Archive For The “Collaborative Consumption” Category
(Thanks to Larry Ballis for contributing to our blog) Back in the days of the Great Depression and World War Two, people were told to share baths (no wonder there was a baby boom). If you are a student, then why not share a bath or shower with your partner to save money? Don’t [...]
Hey gang, Friday, October 26 is International Carpooling Day. Of course, there’s no better way of celebrating than by logging on and finding a new ridesharing partner. But we wanted to remind everyone of some of the benefits from traveling with others. 6 Reasons to Rideshare Save Money. The average American spends close to $9,000 [...]
Hitching a ride might become so easy in the near future that most people won’t even need to own a car, if the bright minds at Google are correct. Joe Kraus, a partner at GoogleVentures, predicts that within the next 5 to 10 years carpooling will become so popular and easy that the number of [...]
Usually, our cars are just gigantic vacuums for our cash. We’ve become accustomed to our cars being giant pits we throw our money into. According to AAA, the average annual cost of owning a car climbed to $8,946 this year. And that doesn’t even take into account tolls and parking costs. But what most people [...]
Yeah, okay, it’s a freaking commercial for America’s Got Talent. Still, it’s NBC getting behind the carpooling movement. You takes what you can gets. I don’t know that I’d want Howard Stern in the car with me, though. He’d probably insist on listening to himself on the radio. And doesn’t Howie Mandel have that weird [...]
There’s a great new article on reason.com by Greg Beato called “The Case for Carpooling 2.0”about the potential economic and environmental benefits of carpooling. The article is well worth reading in its entirety, but Beato does an excellent job of highlighting a few salient points. The first is that “the hundreds of millions of cars [...]
Not to toot our own horn or anything, but we were invited to post on Sustainable Brands last week on the subject of waste. Now, usually we tend to think of waste as being a physical by-product of some process: something to stored or recycled. But waste can also refer to unused capacity. Waste can [...]
You may have noticed some changes to the Amovens website recently, including the addition of the blog. Although we’ll certainly be using this space to keep you updated on new developments here at Amovens, we’d like to use this space as a forum for discussion on a variety of topics, just our latest widget or [...]
