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New
Directions
Thanks to the help of new interns at SpaceShare,
we're headed in some new directions. Michael Smith, a new outreach
intern, has generated lists of allies including transportation
organizations, peace activists, and music festival websites. Mary
Kohut,
our new media intern, is creating PR for these organizations to get the
SpaceShare name out to the world!
New Interns
Michael Smith: Full
time intern until the end of July. Although currently based in
Berkeley, I am a student at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. I
study Spanish, but am minoring in Environmental Studies and that is
what attracts me to SpaceShare.
I am mostly working as a contact person to find and work with
SpaceShare's allies. I hope to do some publicity for SpaceShare at the
same time. Through these allies, I will have a better idea of how
environmental organizations function, and, perhaps, even make permanent
contacts with people at these organizations. As I look towards my
future, contacts I have made during my tenure at SpaceShare will
perhaps lead to a future career direction. Overall, I hope to find
larger implications in sustainability issues and use what I have
learned at SpaceShare to improve my education and knowledge of
sustainability.
Currently, I am working on allies and outreach -- trying to get the
SpaceShare name out to as many like-minded organizations as possible.
Have any ideas? E-mail me. Also feel free to check out what I'm working
on over on the new community
site.
Mary Kohut:
My job here is to manage media; writing, editing, submitting, and
researching new outlets for us to get our name out there! I want to
learn about the PR end of nonprofit organizations, which is where I'd
like to head career-wise. I also want to get my name in with local
media outlets in order to set myself up for California media work upon
graduation in a year with a degree in Journalism with a concentration
in Global Studies.
For the planet...Green ethics have been an integral part of my
upbringing and I want to learn methods of greening at the business
level. Individuals can only do so much, we need social responsibility
coming down from the top.
For myself...I'm excited to work on a growing team, while
familiarizing myself with the Bay Area. I'm an East Coast kid testing
how much I like the scene out here, and how much I like doing more
PR-style work (usually it's straight, objective journalism).
SpaceShare
adds to the Harmony
We've done it again! SpaceShare helped neighbors
tune into each other for this year's Health and Harmony Festival,
June 9, 10, and 11 at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds in Santa Rosa.
We've built a rideshare system for Harmony before, but our work doesn't
stop there.
Peter, Mary, Judah, Rachel and Stephen attended the festival, spoke
with families, single travelers,
music heads, and more, informing folks about our services and the
benefits of green travel (and camped out and partied). The five of us
who went also enjoyed sampling
some fine all-organic juice by our supportive sponsor, Columbia Gorge Organic
Fruit Company.
As folks enjoyed their juice and were introduced to SpaceShare, they
also were encouraged to use our paper rideboard, set-up for the rest
of the festival. And we had fun too!
Festival
Season Continues, Join Us!
See the
list at http://www.spaceshare.com/upcoming.
We're especially looking for help as we expand geographically: we
need more hands at Lightning
in a Bottle June 14-16 near Santa
Barbara, and possibly the Oregon Country Fair or FaerieWorlds in Oregon, and a sofa to crash on in Denver in late August.
Community
Do you want to be a part of SpaceShare? These newsletters aren't
enough for you to understand the heart of our community? Want to
volunteer, or you were a volunteer and want to get more deeply
involved? SpaceShare is passing another milestone as it continues
to transform from a one-person project into a community. David,
our technology intern, has been diligently transforming spaceshare.com/community
into our organizational hub. Check out the site, introduce
yourself, and look at the forums where we plan our next steps.
Roles vary, from joining as a partner to occassionally proofreading a
website. We're a "Do It Yourself" organization, looking for
participants rather than donors. Come join us!
If you think SpaceShare is a worthwhile project and want to see it
happen, our community
site is the place to be.
Dream & Create,
Stephen Cataldo, Michael Smith, Mary Kohut, and the rest of the
SpaceShare team...
SpaceShare.com
6420 Colby St.
Oakland, CA 94618
(510) 520-6175
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