SpaceShare Carpooling & Green Logistics May Newsletter
This month...
Festival Season
Festival Season begins this weekend, where Columbia Gorge Organic Juice is sponsoring carpools to the
New Living Expo.
We're understaffed -- This Weekend -- Help needed!
If you're in the Bay Area and can volunteer for even a couple hours,
stop just reading the newsletter and come join us!
Upcoming events we'll exhibit
at include
Whole Earth in Davis, Joshua Tree Music Festival in southern California,
Folklife in Seattle, then Harmony in Santa Rosa.
We have a team forming to focus on music festivals -- they may be
writing an article for the final draft of this newsletter -- join in!
Outreach: Your Role
Talk to events: Many summer festivals are becoming greener --
be sure to thank them!!!
Someone in each of these organizations has advocated for carpooling,
composting, whatever improvements they've made --
and your positive commments are
what will empower them, within their own organization and their own
budget requirements, to keep pushing greener.
Download our greening guide, and share ideas with each event you attend this festival season.
Speak up online: It's been an hour and half since
someone called and told us how great SpaceShare was -- don't tell us,
tell people who've never heard of SpaceShare!
Would love it if someone could nominate SpaceShare
for enviro awards that could help generate more publicity for SpaceShare,
and spread us further outside the Bay Area.
If you've cut back your carbon footprint or helped someone cut theirs through
SpaceShare, we'd love a few nominations on
Focus the Nation's award
page.
Greener Computers
After all that focus on music, one brief note on technology:
GreenPeace is ranking
computer manufacturers, with some surprising
improvements from their previously bottom-ranked, and the one reason
I'm considering replacing my very old Apple with something else.
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/chinese-company-tops-greenpeac
Another way to reduce the production of new computers:
switching from Windows to Linux can often give an older computer a longer useful life: you can still read email,
surf the web, and use a word processor on old machines if they don't use all their processing power to run the operating system. In past years, we've run
into folks who can help you explore free and opensource software as
co-exhibitors at the Whole Earth Festival
May 11-13.
Breathe & Create,
Stephen
SpaceShare.com
6420 Colby St.
Oakland, CA 94618
(510) 520-6175
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