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Purchasing power: villages provide their residents with new services to reduce their costs
Small communities are creating new types of public services. Everyone can borrow the village’s electric vehicle, for a subscription, or take advantage of the communal henhouse and harvest their eggs. – (France 2)
Small communities are creating new types of public services. Everyone can borrow the village’s electric vehicle, for a subscription, or take advantage of the communal henhouse and harvest their eggs.
Two departments, two villages, but one thing in common: sharing. In Preignan, in Gers, a car resembling a La Poste van, except that instead of delivering mail, it is available to 1,200 residents. This morning, André De Ronne uses it to do his shopping. To borrow it, he pays an annual fee of 20 euros and reserves a slot with the town hall, owner of the vehicle. This allows this resident to “save a little“and participates in”well-being of the planet“. Entirely electric, around thirty residents use it regularly.
A chicken coop for all residents
Another example of shared property, in the village of Melles, in Haute-Garonne, where 12 hens belong to the residents, who built their henhouse together. Pierre-Henri Fabre goes there several times a week to collect eggs. Everyone is free to help themselves for a few euros, in order to contribute to the maintenance of the henhouse and the purchase of grain.