One of us grew up in hippie-dippy NorCal, the other in libertarian-nutjob Alaska so Neighborrow is right up our alley.
The concept: Facilitate the sharing of resources with your community. You create a profile, find a ‘neigborrowhood’ to join, list a few tools and stuff you offer to share, get access to what others in the ‘hood are making available. The promise: The collective gets stuff done without buying more stuff. The challenge: Logistics of connecting to get the ‘stuff’ and making sure people don’t take it/ruin it/sell it on Craigslist.
We have no idea if it will work — but we created a CHS Capitol Hill neighborrowhood and have put up our list of assets to share including a canoe, soccer nets, a ladder, a cordless drill, a ladder, a push mower, an electric weed whacker, a fishing pole and, yes, a crappy old Toyota pick-up. Basically, everything you’d need for a fun weekend in NorCal or nutjob Alaska.
Cool idea. I wish I had more tools to really participate, but I’ll probably sign up with what I have anyway.
Are you for real?! I could totally use a pickup truck for about an hour…
Phinney Neighborhood tool bank?
How about raising money for an apple press, then meeting at various street ends or alleys in the fall to press neighbors’ apples. (There are a lot of apple trees around here.) Sort of a nail soup thing, but with the chance of fermentation.
Holy crap, this is awesome.