SpaceShare
is a wonderful team of programmers, dedicated to
giving festivals
a great way to go green, not only by providing a user friendly
ride-share
system, but by networking and empowering activists of all levels.
-- Abigail Lewis
International Coordinator
EARTHDANCE
SpaceShare develops environmental networking tools for festivals,
building community while protecting the planet. We would like to
help
your festivals by orchestrating ridesharing and perhaps other greening
and neighbor-matching connections. SpaceShare's
tools help people attend festivals they otherwise
couldn't attend, make friends as they travel, and
generally make the journey
to the festival become
part of
the festival.
How We Help You: Neighbors Sharing Rides to Your Festival
Our core service is helping neighbors connect
to share the ride to your
event, minimizing fuel use and parking hassles, making your event more
affordable, helping people make deeper connections.
We also provide a growing list of other green travel and community
building services you might choose from:
Depending on your needs, we can provide other green
travel matching beyond ridesharing.
- Housing: helping people share hotel rooms or find guest homes.
- Flights: fly together, share taxis on arrival.
Customized networking to help the nonprofits at your festival.
If your event invites nonprofits and hopes to inspire your attendees to
become more active in their communities, we can help with this as
well. We'll connect people with their neighbors according to the
issues that matter most to them: they can travel together, camp
together, visit the nonprofit tables together, then take what they
learn at your event back to their neighborhoods.
We'll customize a matching system around the themes of your
event. The
choices below are simply examples. Imagine if you could talk to
everyone at your festival and find out who they would most like to
meet. Tell us what patterns would emerge, and we can build a
matching
system to your needs.
- Environmental Festival Example: we can help your
attendees find neighbors with similar interests to form small
grassroots groups (for converting their cars to biodiesel, or writing
letters to Congress, cleaning up a neighborhood stream).
- Community Arts Festival Example: connect neighbors to
take classes together or attend local music with their neighbors.
Let
your festival be the place where people make connections that last for
years and expose them to new art forms.
Other Greening Services & Online Discussion Forums:
- We can host an online discussion forum for your festival.
A
great way to turn attendees into participants is to host an online
community before and after your event.
- We would be happy to connect you with resources to help you
green your event.
We
shared gas, eliminated 200 miles of one car driving and saved money by
only needing one parking pass. Plus I may have made a new friend in
another town, who I can visit.
-- Allan W
How SpaceShare's Green Travel System Works:
We customize a database and web site to your festival's specific
needs. We can take public transportation hubs and shuttles into
account, and help people find their neighbors and carpool from across
town or across the country. More than that, we'll help you
construct
an outreach program that brings carpooling from the fringes to center
stage. If you'd like to connect people for more than travel
partners,
tell us what you need.
We seamlessly integrate the logistics site into your web registration
or directions page. Attendees can quickly describe their needs,
and
then search for and email potential matches. We provide users
support
and strongly protect their privacy.
Your festival, and the planet, will benefit:
Make your event more environmentally friendly, so you look good to
attendees and in the press. Cut costs for your audience, which
helps
more people attend. Offer a great way to network and make new
friends,
giving attendees yet one more reason to come back next year.
Thanks for hosting an earth-friendly event! We are flexible, so
if you
have other needs or limitations that don't match what is described
above, just let us know.
Green Sponsorship:
People appreciate these tools: protecting the environment, saving money
and making friends all at once. Besides the good publicity for you,
this makes SpaceShare an ideal tool to bring in a new
Green Sponsor
for the event. Many festivals can be environmentally responsible,
help
more people attend, and have someone else happily pay for it.
Next Steps:
We can provide a great variety of services. Of the services
listed
above, please let me know which might interest you. Then I can quickly
guide you through the steps you'll need to take. We make this
process
very
easy for event organizers: we do the bulk of the work
and quickly guide you through the few steps you'll need to take. We're
happy to tell you the details about how we work, or equally happy to
take charge and help green your festival with minimal involvement by
your staff.
SpaceShare develops environmental networking tools for festivals,
building community while protecting the planet. We would like to
help
your festival by orchestrating ridesharing and perhaps other greening
and neighbor-matching connections. SpaceShare's
tools help people attend festivals they otherwise
couldn't attend, make friends as they travel, and
generally make the journey
to the festival become
part of
the festival.
Breathe & Create,
Stephen
--
Stephen Cataldo
SpaceShare.com
6420 Colby St.
Oakland, CA 94618
(510) 520-6175
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