Tag: Car Sharing - Page 2
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BMW's New Car Share Lends You a Car Where You Find One, Lets You Leave It Where You Want
At TreeHugger, we've been big fans of car-sharing services for a long time. ZipCar has long dominated the field, pushing the envelope recently by adding hybrid vehicles and expanding into new
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Roo Rogers on the Rise of Collaborative Consumption (Podcast)
Photo credit: Andrew Zuckerman "The great success of hyper-consumption in the 20th century was persuading consumers that sharing is somehow akin to being either a hippie or a communist," says Roo Rogers. "The 21st century is about realizing that sharing
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What's Mine is Yours - The Rise of Collaborative Consumption (Book review)
"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
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New Car-Share Service Lets Your Rent Your Wheels For Extra Cash
One of our favorite alternatives to hotels is Airbnb, a service that lets you rent out your extra bed to weary travelers to make a little extra cash and helps the traveler save money. It's a peer-based
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iPhone App Lets New Yorkers Share Car Service Rides
Anyone who has ever tried hailing a cab in New York City downtown on a weekend night knows it can be a combat sport. And then try getting that cabbie to take you to Brooklyn. If you live in Brooklyn along the G line just getting
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Why Own Any Mode of Transportation? Peugeot's Mu Covers Them All
Peugeot started building bicycles in 1882 and cars in 1890, so they have a bit of a history in different modes of transportation. TreeHugger has been excited about car-sharing setups like zipcar and bike-sharing systems like Velib; product service
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Zipcar to Go Public With $75 Million IPO
Photo: Flickr, CC Wanna Own a Piece of Zipcar? Zipcar, the biggest car-sharing player in the U.S., has filed the paperwork yesterday for a $75 million initial public offering (IPO). It was only two years ago that Zipcar bought its smaller rival Flexcar,
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Australia's First Public Electric Car Charge Station is Go
It was 2005 when we last reported on Australia's pioneering car share business GoGet. The guys have been going places since then, figuring that their service now keeps the equivalent of more than 230 cars off the
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How Greenfleeting Uses the Power of Scale (Video)
All glory may be fleeting, but most of us wouldn't count fleeting as very glorious. But greenfleeting, the art of maximizing the efficiency of a fleet of vehicles, can pick up some big ecological gains if done right. Greenfleeting can mean choosing
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6 Cities That Could Easily Be Car "Lite" or Car Free
Stylized 3D map of Guangzhou credit Colin Zhu at flickr. Freiburg, Germany's Vauban development is the most well-known example of a city area that has successfully turned away from car-centric culture. It's a big step that can be fraught with
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Here's an Idea: Share Things with Your Neighbors
Sure, we have Zipcar, bike sharing, and even tool shares, but Good wants to know why this sort of thing isn't more popular.They say:
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The Future of Green in 8 Fast Lectures
If you want to learn where the future is for green business and entrepreneurs, here's the place. It's a speed lecture by 8 green leaders on the direction of their industry. Speed means that each one gets 8 minutes for
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10 of the Greenest Colleges in the U.S. (slideshow)
Making the green grade nowadays takes more than just recycling a few coke cans and changing light bulbs. Today's universities have come to the realization that incoming students consider sustainability among their top criteria in school selection.
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Live Local: Finally, a Social Networking Website With Purpose
Live Local is the digital equivalent of hanging over the fence and chin wagging with your neighbour, sharing stories about what's worked for you and what hasn't.
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Portland Mayor Joins Commuters' Low-Car Diet
For one month, Mayor Sam Adams joins 30 Portland, Oregon residents taking part in Zipcar's Low-Car Diet. The car sharing service has convinced these
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Robin Chase on the Birth of Zipcar and the Future of Transportation (Part Two)
Zipcar has been a game changer, but Robin Chase is already on to other things. The next frontier in transportation is a smart network that has your car, iPhone, GPS, and other gizmos sharing chatter with streetlights, power utilities, your insurance
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Robin Chase on the Birth of Zipcar and the Future of Transportation (Part One)
To Robin Chase, parked cars and solo drivers just look like a great big mess of wasted capacity. It’s this kind of thinking that inspired her to start Zipcar (now the world’s largest carsharing company), and GoLoco, the Facebook of ridesharing. It’s
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A Plug-In Hybrid for $10 an Hour? Rent Your Own EV in Central London
Streetcar Offers Plug In Hybrid Rentals When Streetcar car sharing club set up in major London stations I got pretty excited. When Plug-In Hybrids started appearing on the streets of London, Michael was enthused. Now we're going to see the best of both
