Welcome to our growing collection of how to share posts, which can help you save money, reduce waste, and build community through sharing. In fact, Shareable’s co-founder Neal Gorenflo made new friends and saved $17,000 in 2011 during his “Year of Living Shareably.” Try one of the guides and let us know how it goes.
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Six Ways to Start Sharing A Free Beginner’s Guide to the Sharing Economy Shareable’s Top 20 ‘How To’ Share Guides Top Ten Ways to Save Money through Sharing The Gen Y Guide to Collaborative Consumption
How to create a tiny house village How to Start a Housing Co-op How to Share a House: A Case Study How to Stop Foreclosure through Homesharing How to Start Your Own Waterpod Six Ways to Stay Warm without Central Heating Panning for Gold: How to Find and Keep a Housemate How to Compost for Cohousing Homes on the Range: A Homesteader’s Manifesto How to Go Solar If You Can’t Put Panels on Your Roof How to Live Off-the-Grid in a Tiny House How to Divide Rent Fairly 4 Simple Steps to Start a Move-Out Waste Program
How to Share a Chicken (or Two) How to Raise Urban Chickens How to Start a Farmers’ Market How to Share a Cow How to Share a Vegetable Garden How to Start a Crop Mob How to Reinvent the Potluck The Shareable Feast How to Host a Stranger Dinner How Hosting a Babyfood Swap Saved My Sanity and Fed My Child Top 10 Tips for Starting a Campus Food Coop How to Grow a Garden on Your Balcony How To Host a MamaBake Food Swap Session Ingredients for a Successful Urban Kitchen Garden Food Swaps: Trading Tasty Treats Keeps Culinary Boredom at Bay How to Share Land How to Start a Crop Swap How to Have a Shareable Thanksgiving How to Dumpster Dive, Eat Free & Fight Waste How to Glean for Good The Anarchist’s Guide to Seed Sharing How to Enjoy a Free, Moveable Feast of Weeds How to Host a Permablitz How to Start a Grocery Co-op How to Be an Urban Fruit Forager How to Start the AirBnb of Kitchen Incubators in Your Community How to Host a Great Canning Session 10 Steps Toward an Incredible Edible Town How to Share Your Meal with Strangers for Thanksgiving Want a Garden? 7 Easy Ways to Start for Non-Gardeners 10 Shopping Tips from a Farmers’ Market Manager 11 Tips for Running a Successful Food Waste Reduction Campaign How to Create a Free Farm Stand in Your Community How to Host a Seed Swap
How I avoided holiday shopping through a donation exchange How to Share a Nanny How Hosting a Babyfood Swap Saved My Sanity and Fed My Child How to Start a Nature Group for City Kids How to Share an Education How to Throw a Toy Exchange How to Teach Your Kid to Share Make Your Holiday a Shared Affair How to Design Family-Friendly Transit How to Share School Transportation—and Why How to Raise Non-Competitive Kids DIY ‘I Do’: How to Plan a Shareable Wedding How to Have a Shareable Thanksgiving Five Easy Ways to Have a Shareable Halloween How to Create a Walking School Bus in Your Neighborhood Rethinking Mother’s Day: 6 Shareable Ways to Lighten Mom’s Load Webinar: How to Start a Childcare Cooperative 5 Tips to Unbrand Your Kids How to Throw a Holiday Gift Swap
How to Start a Gift Circle How to Barter, Give, and Get Stuff How to Start a Tool Library in Your Community How to Throw a House Concert How to Start a Really Really Free Market How to Start Your Own Skillshare How To Organize a Successful Skillshare Eight Ways to Share Your Stuff with the World How to Share a Chicken (or Two) How to Start a Farmers’ Market How to Throw a Community Swap Meet How to Share Time Through Timebanking How to (Legally) Open a Gift (Economy) How to Share an Education How to Host a Stranger Dinner The Shareable Feast How to Reinvent the Potluck How to Turn a Payphone Into a Library How to Start a Neighborhood Work Group How to Start a Critical Mass Ride How to Create a Successful Collective How to Start a Crop Mob How to Create Your Own Seed Lending Library How To Host a MamaBake Food Swap Session How to Throw a Successful Yard Sale How to Share in a Dialogue Despite Differences How to Share the Big Stuff How to Manage Usage of a Shared Asset How To Share Land Ingredients for a Successful Urban Kitchen Garden Food Swaps: Trading Tasty Treats Keeps Culinary Boredom at Bay How to Start a Revolution How to Stage a Clothes Swap How to Stage a Media Swap How to Map Assets & Expose Real Wealth for Shared Futures Cultivating a Sustainable Community How to Host a House Concert 10 Ways to Create Community in a Suburban ‘Hood How to Make a Party Box to Share with Your Neighbors Sunday Soup: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is How to Host a Cash Mob How to Start a Community Currency How to Build a Vibrant Open Source Community How to Start Your Own Free Store The Anarchist’s Guide to Seed Sharing How to Make Better Decisions Together How to Host a Great Sharing Event How to Build Sustainable Communities – Let’s Collaborate NYC How to Organize a Citywide Garage Sale How to Host a Permablitz How to Change the World by Building a Swarm How to Start the AirBnb of Kitchen Incubators in Your Community How to Start a Community Land Trust 10 Steps Toward an Incredible Edible Town How to Share Your Meal with Strangers for Thanksgiving How to Build Thriving, Resilient Communities Learn to Jam: 20 Tips for Making Music with Friends How to Integrate Gift Circles into Any Community 10 Steps to Running an Offers and Needs Market How to Create a Free Farm Stand in Your Community 10 Steps to a Healthier Community through Social Marketing How to Host a Seed Swap So You Want to Build a Little Free Library? 16 Tips to Crowdfund a Tool Library in Your Town
How to Organize a ShareFest Host Guide for the Sharing Cities Map Jam How to Design Cities to Counter Racism How to Swap Cities 7 Ways to Reinvent Your City, Burning Man Style How to Create Abundant Cities 12 Nifty Ideas to Improve Your City How Tax-Sharing Can Save Cities How to Design Family-Friendly Transit How to Create a Bike Corridor How to Be an Urban Change Agent, Shareable Style How to Start Participatory Budgeting in Your City Ingredients for a Successful Urban Kitchen Garden How to Fall in Love With the Place You Live How to Be a Citizen Placemaker: Think Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper How to Map the New Economy in Your City How to Create Engaging Public Spaces How to Host a Permablitz How to Create Abundant Cities 7 Bike Commuting Tips for First Timers 10 Steps Toward an Incredible Edible Town How to Get the World Walking 5 Ways to Bring More Bike Lanes to Your Community How to Trick Out Your Bus Stop How to Turn a Bus Stop into Art How to Apply Plaza Principles to Transit Hubs How to Make Transit Hubs Safer for Everyone Using Intersection Repair How to Create a Network of “Sharing Stops” for Expanded Transit Access How to Free the Soil by Depaving
How to Plant a Habitat Garden at the Local Playground How to Start a Neighborhood Work Group How to Build a Better Neighborhood How to Create Your Own Seed Lending Library How to Make a Street Carfree How to Turn a Payphone Into a Library How to Help Your Neighbors Go Solar How to Design a Neighborhood for Happiness How to Encourage Recycling in Your Neighborhood How to Build a Better Block 10 Ways to Create Community in a Suburban ‘Hood How to Kick Off a Shareable Spring Bring Transition Town-Style Sharing Into Your Community How to Make a Free Things Box How to Host a Permablitz 10 Steps Toward an Incredible Edible Town How to Build Thriving, Resilient Communities How to Negotiate a Communities Benefit Agreement How to Get the World Walking How to Design a Shared Backyard How to Free the Soil by Depaving How to Set Up a Neighborhood Exchange Box in 4 Easy Steps How to Start a Social Street
How to Be a Carfree Family How to Share Your Car with a Stranger How to Share a Car (Part I) How to Share a Car (Part II) How to Make a Street Carfree How to Design Family-Friendly Transit How to Share School Transportation—and Why How to Carpool with Strangers How to Improve Bike Signage How to Create a Bike Corridor How to Drive Your Car with an iPhone The A-B-C of Winter Biking 12 Nifty Ideas to Improve Your City How to Run a Bike Valet How to Become a Tech Nomad How to Start Your Own Car Sharing Program How to Make a Community More Walkable How to Build a Bike-Portable Rolling Cart How to Share Your Car Like a Pro in 5 Easy Steps 7 Bike Commuting Tips for First Timers Cycling Etiquette Five Crucial But Easy Bike Maintenance Tips How to Share Your Parking Space Introducing People to Bike Riding (Without Ruining Their Day) 5 Ways to Bring More Bike Lanes to Your Community 14 Ways to Make a Protected Bike Lane How to Trick Out Your Bus Stop How to Turn a Bus Stop into Art How to Apply Plaza Principles to Transit Hubs How to Make Transit Hubs Safer for Everyone Using Intersection Repair How to Create a Network of “Sharing Stops” for Expanded Transit Access
How to Help Your Neighbors Go Solar How Social Media Shapes Offline Reading How to Find Jobs Through Social Media How to Start Your Own Waterpod How to Drive Your Car with an iPhone Keeping New Year’s Resolutions With Social Media I Made An iPad eBook in One Weekend (And You Can Too!) How to Set Up An Open Mesh Network in Your Neighborhood How to Share an eBook How to Learn from Open Resources Online How to Run a Successful Crowdfunding Campaign Hacking the Commons: How to Start a Hackerspace How to Join the Open Wireless Movement How to Build a Vibrant Open Source Community How to Create an eBook the Open Source Way Four Ways to Escape the NSA Dragnet How to Choose An Open Source Hardware License How to Choose An Open Source Software License 7 Ways to Lead ‘Swarmwise’ in a Networked World 10 Steps You Can Take Right Now Against Internet Surveillance How to Build a FabLab How Non-programmers Can Contribute to Open Source Projects 10 Ways to Get Started with Open Source How to Write Your Book Using Linux How to Integrate Open Collaboration into Your Project How to Make a Collaborative Video in 7 Steps How to Convert Facebook Fans to E-mail Subscribers in 5 Easy Steps
How Nonprofits Can Share Down Their Costs (Part I) How Nonprofits Can Share Down Their Costs (Part II) How to Find Jobs Through Social Media How to Hire for a Democratic Company How to Share Your Job Search How to Promote New Ideas at Work How to Design a Workspace for Sharing How to Foster Passion on the Job How to Live Your Values at Work How to Foster Dialogue at Work How to Vote for Your Boss How to Decentralize Your Company Structure How to Democratize Corporate Ownership How to Make Employees Feel Secure During Tough Times How to be Open with Financial Information How Companies Can Help Balance Work and Life How Can Companies Promote Pay Transparency? How Big Companies Can Embrace Everyone’s Ideas How to Jelly: A Guide to Casual Coworking How to Share a Job How Gen Y Can Create Its Own Stimulus Package How To Convince Your Boss To Let You Cowork Four Steps to Being a Great TaskRabbit Poster Become a Super-Savvy TaskRabbit Poster A Coworkers Guide to Slaying Procrastination Five Ways to Cultivate Gratitude at Work 10 Creative Ways to Reuse Extra Office Supplies How to Share Your Office Space the Right Way How to Build a Collaborative Hub in a Rural Setting The 10-Step Guide to a Successful Coworking Space How to Convert a Business into a Worker-Owned Cooperative How to Host a Conference Gift Economy Style 10 Lessons from Kenya’s Remarkable Cooperatives 7 Ways to Create a More Democratic Nonprofit Top 10 Tips for Running a Coworking Space at Home
How to Launch Your Startup Idea for Less than $5K Five Ways Crowdsourcing Can Accelerate Your Start-Up How to Swap Cities How to Start a Worker Co-op How to Run a Bike Valet How to Make a Franchise Shareable How to Create Your Own Green Job How to Create a Pop-Up Coworking Space How to Start a Rural Coworking Community Designing Workspaces for Collaboration How to Earn $1000s as a Micro-Entrepreneur Turn Your Coworking Space Into a Sharing Hub How to Crowdfund Your Campaign or Nonprofit How to Create a Lively Peer-to-Peer Marketplace How to Build Trust in the Sharing Economy: Cartoon Edition How to Start the AirBnb of Kitchen Incubators in Your Community How to Build a FabLab How to Finance Your Start-Up on Shareable Terms 10 Surprising Ways to Turbocharge Your Social Venture on Social Media The 10-Step Guide to a Successful Coworking Space How to Convert a Business into a Worker-Owned Cooperative 8 Best Practices for Creating a Peer-to-Peer Marketplace How to Run a Business in the Gift Economy Top 6 Tax Tips for Sharing Economy Micropreneurs Top 10 Tips for Running a Coworking Space at Home
How to Swap Cities How to Become a Technomad The Ultimate Guide to Traveling Without Money
Go Tiny for New Year’s Resolutions that Work How to Share an Education The Sharing Economy Back to School Survival Guide Learning Outside the Academy How to Learn from Open Resources Online Design It Yourself Five Ways to Save the Commons on Your Campus Liberate Education: How to Start a Free School How to become a lawyer without going to law school A Guide to Free and Open Source Education 11 Ways to Create a Totally Shareable College Experience
How to Design the Commons (or, Elinor Ostrom Explained!) Five Ways to Save the Commons on Your Campus The Anarchist’s Guide to Seed Sharing How to Increase Public Land-Sharing in Austin, Texas How to Free the Soil by Depaving How to transform plastic “waste” into a bottle brick How to Start a Social Street
How to Not Pay Taxes Top Ten Ways to Save Money through Sharing The Quickstart Guide to Peer-to-Peer Lending How to Start a Community Currency How to Invest in Good: Energy Efficiency How to Invest in Good: Community Development Banks and Credit Unions 5 Best Practices for Peer-to-Peer Lending 10 Ways to Democratize the Economy How to Host a Cash Mob
The Top 6 Tips to Sharing & Community for Lifestyle Designers A Guide to Sharing for Every Season Go Tiny for New Year’s Resolutions that Work How to Keep Sharing Safe Keeps Your Whites Whiter and Your Skin Itchier How to Make Art Out of Trash Shareable’s Top 5 Alternatives to Holiday Shopping Six Ways to Celebrate Earth Day with Permanent Change How to Start a Repair Cafe How to Change the World by Building a Swarm How to Be a Whistleblower and Protect Yourself How to Date Without Money How to Start a Reusable Takeout Container Program at Your College WTF Am I Supposed to Do with My Family on Black Friday? Six Habits of Highly Grateful People What’s in Your Happiness Toolbox? 10 Steps to Get Media for Your Sharing Event 4 Simple Steps to Start a Move-Out Waste Program 15 Ways to Create a Summer of Sharing How to Use the Media for Social Change How to Throw a Holiday Gift Swap
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