Interested in volunteering? Please read:

1. Volunteer Guidelines
2. 2007 planning document, very similar to this year.
3. skim the summary

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
   

When I first heard of carbon offsets, I loved the idea: a very committed, thoughtful person used them to reduce her guilt about the impacts she couldn't change. Since then they've been drifting into the old paradigms that got us into this mess, "Carbon Indulgences" letting us sin. Even at their best, they work like this: a windmill farm creates some electricity. They sell the electricity to someone who says, yeah! I'm using wind power!

Help create image, online-skit or video that festivals can put on their websites, promoting greener travel and greener events. We've got some not-there-yet drafts.

Web Design Images for Festival Pages:
Cars Scoooot Away
Three Little Hippies

1. I've done what I can do and am heading to the limits of my artistic skills. Anyone want to take the lead on this project!!!

These are the very earliest notes on a presentation for the Whole Earth Festival, hopefully to be repeated at other festivals, helping "relocalize" the large events by getting people to connect with neighbors interested in the same types of solutionism.

Looking for someone to work with Stephen to re-create this presentation and help give it!

Section 1: Introduce SpaceShare, how we green festivals, and this low-tech version of it.

Section 2: Lots of volunteers needed, get everyone to move into a map of Davis, Bay Area, and beyond.

Section 3A: Neighhborhood improvements.

Collecting information about Carbon Calculators:

Likely:

• Drive Neutral, yearly car trips calculator: https://www.driveneutral.org/calculator/friends?=spaceshare
• Nice broad tool at Carbon Neutral: http://www.carbonneutral.com///calculators/index_shop_calculator.asp?referredby=spaceshare
• Inconvenient Truth, vague: http://www.climatecrisis.net/takeaction/carboncalculator/

* We're begining to work with Drive Neutral https://www.driveneutral.org/friends?=spaceshare who are working on a conference carbon calculator that will do the whole thing. From them, I can get the rest of the details soon, but the online calculator isn't launched yet. I can probably put this on our website in another month or so, maybe sooner. I can get you their estimates for how to calculate your conference's impact by hand (somewhat complex to really determine what should be counted), as well as for travelers. I'm talking with them - if you tell me more specifically what you're looking for, I can try to make it happen.

Create a list of the possible on-line shopping+donation services, and compare them. For each one:

* General description: Are they green or general consumer? What is their product line like? (We may have more than one partner, one with all kinds of products, one with green products only, and perhaps a couple of specialty stores, like Barnes and Nobles so we can sell books.)
* Can donations be made to a non-501-c3 (we're not registered as a 501c3)
* Google them on a blog search engine, and see if anyone has written about them. Take quick notes, including the URL of the blog so I can see it.

Quick Summary::
work with Agilent to redesign the home page

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Help us create a helpful and thriving venture around the
green / environmental weddings website at http://www.green-weddings.org

SpaceShare search page

David and Stephen are re-working the search page. We'd like both people with an eye for UI and design, but especially new people as testers, to help advise.

Here are the stage-I plans: take a careful look at www.spaceshare.com/solfesthopland ( a site in use - close your account between sessions, and write "testing" as the description.) and www.spaceshare.com/ocf and www.spaceshare.com/solar2006 , create ads on each, look at the search page, and let's figure out how to improve it! My vision is to make each post more like a block than a row, without blank spaces. I'd like it if it works fine as is, but perhaps javascript would let people change the search prioirities --> and it's especially important that people be able to change the rank of a post.