Tag: Car Sharing - Page 4
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Time to Vote: 2007 Co-op America People's Choice Award
The 2007 Co-Op America People's Choice Awards are in full swing (we mentioned them last year, and they need your vote for the greenest business in the land by tomorrow, Monday, October 15. They've narrowed the list to a top 10, and you can vote online
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Carplus: Promoting Responsible Car Use
There is no doubt that cars offer a great deal of benefits, both to individuals and society, in terms of increased mobility and personal freedom. Having said that, anyone reading TreeHugger will also be keenly aware of the negatives, and we're not
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"Cars NOT Carbon" Marketing Challenge Winners Announced
TreeHugger generally doesn't like to promote individual passenger car use, since there are so many other forms of transportation that are so much more efficient. However, we do try to embrace relativism and remain realistic about our current habits as
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GoLoco: Share a Ride, Save a Buck, Save the Planet
TreeHugger is a big fan of ridesharing, carpooling and otherwise cutting back on the number of drivers on the road, and we dug a little deeper into how to do that here. The latest entry into the pool is GoLoco, an online service that helps arrange for
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TreeHugger Picks: Dip Your Toe in the Car Pool
Though TreeHugger prefers bicycles and legs for transportation over automobiles, sometimes cars are the only way to go. When the time for four-wheeled, petroleum-powered transportation comes, we definitely recommend that you find a friend who's going
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Zipcar Launches Fancy New Web Reservation System
Regular TreeHugger readers already know that we're enamored with car-sharing services; they reduce the number of cars on the road and make driving a much more efficient experience as a whole. One of the services that's made a splash here in the States
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Ridester: Life is A Journey -- Share It
Like eRideShare and NuRide, Ridester is a community of carpoolers and road trippers that can help get you from city to city while reducing the volume of traffic on the road. The service (free to join) features a way to both offer and find rides;
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The TH Interview: Kevin McLaughlin, AutoShare President
A mid 1990's news story from Europe spawned the first car sharing network in Canada in October of 1998. Since then, co-founder Kevin McLaughlin has worked tirelessly on making AutoShare an affordable and viable option to car-ownership in cities across
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TreeHugger Picks: Why Buy When You Can Rent?
TreeHugger is a huge fan of the Product Service System (PSS). Though the name is easy to trip over, the concept is brilliant: that there are ways to rent products or services on-demand, and then just pass them on where you're done. Here are our picks
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TreeHugger Picks: Car Sharing Services
The high price of gas has been a hot topic of late, and we suspect it will continue to heat up with summer temperatures and busy summer travel. We've mentioned some easy ways to bump up your mileage, chatted about some ways to reduce our collective
