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What’s Mine is Yours – The Rise of Collaborative Consumption (Book review)

Images via www.collaborativeconsumption.com “Barter, Swap, or Pass on this Book.” These are the first words you see on opening What’s Mine is Yours – The Rise of Collaborative Consumption . Printed on the inner jacket of the book, in the style of a library lending card, this invitation to share your literary possession gives an instant flavour of what this book is all about. The lending card graphic might look old school, but the digital nature of contemporary collaboration is made immediately clear by the option to create an online code to track your copy of the book as it embarks on it… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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What’s Mine is Yours – The Rise of Collaborative Consumption (Book review)

New Predictive Software Aims to Save Endangered Zebras

Photo credit: PRNewsFoto/IBM Knowing that a species is endangered is one thing, but knowing how to save it is a whole other problem. For the Grevy’s zebra, which has only 2,500 individuals left in the wild, how and why people hunt them. IBM has created a new predictive analytics software that Marwell Wildlife can use to collect huge amounts of complex information — such as what herdsmen think about the zebras, where the animals are located, why they hunt the… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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New Predictive Software Aims to Save Endangered Zebras