SpaceShare Carpooling & Green Logistics February Newsletter
Expanding Our Mission: Green Conference Websites
SpaceShare has long been "replacing resources with community" using web-based
tools. Besides ride- and room-sharing, we've coordinated mentors and built
discussion forums for conferences. Now, under the broader name
VerdantEvent, we're integrating these tools and more while building complete
websites for conferences.
You can see our first site, for the Sustainable Meetings Conference. Let us know what you think!
We think it's a highly functional site, tested at the Sustainable Meetings
conference last year and refined since then, ready to bring a whole new set of
greening and networking tools to conferences. The current design work
is for a site we donated to a green event;
we'll hire a designer to help turn function
into beauty as we work with our next conference, crafting the look to
each client's needs.
Do you know a conference planner who needs a website?
We'd love to talk with them, hear how we can build a better website for
their needs, hear how they think the new greening tools would work for
their audience.
* Although greening is our central mission, we're happy
to work with not-particularly green events and add what we can -- please
connect us with any conference planners you know, our work brings along
many benefits beyond the green tools.
Oil Subsidies
If you've wondered how much the US government subsidizes oil and alternative
fuels, it's easy to get a headache listening to different numbers. What Obama should know about ending oil subsidies is a solid article
with graphics exploring the relative sizes of government subsidies.
Summary: the government is doing a few things right, a lot more wrong. In these days of
budget-cutting, it's a great time to focus on the oil subsidies that
damage the planet at the expense of our federal budget.
Green Events Are Better
Help us advocate for Greener events among meeting planners:
Better.
A great internship for a budding social media guru, mba with a focus
on marketing, video student, or someone with an interest
in event planning.
Intern & be SpaceShare's Social Media Guru!
Do You Want a Corporate Job?
I don't. As SpaceShare aims to transform into VerdantEvent, we need another
green-minded person or two to take on an entrepreneurial spirit.
Is it you, one of your friends?
If we do it right we'll be greening and spreading the green message
(walk first, then talk) to hundreds or thousands of conferences every year,
making quite good money, getting the chance to create and innovate,
and being leaders and speakers in the event planning
world.
Sent from Amtrak's wireless waiting for the Starlight,
Stephen
SpaceShare.com
newsletter@spaceshare.com
http://twitter.com/#!/stephen_verdant
Verdant Event Conference Websites: http://www.verdantevent.com
Replacing Cars with Community: http://www.spaceshare.com
Green Events Guide: http://www.greeneventsguide.org
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Carpool to the National Conference for Media Reform, or offer your guestroom in Boston! This is a great event, year after year these folks have a great record
of sharing.