SpaceShare Carpooling & Green Logistics September Newsletter
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News & Happenings
We're wrapping up our busiest season yet, with two events almost every
week in September. And the most people to carpool to a single event,
690 folks signed up to carpool to
EarthDance.
If you're in the Bay Area, join us for
the Hoesdown, a festival at the
Full Belly organic farm this Saturday, Oct 1. We ran an exhibit last year, they've got great
educational programs mixed with music and locally grown food.
Volunteers are needed, anytime
from around 10am to 6pm. Joining a tabling effort is fun & easy,
a great way to get started with SpaceShare - reply to this letter if you
can help.
Another option for Saturday is the Solar Homes Tour.
Meet your neighbors and see how they're making their homes greener, in
Northern California where
we built a rideboard, or
nationwide.
Manifesting the lyrics of peace
We've spent the summer at festivals where peace and planet are in
songs that fill the air. SpaceShare works, we can manifest those ideas
now. Will it happen next year?
At a dozen festivals or
a thousand? This project was started by very few people, but now that it
works, we need our community to grow.
Chop wood, carry water, haul out the bag of recyclables.
Community building and peace building do take work. When there are too few
hands, the work gets done by a few martyrs who burn out. When enough people
decide that they aren't just singing about community but are willing to lend a
hand, the work becomes a joy. The question is real: will people from this
community stand up, bring your joy and your hands and your voices, and make
ridesharing and other community-building earth-protecting tools part of
reality, right now no matter the political climate? There's
nothing in the way from spreading this across North America, we don't need
corporations or millionaires, we just need our community to make our songs
real, we need "you" to become "us."
We're bringing in a few new interns.
Shana and Jesse are just joining the team this week,
and we're getting in touch with
and finding roles for many new participants from EarthDance and other events.
SpaceShare's exploring
a new model towards environmentalism and community building: just going
out and doing it. We're not foundation funded or a project of a wealthy
donor. That means that everyone who wants to get involved can take
on worthwhile, challenging roles. Here are a few new ideas - do you have
a friend looking for an internship or underemployed and complaining about
the economy?
Get involved: don't ask for donations, let's make it happen!
A beautiful booth & a beautiful job.
At the "Greening of Festivals" workshop at EarthDance, one goal discussed was
replacing all the environmentally nasty vinyl banners with hand painted signs,
supporting local artisans. We want to redesign our booth, without going to
vinyl.
SpaceShare was started by mathy-geeks and we need artists to join us:
help us paint banners for our booth, or redesign our website, or write and
perform skits about carpooling in front of thousands. If you want to design
banners for many booths and turn this into a job or business, let's talk!
Support Green Businesses. Our
"Little Green Expo"
spreads the word
about many environmental projects at the festivals we attend. We need
a researcher to find new partners. A good project for someone
who wants to volunteer, jump in and see results soon: research water filters
and help us find the best partner.
Work for the planet, spread the word. If you could do far more than your
share to save the planet, but it involved what conservative businessmen might
call good old fashioned work, would you do it?
SpaceShare is a people-project
without grants or capital, earning enough to live on as we go. Someone has to
call EarthDance and Reggae and Harmony and a thousand other festivals of all
stripes to make greening happen. Quit your corporate job (or quit your
unemployed muttering!) and join the people crazy enough to live our vision!
Our Community
By next month, we hope to have a community website, so people who would
like to contribute can all communicate with each other. If you know
Drupal and can help us design the site, please help!
If you'd like to be
involved with SpaceShare, you are welcome - if you'd like to be doing more
and we've fallen out of communication, please write again!
Dream & Create,
Stephen
Stephen Cataldo
SpaceShare.com
6420 Colby St.
Oakland, CA 94618
(510) 520-6175
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