1 All the direct quotes in this book, unless otherwise noted, were provided via email interviews. Getaround is a nationwide, peer-to-peer car sharing marketplace.
2 Thomas H. Greco Jr., New Money For Healthy Communities. (1994), available at www.ratical.org/.
3 James Robertson, The History of Money: From it’s Origins to Our time, (2007), available at www.jamesrobertson.com/book/historyofmoney.pdf/.
4 Andrew Lowd, Alternative Currencies in Theory and Practice, “Chapter Three: The History of Local Currency”. (2001), available at www.andrewlowd.com/thesis/Chapter3.htm/.
5 For information about Banco Las Palmas, I relied on worldis changing.com and citizenbase.org.
6 Leisure Report Journal (April, 2007).
7 See Brian Knudsen, Richard Florida, Gary Gates, and Kevin Stolarickee, “Urban Density, Creativity, and Innovation,” (May, 2007) available at: www.vwl.tuwien.ac.at/hanappi/AgeSo/rp/Knudsen_2007.pdf/, accessed March 7, 2013.
8 Paul M. Davis, Shareable “Survey Finds Trust is #1 Barrier to Sharing,” (July 10, 2012), www.Shareable.net/.
9 See Paul Hawken, Amory B. Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins, Natural Capitalism, Earthscan (2010).
10 These statistics come from the “State of the World Report,” Worldwatch Institute, (2011) www.worldwatch.org/, accessed March 7, 2013.
11 See Alex Steffen, World Changing, “Use Community: Smaller Footprints, Cooler Stuff and More Cash”, (Feb. 15, 2007) www.worldchanging.com/archives//006082.html/.
12 Elliot Martin and Susan Shaheen, Access “The Impact of Car-sharing on Household Vehicle Ownership,” (Spring, 2011), www.uctc.net/.
13 Sara Horowitz, The Atlantic. “Occupy Big Business: The Sharing Economy’s Quiet Revolution,” (Dec. 2012).