Check out Sourcemap's cousins at Senseable dealing with the other end of the chain at Trash Track.
GOOD calculates "a lawnmower is a valuable asset—you know, for the five to 10 minutes of actual clipping it does during a two-week span. During the remaining 20,150 minutes of that time frame, however, the thing simply takes up space in the garage".
An opportunity that Neighbourgoods has taken advantage of, it's a system of sharing, your lawnmower, that ladder, maybe an air mattress. Am wondering when it will extend into the cup of sugar territory.
Yes, I fall for things open-sourced perhaps a little easily. But this is Brangelina approved...(see Treehugger). Ok, never mind that. One Dress is collectively designed and created by over 1000 women everywhere. Via Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and so on... these women talked lifestyles, dreams, hemlines, necklines, colours and it all came together to make One Dress. All proceeds will benefit Womenkind Worldwide and KIVA.ORG (a brilliant person-to-person micro lending portal, check it). More sustainable dressing with The Uniform Project.
The Open Architecture Network. 'Improving living standards the collaborative way' OAN brings together architects, designers, innovators and the community to view, review and collaborate on plans and manage design projects from start to finish.