“What is a sustainable lifestyle? What will our daily lives become if we agree to change some of our routines? How do we reduce our environmental impact without lowering our living standards” These are some of the questions being asked by the Sustainable Everyday Project in a book called Collaborative Services.
The book explores something close to our hearts here at the Hub. How social innovation and infrastructure for sharing resources (like say office and meeting space) could create not only a more sustainable, but also a more satisfying and joyful life. The lovely book (which we are looking at ordering for our library), contains multiple scenarios of how collective services like car-sharing, tool-sharing and studio-sharing could help spark a revolution in sustainability and lead to exciting new design challenges.
You can order Collaborative Services on-line or download it for free.
On two related notes:
SHARING in HALIFAX | The Hub and Car Share Halifax are working together to build a culture of innovation around sharing and if you join both you will receive $100 off your yearly Car Share membership and $100 off your first 3 months at the Hub.
DESIGNING the FUTURE | The Hub is co-hosting 4 Days of Forward Thinking October 21-24. 4 days will connect our province’s citizens,
decision makers and leading creative lights to talk about the power of design to reshape economies, improve public services and add to our
quality of life. Stay tuned for more information.