Now try "Collaborative Consumption"

Here's a related business concept to excess capacity, called collaborative consumption.

A young man in our community asked Julie and TAP, our local progressive organization, about working with young people on creating a rental store.  People would loan or donate items for which they have at the house but do not use regularly, like a turkey pot, or a hole digger.

Whenever you need something, you rent it instead of buying it.  Gen Y is reducing tangible goods, reducing wasteful consumption, lowering environmental pollution.  This is a great exciting new idea. Go for it kids!

Comments

[BrianBell]

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[Nike Australia]

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[D. P. Lubic]

Ugh, green hair. . .bet that girl will look at that photo and others with horror in later years, especially if she has children who see it and say, "And you tell us we're silly?"

Rentals of things that cost money aren't too unusual in the equipment field. It's long been possible to rent ditch digging machines, chain saws, welding gear, certain electric power tools, and the like from equipment rental companies. Much of their clientele are professionals in the home repair business; a plumber took care of a plugged drain for me with a rented electric "snake," something he apparently didn't want to pay to own. At the same time, these rental firms will also loan out equipment to "civilians."

Some of it was fairly sophisticated stuff, I hope their "civilians" had some knowledge of how to use it. I'd be mighty leery of something like a chain saw.

Anyway, like you, I wish the kids the best. . .