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SpaceShare Carpooling & Green Logistics August Newsletter
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Contents
- Happenings
- Activist Tools
- Get More Involved with SpaceShare
Happenings
Our upcoming events are at spaceshare.com/upcoming
If you live near San Francisco, we could really use your help at
the Solar Living Institute's
SolFest in Hopland
this weekend, August 20-21.
Columbia Gorge
Organic Juice is once
again our Green Travel Sponsor, they are a lot of fun to work with (volunteers get unlimited samples). We'll be handing out juice samples along
with running the SpaceShare exhibit. If you like what SpaceShare is doing,
a lot of people are out of town and we're short on volunteers for this weekend,
so we could really use your help! Whether you can come by for an hour
or help all weekend, we'd love a hand -- we'll provide tickets and
help with transportation for serious volunteers. Email us if you can help!
Future events needing volunteers are Power to the Peaceful, and possibly
EarthDance. We'll try to get you tickets to other events if you
help out when we exhibit!
Activist Tools
When you feel ready to face a challenge in the larger world, do you have a community that stands with you? For many thousands of people who want to make
a difference, the answer is unfortunately no. If you care about world hunger,
you might send $20 to an organization with thousands of members and hope they
do good work with it, but you might not know that your neighbor down the
street is interested.
SpaceShare aims to change that,
helping people find
neighbors with similar
interests at the large events we work with.
EarthDance will be working with
us on the prototype. If you go to EarthDance, you'll be able to find neighbors
who have similar interests, making contact before your travel.
You meet your neighbors who care about the same causes as you,
spend the weekend with them,
perhaps camp with them, visit the nonprofit booths together. From
bookclubs to action groups, we hope to get many people started on the
path they have been looking for.
If you go to EarthDance, there will be a number of ways to participate,
helping people get started on a path of activism with their neighbors.
One choice is to volunteer with us. Another option,
if you are already part of an
organization then you can use the system to recruit. For example, if you're
already part of a biodiesel group, you can encourage your members to go to
EarthDance, sign on to the system, then all find your neighbors
who are interested in biodiesel and help them get started.
Instead of a sixty-second interaction at a table,
you can create a camp area for your issue, and get to know each other and
begin to form a real community.
Get More Involved with SpaceShare.
What would it take for you to get more involved with SpaceShare?
Do you feel invited? Do you understand what we are trying to do, and want
to help, but don't know how? Would you be interested in blogging for us, or
reading more articles? Would you participate in an online forum?
Come to a meeting?
We've got a great mission, and we need more hands to grow faster.
Dream & Create,
Stephen
Stephen Cataldo
SpaceShare.com
6420 Colby St.
Oakland, CA 94618
(510) 520-6175
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