A presentation of 20 slides each lasting 20 seconds that was recently used to introduce the emerging #SharingEconomy to an audience in London from the Jewish Community.

1. David Brown
Social Action Coordinator, JHub
@liveinthegrey @BigGreenJewish
facebook.com/BigGreenJewish
Jewishgeekandproud.wordpress.com

2. #SharingEconomy

3. The challenge?
Me too!
I’m bored!

4. The challenge: Hyper consumption
Over the last three decades we shifted from being
consumers to being turbo consumers…We stopped
comparing ourselves with the Joneses and attempted
instead to match up to the Beckhams
- Neal Lawson, All Consuming

5. The challenge: Degradation of earth and its natural resources

6. The challenge: Consumer economies create wealth & jobs
„cos we are living in a material world
and I am a material girl

7. The idea: From ownership to access
“Fancy cars that go very fast,
You know, they never last, no no”

10. The idea: From stuff to experiences

11. The idea: Giving people what they want NOW

12. The idea: Empowering people, generating trust and building community

13. Is this Jewish? Well it is Jew-ish
Limits on ownership and consumption
“It‟s all an illusion…
There‟s too much confusion”

14. Avoid wanton destruction & waste of natural resources.
Take care of the earth

15. But Judaism is not completely anti materialism
and consumption

16. Rambam – everything in moderation
Let a person not…go to the opposite extreme, not to eat
meat, drink wine, marry, live in a nice house or dress in
fine clothes…
`Is not what the Torah has forbidden enough that you
have to forbid for yourself other things?!'.
(Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Laws of Opinions 3:1)

17. In Jewish practice as well as values…the Gemach

18. Resources