Creating our Greening Guide

Help SpaceShare create a guide to planning and traveling to events as green as possible, gathering and sharing information from other experts when possible and create our own information as necessary, then get it to many thousands of people to help them be greener travelers/planners.

1. Recreate spaceshare.com/green, our rough draft of a greening guide
1. Goal: a guide for both travelers and planners of many different
   types of events.  Right now when someone googles "green event,"
   they
   will have to sort through a huge amount of information to find what
   they need.  We want to simplify the process: they come to our
   greening
   page, and are rapidly guided to relevant sub-guides, depending on the
   type of event ( 20 family members outside in a backyard, 20,000
   conference attendees in a convention hall?) and whether they are
   planning the event or simply attending. 
2. Approach: primarily an "annotated bibliography," explaining and
   giving additional attention to existing resources, promoting the best
   and best-fit resources, promoting other organizations for what they do
   best.  Secondarily, we'll be adding resources as we find gaps.
3. The site is likely to be broken down like this: what to do
   (compost!), guides to help you do it (a checklist of all the steps
   you'll need to take to compost depending on your type of event), and
   service providers to do it for you.
2. Associated activities
1. Create a logo for facebook/myspace/personal-homepage that
   points there, for individuals who are fans of green events.
2. Create an animated GIF or even video for festivals websites.
3. Create a facebook/myspace page about green events oriented to
   individual travelers
4. [Stephen] Start a green-activities blog, aimed at syndication
   in the newsletters of companies that work with events and want to be
   greener.  One of the true long-term goals of this project is to
   get
   enough information displayed clearly enough that we can get it into the
   hands of thousands of event planners who haven't yet taken the first
   step towards being green.
3. Skills and stages:
1. Research: creating annotated bibliographies of existing
   resources: guides, services.
2. Writing: Creating guides where we don't find one we really
   like.   Writing to all the existing guides about what we
   would like
   them to include.
3. Web design and user-interface/flow design to present the
   materials:  Possibly using Drupal already set up on our
   spaceshare.com/community site. 
4. Graphic Design: "viral-marketing" of green ideas, make it
   interesting (beautiful, funny?) so it spreads.
5. Outreach: blog or comment about the site, get on virtual
   communities such as facebook, show up at real communities such as
   festivals.