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The Sharing Solution: How to Save Money, Simplify Your Life & Build Community
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Product Description
From cars and tools to housing and childcare, many people would like to share resources but don't know how--or where--to start. The Sharing Solution is a timely practical and legal guide that explains how to create and maintain successful sharing arrangements while addressing common concerns about liability, communication, and more.
This book will help anyone share:
The Sharing Solution speaks to Americans' growing desire to not only live more sustainably, but also save money and create stronger communities. Sharing is a simple step anyone - young or old, rich or poor - can take, right now, to make a difference.
Who can benefit from sharing?
The authors, attorneys Janelle Orsi and Emily Doskow, bring a visionary spirit to developing practical, logistical, and legal frameworks for many types of sharing arrangements.
In the book, you will find:
The ultimate beauty of sharing is that it's a solution we create for ourselves. It's not a government program, nor is it the "latest and greatest" product marketed to us on billboards. It's a solution based on our own needs and lifestyles, in our own communities. It's a way for each of us to shape our own lives in positive ways and simultaneously benefit the world as a whole. In that respect, sharing is more than a simple trend: Some might even say our society is moving toward a sharing revolution. We hope you'll use The Sharing Solution to become part of it.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #280180 in Books
- Published on: 2009-05-18
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 480 pages
Features
- ISBN13: 9781413310214
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Editorial Reviews
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"This canny, thorough book offeres detailed advice on how to make clear sharing agreements and minimize potential confusion and conflict." (ERNEST CALLENBACH, author of Ecotopia and Ecotopia Emerging )
"[G]reat practical advice on how to act on our best instincts toward sustaining our society as well as ourselves in the 21st century." (BRUCE SIEVERS, Senior Fellow, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisers; Visiting Scholar, Stanford University )
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From the neighborhood level to the global, sharing may be the single most important strategy to reduce our environmental impact, gain financial health, promote equity and have fun. The Sharing Solution provides valuable advice and how-to tips for seasoned sharers and new converts. T his book is a tremendously valuable resource for us all, and a must-read for those who want to chart a new path: a more sustainable, more compassionate and more fun one.
About the Author
Attorney Janelle Orsi runs a solo law practice specializing in non-profit, small business, and real estate law, focused on helping people to share resources, build community, and live more sustainably. Emily Doskow is a practicing attorney specializing in family law, including adoption, parentage issues, domestic partnership formation and dissolution, and divorce. She is the author of Nolo's Essential Guide to Divorce and the editor of many Nolo titles. Both live in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Customer Reviews
Sharing, it's the Thing to Do
A couple years ago I went fishing with a group of girls in Lareto, Mexico. It was a vacation away from both the work and the men in our lives. We were five and we stayed in a cheap motel by the waterfront and we went out in small boats early in the morning and fished the day away. At night we pooled our catch and shared it with some of the locals, who managed to take what we'd caught and turn it into a veratible feast night after night.
And as the yellow sun faded from the sky, someone would get the extension cords, others would bring out the chairs from their homes as a couple men would bring out a television and fifteen or twenty people would sit outside in the evening's heat and watch. These people were poor. Sharing was a way of life for them. And you know, they seemed happy.
In the Sharing Solution, you'll learn that sharing is work. There is a certain amount of trust required and sometimes agreements need to be drawn up. But you will save money, however even if saving money isn't your goal, you'll make friends and we can never have enough of those.
There are four hundred or so pages on sharing in The Sharing Solution and they cover just about every aspect of just about anything you'd care to share, from ride sharing etiquette to running a co-op. The book is full of practical advice and though not everything here will apply to everyone, I think there is plenty here that anyone can use. If you want to save some money, make some friends and go a little green, give this book a look. You won't be disappointed.
super helpful
i bought this because my girlfriend and i are thinking of purchasing some land together with friends. not only did it answer my questions, but it really got me thinking about how to share even more stuff. the authors seem to be incredibly knowledgeable about this subject, and i appreciate that there are some lawyers out there who care about the world. like they said, it's not just a financial benefit, but it also creates community.
This Old Dog Learned Some New Tricks
I don't expect to embrace sharing as an entirely new way of life, but this book helped me see many new ways I can share more than I do now. It's causing me to think and consider how I can help myself, help others, and help the planet. The book gives me the tools I will need to forge new relationships that will endure and surmount the inevitable messiness of human interactions. Well researched and very readable. All in all, I think this book is a fresh breeze!
