Personal Car Sharing: Save the Environment without Moving a Muscle with AB 1871
This was originally posted by Carrie Denning on Environmental Defense Fund’s transportation blog, Way2Go. Personal car sharing, a better way to get to the mountains without buying a new car. Across the...
View ArticleTransform Your House Into A Collaborative Home (Infographic)
Looking for new ways to share, barter or otherwise profit from the stuff inside and outside your home? Have we got an infographic for you. Did you know that the average person only uses their car 2...
View ArticleSharing Economy 101: Four Degrees of Sharing
This article is reprinted with permission from our friends at Shareable Magazine. Sharing is a big deal these days. The sharing economy is a growth industry, a new field of study and of practice; it...
View ArticleTop 4 Peer-To-Peer Carsharing Services
Image Courtesy Of Forest Runner Car sharing is a great way to eliminate your need for a personal vehicle while ensuring that you have wheels to travel distances that are too far to bike or walk. (It’s...
View ArticleSharing News: RelayRides Attracts Big-Name Investors
RelayRides, one of the first online services to make peer-to-peer carsharing safe and legal, recently announced that several additional big name investors would now be lending their financial clout to...
View ArticleI-GO Car Sharing: Mobility as Social Enterprise
When I first started talking to people at St. Louis-based Enterprise Holdings (the owners of Enterprise Rent-a-Car and a few others), they were just getting into the car sharing concept with a limited...
View ArticlePeer-to-Peer Car Sharing Program RelayRides Attracts Big Investors
I’ve become a real fan of the peer-to-peer car sharing concept, and may even have to try it if a service ever becomes available here (because my car’s often just parked… why not make a little off of...
View ArticleWheelz Launches P2P Car Sharing For College Students
What do most college students love? Drinking games, cancelled classes, and things that are cheap. And soon, you might be able to add sharing things to that list as well. Launched last last month,...
View ArticleFuture Of Car Sharing Is Brighter Than You Think
Here at Insteading, we’ve talked a lot about utilizing car sharing services, especially the peer-to-peer kind, as an alternative to motorized vehicle ownership. Now there are even more reasons to get...
View ArticleI-GO Car Sharing Launches Largest Solar-Powered EV Project
I know sustainablog founder and editor Jeff McIntire-Strasburg is an I-GO fan — I actually learned about this Chicago car sharing non-profit from Jeff when he wrote about it earlier this year on...
View Article5 Resolutions For A Greener, More Self-Sufficient New Year
The year is quickly drawing to a close. These days after Christmas are always a curious type of limbo. While some reflect on the blessings and accomplishments of the 2011, many will spend their time...
View ArticleZipcar Expands Car Sharing Network To College Campuses
When I was a freshman undergrad (we won’t talk about what year that was), I was one of the few kids that didn’t have a car on campus. Parking near our dorms and lecture halls was a nightmare…I once...
View ArticleOne-Third Of All U.S. Adults Struggle To Afford Their Car
More than 36 percent of adult respondents said that if gas prices continue to rise, they’ll have to give something up in order to afford their car. Of those who regularly drive a vehicle, nearly...
View ArticleFive Business Opportunities Created by Peak Car
Just finished reading a fascinating post at The Atlantic Cities blog on a topic we’ve covered here before: the decline in car ownership (at least in the developed world), as well as the downward trend...
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