SpaceShare Carpooling & Green Logistics June Newsletter
Festival Season & The Greening Guide
Thank you Whole Earth Team!
A big thank you to Galit, Neel, Alie, Aaron and Erin for volunteering at the Whole Earth Festival!
Upcoming Festivals, Volunteers Needed, Free Tickets!
Within 3 hours of San Francisco
Harmony Festival, June 6-8 in Santa Rosa. Again sponsored by Columbia Gorge! The core team so far is
Stephen [team lead], Arthur, Julie and Cruz. Transporation is still
up in the air -- can you transport our booth and supplies?
If you're interested in volunteering and need a ticket, there
may still be space or join the waiting list by
replying to this email.
Volunteers: Ticket Give-Away! We've got two tickets to
the California WorldFest July 17-20! These are intended to reward
someone for playing a major volunteer role at SpaceShare. We don't plan to
have a booth, so volunteer duties at this festival will be next to nothing.
Reply to this email if you'd like to be nominated for this prize, or tackle
one of our volunteer
roles for it.
Future: Oregon and Northern California
Next up: Possibly the Oregon Country Fair, then SolFest in Hopland.
We've got the tech-team in place; more volunteers (especially team-leads)
would mean more festivals could carpool!
Reply to this email if you'd like to volunteer, or lead the volunteer team!
Internships Update: Greening Guide Underway
The Greening Guide is underway right now! Check out
Laura, Lani & Santoash's
new Green Guide for event
planners and travelers. Expect regular changes (and occassional
errors or outages) as we work ... your help would be welcome!
Volunteers Needed: Do you, or you and some friends, want to create
the green skit, video or flash that will introduce thousands of festival
folks to the greening guide? We need a widget that we can offer to
festivals to help them encourage greening. Artists and designers needed;
tech help welcome, but if you bring the art we can find the tech to match.
If you'd like a summer internship with SpaceShare, we'll find good work for you to stretch your skills, from finishing
the greening guide to many other
volunteers and internship possibilities.
Quote of the Month
"The most common way people give up their power
is thinking they don't have any."
-Alice Walker
California Election June 3
California Residents: Important Environmental Propositions on June 3 Ballot!
Don't forget to vote, especially to oppose 98, a bill that would promote
sprawl and cause confusing legal entanglements for many environmental efforts,
along with many other effects less related to SpaceShare's mission. There
are many voting guides to help get you through the chaos of California's
initiatives, including
California League of Conservation Voters voting guide.
Green Tip: Eco Fish
The Environmental Defense Fund
has a Smart Choices When
Eating Seafood guide; or check out Seafood Watch. Ordering greener fish
can be particularly important for event
planners who feel the need to provide a non-vegetarian alternative --
a little care in choosing the fish can have a big impact.
For more on fish safety
and broader ocean issues,
you might want to explore Mother Jone's focus on the oceans. As always,
SpaceShare encourages our members to SPEAK UP -- ask restaurants which
fish they offer are safe for both you and the environment every time you
order, and tell them about these guides if they don't know!
Breathe & Create,
Stephen
SpaceShare.com
newsletter@spaceshare.com
6420 Colby St.
Oakland, CA 94618
(510) 520-6175 (Stephen)
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