We’ve featured lots of sharing type services on our blog, like LandShare, where people can share garden allotments, and Whipcar, a service that lets people share their vehicles. Now, new to the sharing scene is Seglet. Seglet is a web-based service that connects owners of rooftops to renters who want to use the space.
People and companies who want to use a rooftop can search for people who are willing to let out their space. The rooftops can be used a site for solar energy generation, wind energy as well as extra allotment space for food growing. Each rooftop listing includes details such as water availability, solar exposure levels and access to utility. The owners can make some money from the rental and the renters can use the space for personal or commercial activities.
(Spotted on Springwise)
Katherine Hui is currently the Social site editor at Green Thing, a web-based public service in London that inspires people to lead greener lives through creative content.
Before this, she worked as the Development Manager at Social Innovation Camp, an organization that encourages people to use web and mobile-based technology to mobilise social change. She oversaw 300 ideas submission and helped build 20 prototypes – five of which have gone on to get further funding or investment.
Katherine’s came over to the UK form Canada in 2007 for an MSc program at the London School of Economics. Before arriving in London, she managed a small environmental start-up in Vancouver called the Canadian Climate Change Alliance.
Katherine is football mad. She is a loyal supporter of Arsenal FC, plays for Islington Borough Ladies FC and coaches for Gunners in Islington in her spare time. Her second favourite hobby is kite surfing and she can sometimes be found chasing the wind.
