About SpaceShare
SpaceShare's mission is to replace cars with community. We define
this broadly, helping people strengthen their communities in a variety
of ways, most of which help them share and save resources.
We are a Social Enterprise: we have all the mission and spirit
of a nonprofit, all the efficiency and focus on our clients' needs
of a business enterprise.
SpaceShare was founded in 2003 by
Stephen Cataldo,
and is joined by a growing team of volunteers and interns.
You can think of SpaceShare as two organizations: a business that
develops tools for community building and works with clients, and
an activist organization that inspires people to start sharing.
As a business, we work with clients who may or may not care that their
events are environmentally friendly. It's our mission to make our tools
sufficiently worthwhile that any event planner will want them.
As an activist organization trying to change the world, our doors are
open to participation. We work at inspiring people at the large events in
our neighborhood, events like SolFest and EarthDance, where we show
up and help educate and inspire people about green travel, about
relying more on their community and less on burning resources. The activist
part of SpaceShare is partly a Do-ocracy as they say at Burning Man, where
great things happen if you make them happen, and our direction is largely
defined by who shows up willing to work on which project.
We don't look for cash contributions, we want you
to participate!
If you'd like to meet the team...
Future Plans
In the next three years, we hope to:
- Set up carpool systems for thousands of events each year, rather
than one each week as we do now.
- Help people bring their elderly neighbors to church, providing carpooling
tools to churches, synagogues, mosques and other houses of worship.
- Help college students avoid buying their first car by designing
carpool systems able to handle the complex needs of campus life.
- Partner with others to create a Green Weddings website and movement.
- Make everyone aware that businesses like housecleaning and
real estate can be green, and connect environmentally conscious people
with
neighborhood
green businesses.
Contact Us
6420 Colby St
Oakland, CA 94618
phone: 1 (510) 520-6175
fax: 1 (510) 849-4832
info@SpaceShare.com
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