What’s mine is yours

May 28, 2010 by Dirk Singer

Is the title of an upcoming book by Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers about the shift from hyper to ‘collaborative’ consumption – so the rise of everything from freecycle to car sharing clubs like Streetcar, to bike rental and sharing schemes (the latest of which was launched in London).

This  accompanying promotional video (via SoundLounge) explains more:

Collaborative Consumption Groundswell Video from rachel botsman on Vimeo.

Some stats from the video:

• The estimated worth of the car sharing market by 2015 US$12.5 billion
• ‘Freecyle’ is now the third most searched environmental term after global warming and recycling but ahead of ‘earth’
• Over 9.1 million items are gifted every year through freecycle, piling them in a rubbish / garbage truck would result in them reaching 7x the height of Mt Everest
• Local farmers’ markets in the US?  In 1994 there were 1755, in 2009 there were 5274 meaning there are now 1000 more farmers’ markets than Walmart in the States
• Peer to peer lending is predicted to reach $5.8 billion by the end of 2010 = 10% of the US personal loan market
• Couch surfing (where you go on holiday but stay on someone’s couch) gets an average of 40 million online page views a day