The sharing economy: a low-hanging fruit for sustainability

A sharing economy frees up capital and human resources because there is necessarily less demand for new things. We need to reallocate these resources to improving the quality and performance of the existing built environment.

Generally speaking, we only occupy one of our spaces at any given time and use our belongings and infrastructure for an hour or less per day, writes Liam O'Brien. Photograph courtesy of Commons Wikipedia

Opinion

BY LIAM O’BRIEN

May 7, 2018

With the strong focus in Canada and globally on improving environmental sustainability, there is far too much emphasis on trying to make business-as-usual more efficient instead of also being smart. Utilization of infrastructure—and the built environment in general—remains very low. For...

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