Lawrence Alvarez is the Co-Founder of The Toronto Tool Library, a collaborative resource sharing project with two locations in Toronto. Canada Curator Lucy Gao spoke with Lawrence to discuss the growing success of the Tool Library, collaborative consumption in Toronto, and the rise of a new resource-based economy. How does the Tool Library work? Members… Read more
April Rinne recently participated in a cross-country tour of Canada promoting Shareable Cities, speaking in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver. The tour was co-hosted by Social Innovation Generation (SIG) and Cities for People, a new innovation platform that aims to create more resilient and livable cities, with support from The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation. A key… Read more
Toronto is the largest city in Canada and one of the most multicultural cities in the world. The city has a thriving sharing economy, enabling residents to share everything from tools to backyards, board games to cars, and everything in between. This list features the companies, organizations and spaces that make Toronto a shareable city…. Read more
As a follow up to my Top 10 Reasons Why 2014 Will Be the Year of Shareable Cities post, comes this list. It is intended to serve as a guide for policy-makers and cities worldwide. Expect more Shareable Cities posts from Collaborative Lab soon. A Shareable City looks at multiple aspects of urban planning and… Read more
April Rinne, Chief Strategy Officer of Collaborative Lab, will discuss how the collaborative economy has the potential to transform how we design products and services, create sustainable and “shareable” cities, re-imagine public services, reduce waste and connect communities.Using a wide array of innovative examples from around the world — from transportation to office space to… Read more
Peer-to-peer sharing organization Unstash has created a Google map of the sharing economy in their home city of Toronto, Canada. They were inspired by a Shareable post on “How to map the new economy in your city.” Mapping out cities is an effective way to keep track of sharing organizations and businesses, as well as giving them an opportunity… Read more
“The City of Vancouver is helping fund new research into growing the local sharing economy. Vancouver is already home to car-sharing and office-sharing. Now, researchers with The Sharing Project are looking to identify further demand through focus groups, interviews and surveys.” – CBC News Vancouver will be the latest city to join the ranks of a… Read more
Based in Toronto, Canada, Trashswag ‘reports’ on items that are being thrown out, offering images and information about the quantity and quality of the goods. These reports can be submitted by anyone, so if a person passes by an unwanted item on the street they can send a report through the app. Those interested in… Read more
The easiest way to explain Swapsity is … a Canadian swapping economy that lives both online and offline. The site enables people to trade pre-loved things, talents and time or share their rarely used stuff. We also stage large-scale swap meets where the community comes together to swap and actively participate in Collaborative Consumption, live… Read more