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Book review: What's Mine Is Yours--The Rise of Collaborative Consumption


Review by Ruth Suehle

We live in a consumer culture in the most literal sense of that word. We aren’t just making purchases. We are consuming. And more than just consuming, we are obliterating our world’s resources at an alarming rate. We’ve become accustomed—and hungry for—changing styles with the change of seasons. But what we must do now is change not clothing, nor electronics, nor cars. We must change our culture. The hardest change of all. And that’s what Rachel Bostman and Roo Rogers’ What’s Mine Is Yours is about.

Book review: What's Mine Is Yours--The Rise of Collaborative Consumption