[sudo-discuss] This Former Accountant Wants You to Stop Buying Things and Start Borrowing Them — Make Change

[Cere Misc]

My hunch is that we should narrow the scope of lending to some form of
e-lending.

On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 4:14 PM, Romy Ilano <romy at snowyla.com> wrote:

> We had an inventory going on for a while that Marc brought over from his
> hackerspace in Denmark
>
> https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Inventory
>
> I'm pretty sure that this system could be used to create a lending
> library. Matt was pretty fanatical about organizing and cleaning but most
> of us dropped off
>
> I think if I could help it would be to help build a library of useful
> stuff and reduce e waste. A camping library would be cool: I have an extra
> sleeping bag. But it would be way more appealing for potential lenders if
> it was in an attractive box like at a store, decorated with art!
>
> Maybe my next sudoroom project along with animations !
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jun 18, 2017, at 4:04 PM, Cere Misc <cere.misc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This is actually really cool.  It’s something that sudo already does
> implicitly to some extent but we don’t really talk about for the purposes
> of fundraising.  We should.
>
> Actually, there are a lot of things like that, which sudo/we do but don’t
> market.  Another example is this: https://repaircafe.org/en/
>
> Another example is also in waste recycling.
>
> We’re both refreshingly and painfully low key in this way.  Would be good
> for us to itemize the ways we can boast about how restore the commons for
> our members with examples like this and many others.
>
> -Cere
>
> On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 3:24 PM, Romy Ilano <romy at snowyla.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> https://www.makechange.aspiration.com/articles/2016/11/23/
>> this-former-accountant-wants-you-to-stop-buying-things-and-
>> start-borrowing-them
>>
>> Cool stuff ! Would we ever build a lending library like this one at
>> sudoroom ?
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
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