Collaborative Consumption event on 16th March at NESTA

In registering with Eventbrite for a Collaborative Consumption event on 16th March at NESTA, I was asked to express my interest in the area.
Thus, I wrote (as Co-director and Timebanking Social Media Developer, Freelending CIC)

For four and a half years I've co-designed tools for the "sharing and gift economy" as recognised by Forum For The Future, a section in the book The Moneyless Man, The Guardian etc. Despite arranging networks of developers I've yet to see the serious wish to collaborate transcend the greed of ego, or anyone take sustainability seriously or start negotiating with the really big players (eg Facebook linked to Amazon linked to a database of all we own) who could theoretically network to replace much consumption with sharing.

Time Banking Explained

TimeBanking Explained in 53 seconds:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GpyQNsoipE&feature=youtube_gdata_player

More information and support for timebanking at:
http://stleonardssharing.info

& http://additionalinfo.blogspot.com

The idling time of your possessions

I'd really like to trust that it's not just lip service being paid to sustainability and transition and localisation and neighbourliness and caring & sharing. Please tell me what you did last week (or will do next week) to enable others to benefit from the idling time of your possessions (& so build social connectivity/social capital)? My intention is to put a minibus on http://streetbank.com & http://freelender.org so that it is available to the community or for family holidays etc - family sized tent & other camping equipment/ inflatable canoe included.

See http://southwatercentre.blogspot.com/2012/02/st-leonards-community-planning-event-on.html?m=1

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Cheers
Paul

http://additionalinfo. blogspot.com/2012/02/themes-of-my-work.html
How does this strike you?
Or if you want to go deeper:
1) What's new?
2) What's left unresolved from the past?
and/or 3) What's most important now?

Do let me know please if this email has been clear/helpful or not & what you would really like. Is that OK with you?

Tel 0780 70 66 202 for more connection than an e-mail; I'll probably have the spare minutes to call back.

Community Engagement and Community Development in Hastings and St Leonards:
http://additionalinfo.blogspot.com/2012/01/ community-engagement-and-community.html
& http://ethicaloutings.blogspot.com/p/links.html

Thank you for your time reading the whole email and following up what you were moved to do.

Awaiting news of UK AWARE 2012 as I usually organise a gathering of "sharing & gift economy developers" alongside this event; this will be year 3 for that and I hope that THE MONEYLESS MAN (Mark Boyle) will be there this time rather than in Portugal and on http://ted.com (More news to follow on http://Freelenders.blogspot.com)

Awaiting news of UK AWARE 2012 (sadly delayed from its usual April slot this year). Freelending Community Interest Company usually organise a gathering of "sharing & gift economy developers" alongside this event; this will be year 3 for that and I hope that THE MONEYLESS MAN (Mark Boyle) will be there this time rather than in Portugal and on http://ted.com, which was his 'excuse' last year for not being there.
(More news to follow on http://Freelenders.blogspot.com)

See http://southwatercentre.blogspot.com/2012/02/st-leonards-community-planning-event-on.html?m=1

[Default email template:]

Cheers
Paul

http://additionalinfo. blogspot.com/2012/02/themes-of-my-work.html
How does this strike you?
Or if you want to go deeper:
1) What's new?
2) What's left unresolved from the past?
and/or 3) What's most important now?

Do let me know please if this email has been clear/helpful or not & what you would really like. Is that OK with you?

Tel 0780 70 66 202 for more connection than an e-mail; I'll probably have the spare minutes to call back.

Community Engagement and Community Development in Hastings and St Leonards:
http://additionalinfo.blogspot.com/2012/01/ community-engagement-and-community.html
& http://ethicaloutings.blogspot.com/p/links.html

Thank you for your time reading the whole email and following up what you were moved to do.