FoodCloud.ie is a community-based social enterprise start-up in Dublin, Ireland, that brings food businesses and charities together, matching those with too much food with those who have too little. Since 2013, FoodCloud has been able to shift an equivalent of 325,000 meals (148 tonnes) of destined food waste to community charities. Co-founder Iseult Ward (left… Read more
The collaborative consumption space has grown rapidly over the past years—and further growth is expected. Few projections, however, have been made on the future growth potential, despite its relevance to entrepreneurship, policy, law, media, and business. To fill this gap, ShareNL developed a survey based on previous research, which measures consumers’ willingness to take part in… Read more
“In an email to TechCrunch, Housebites CEO and co-founder Simon Prockter confirmed that its take-out business is indeed no more: “Is Housebites dead-pooled? Yes,” he says. “Is Housebites gone? No. We just closed the takeaway part. Admittedly the larger part of our business and the product that we were best known for.” Instead the company… Read more
The startup is the first to “enable the peer to peer in-home dining experience,” according to founder Kai Stubbe, who first came to the U.S. nearly four years ago. ” I didn’t know people and I was wishing for a platform to sit at a local table and get some local insight and news,” he… Read more
The Health Department didn’t show up when I made dinner for my neighbors last night. Fortunately, our health and safety laws don’t usually dictate how we prepare food in our personal and private realms. But humans have a natural tendency, an urge to feed each other, and the shareable food movement is taking that to… Read more
