 Tips to Crowdfund a Tool Library in Your Town

     

    Cities

    How to Organize a ShareFest
    Host Guide for the Sharing Cities Map Jam
    How to Design Cities to Counter Racism
    How to Swap Cities
    7 Ways to Reinvent Your City, Burning Man Style
    How to Create Abundant Cities
    12 Nifty Ideas to Improve Your City
    How Tax-Sharing Can Save Cities
    How to Design Family-Friendly Transit
    How to Create a Bike Corridor
    How to Be an Urban Change Agent, Shareable Style
    How to Start Participatory Budgeting in Your City
    Ingredients for a Successful Urban Kitchen Garden
    How to Fall in Love With the Place You Live
    How to Be a Citizen Placemaker: Think Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper
    How to Map the New Economy in Your City
    How to Create Engaging Public Spaces
    How to Host a Permablitz
    How to Create Abundant Cities
    7 Bike Commuting Tips for First Timers
    10 Steps Toward an Incredible Edible Town
    How to Get the World Walking
    5 Ways to Bring More Bike Lanes to Your Community

    How to Trick Out Your Bus Stop
    How to Turn a Bus Stop into Art
    How to Apply Plaza Principles to Transit Hubs
    How to Make Transit Hubs Safer for Everyone Using Intersection Repair
    How to Create a Network of “Sharing Stops” for Expanded Transit Access
    How to Free the Soil by Depaving

     

    Neighborhoods

    How to Plant a Habitat Garden at the Local Playground
    How to Start a Neighborhood Work Group
    How to Build a Better Neighborhood
    How to Create Your Own Seed Lending Library
    How to Make a Street Carfree
    How to Turn a Payphone Into a Library
    How to Help Your Neighbors Go Solar
    How to Design a Neighborhood for Happiness
    How to Encourage Recycling in Your Neighborhood
    How to Build a Better Block
    10 Ways to Create Community in a Suburban ‘Hood
    How to Kick Off a Shareable Spring
    Bring Transition Town-Style Sharing Into Your Community
    How to Make a Free Things Box
    How to Host a Permablitz
    10 Steps Toward an Incredible Edible Town
    How to Build Thriving, Resilient Communities
    How to Negotiate a Communities Benefit Agreement
    How to Get the World Walking
    How to Design a Shared Backyard
    How to Free the Soil by Depaving
    How to Set Up a Neighborhood Exchange Box in 4 Easy Steps
    How to Start a Social Street

     

    Transportation

    How to Be a Carfree Family
    How to Share Your Car with a Stranger
    How to Share a Car (Part I)
    How to Share a Car (Part II)
    How to Make a Street Carfree
    How to Design Family-Friendly Transit
    How to Share School Transportation—and Why
    How to Carpool with Strangers
    How to Improve Bike Signage
    How to Create a Bike Corridor
    How to Drive Your Car with an iPhone
    The A-B-C of Winter Biking
    12 Nifty Ideas to Improve Your City
    How to Run a Bike Valet
    How to Become a Tech Nomad
    How to Start Your Own Car Sharing Program
    How to Make a Community More Walkable
    How to Build a Bike-Portable Rolling Cart
    How to Share Your Car Like a Pro in 5 Easy Steps
    7 Bike Commuting Tips for First Timers
    Cycling Etiquette
    Five Crucial But Easy Bike Maintenance Tips
    How to Share Your Parking Space
    Introducing People to Bike Riding (Without Ruining Their Day)
    5 Ways to Bring More Bike Lanes to Your Community
    14 Ways to Make a Protected Bike Lane
    How to Trick Out Your Bus Stop
    How to Turn a Bus Stop into Art
    How to Apply Plaza Principles to Transit Hubs
    How to Make Transit Hubs Safer for Everyone Using Intersection Repair
    How to Create a Network of “Sharing Stops” for Expanded Transit Access

     

    Technology

    How to Help Your Neighbors Go Solar
    How Social Media Shapes Offline Reading
    How to Find Jobs Through Social Media
    How to Start Your Own Waterpod
    How to Drive Your Car with an iPhone
    Keeping New Year’s Resolutions With Social Media
    I Made An iPad eBook in One Weekend (And You Can Too!)
    How to Set Up An Open Mesh Network in Your Neighborhood
    How to Share an eBook
    How to Learn from Open Resources Online
    How to Run a Successful Crowdfunding Campaign
    Hacking the Commons: How to Start a Hackerspace
    How to Join the Open Wireless Movement
    How to Build a Vibrant Open Source Community
    How to Create an eBook the Open Source Way
    Four Ways to Escape the NSA Dragnet
    How to Choose An Open Source Hardware License
    How to Choose An Open Source Software License
    7 Ways to Lead ‘Swarmwise’ in a Networked World
    10 Steps You Can Take Right Now Against Internet Surveillance
    How to Build a FabLab
    How Non-programmers Can Contribute to Open Source Projects
    10 Ways to Get Started with Open Source
    How to Write Your Book Using Linux
    How to Integrate Open Collaboration into Your Project
    How to Make a Collaborative Video in 7 Steps
    How to Convert Facebook Fans to E-mail Subscribers in 5 Easy Steps

     

    Work

    How Nonprofits Can Share Down Their Costs (Part I)
    How Nonprofits Can Share Down Their Costs (Part II)
    How to Find Jobs Through Social Media
    How to Hire for a Democratic Company
    How to Share Your Job Search
    How to Promote New Ideas at Work
    How to Design a Workspace for Sharing
    How to Foster Passion on the Job
    How to Live Your Values at Work
    How to Foster Dialogue at Work
    How to Vote for Your Boss
    How to Decentralize Your Company Structure
    How to Democratize Corporate Ownership
    How to Make Employees Feel Secure During Tough Times
    How to be Open with Financial Information
    How Companies Can Help Balance Work and Life
    How Can Companies Promote Pay Transparency?
    How Big Companies Can Embrace Everyone’s Ideas
    How to Jelly: A Guide to Casual Coworking
    How to Share a Job
    How Gen Y Can Create Its Own Stimulus Package
    How To Convince Your Boss To Let You Cowork
    Four Steps to Being a Great TaskRabbit Poster
    Become a Super-Savvy TaskRabbit Poster
    A Coworkers Guide to Slaying Procrastination
    Five Ways to Cultivate Gratitude at Work
    10 Creative Ways to Reuse Extra Office Supplies
    How to Share Your Office Space the Right Way
    How to Build a Collaborative Hub in a Rural Setting
    The 10-Step Guide to a Successful Coworking Space
    How to Convert a Business into a Worker-Owned Cooperative
    How to Host a Conference Gift Economy Style
    10 Lessons from Kenya’s Remarkable Cooperatives
    7 Ways to Create a More Democratic Nonprofit
    Top 10 Tips for Running a Coworking Space at Home

     

    Entrepreneurship

    How to Launch Your Startup Idea for Less than $5K
    Five Ways Crowdsourcing Can Accelerate Your Start-Up
    How to Swap Cities
    How to Start a Worker Co-op
    How to Run a Bike Valet
    How to Make a Franchise Shareable
    How to Create Your Own Green Job
    How to Create a Pop-Up Coworking Space
    How to Start a Rural Coworking Community
    Designing Workspaces for Collaboration
    How to Earn $1000s as a Micro-Entrepreneur
    Turn Your Coworking Space Into a Sharing Hub
    How to Crowdfund Your Campaign or Nonprofit
    How to Create a Lively Peer-to-Peer Marketplace
    How to Build Trust in the Sharing Economy: Cartoon Edition
    How to Start the AirBnb of Kitchen Incubators in Your Community
    How to Build a FabLab
    How to Finance Your Start-Up on Shareable Terms
    10 Surprising Ways to Turbocharge Your Social Venture on Social Media
    The 10-Step Guide to a Successful Coworking Space
    How to Convert a Business into a Worker-Owned Cooperative
    8 Best Practices for Creating a Peer-to-Peer Marketplace
    How to Run a Business in the Gift Economy
    Top 6 Tax Tips for Sharing Economy Micropreneurs
    Top 10 Tips for Running a Coworking Space at Home

     

    Travel

    How to Swap Cities
    How to Become a Technomad
    The Ultimate Guide to Traveling Without Money\

     

    Education

    Go Tiny for New Year’s Resolutions that Work
    How to Share an Education
    The Sharing Economy Back to School Survival Guide
    Learning Outside the Academy
    How to Learn from Open Resources Online
    Design It Yourself
    Five Ways to Save the Commons on Your Campus
    Liberate Education: How to Start a Free School
    How to become a lawyer without going to law school
    A Guide to Free and Open Source Education
    11 Ways to Create a Totally Shareable College Experience

     

    The Commons

    How to Design the Commons (or, Elinor Ostrom Explained!)
    Five Ways to Save the Commons on Your Campus
    The Anarchist’s Guide to Seed Sharing
    How to Increase Public Land-Sharing in Austin, Texas
    How to Free the Soil by Depaving
    How to transform plastic “waste” into a bottle brick
    How to Start a Social Street

     

    Money

    How to Not Pay Taxes
    Top Ten Ways to Save Money through Sharing
    The Quickstart Guide to Peer-to-Peer Lending
    How to Start a Community Currency
    How to Invest in Good: Energy Efficiency
    How to Invest in Good: Community Development Banks and Credit Unions
    5 Best Practices for Peer-to-Peer Lending
    10 Ways to Democratize the Economy
    How to Host a Cash Mob

     

    Miscellaneous

    The Top 6 Tips to Sharing & Community for Lifestyle Designers
    A Guide to Sharing for Every Season
    Go Tiny for New Year’s Resolutions that Work
    How to Keep Sharing Safe
    Keeps Your Whites Whiter and Your Skin Itchier
    How to Make Art Out of Trash
    Shareable’s Top 5 Alternatives to Holiday Shopping

    Six Ways to Celebrate Earth Day with Permanent Change
    How to Start a Repair Cafe
    How to Change the World by Building a Swarm
    How to Be a Whistleblower and Protect Yourself
    How to Date Without Money
    How to Start a Reusable Takeout Container Program at Your College
    WTF Am I Supposed to Do with My Family on Black Friday?
    Six Habits of Highly Grateful People
    What’s in your happiness toolbox?
    10 Steps to Get Media for Your Sharing Event
    4 Simple Steps to Start a Move-Out Waste Program
    15 Ways to Create a Summer of Sharing
    How to Use the Media for Social Change
    How to Throw a Holiday Gift Swap

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