A Plug-In Hybrid for $10 an Hour? Rent Your Own EV in Central London
Streetcar Offers Plug In Hybrid Rentals When Streetcar car sharing club set up in major London stations I got pretty excited. When Plug-In Hybrids started appearing on the streets of London, Michael...
View ArticleRobin Chase on the Birth of Zipcar and the Future of Transportation (Part One)
To Robin Chase, parked cars and solo drivers just look like a great big mess of wasted capacity. It’s this kind of thinking that inspired her to start Zipcar (now the world’s largest carsharing...
View ArticleRobin Chase on the Birth of Zipcar and the Future of Transportation (Part Two)
Zipcar has been a game changer, but Robin Chase is already on to other things. The next frontier in transportation is a smart network that has your car, iPhone, GPS, and other gizmos sharing chatter...
View ArticlePortland Mayor Joins Commuters' Low-Car Diet
For one month, Mayor Sam Adams joins 30 Portland, Oregon residents taking part in Zipcar's Low-Car Diet. The car sharing service has convinced these
View ArticleLive Local: Finally, a Social Networking Website With Purpose
Live Local is the digital equivalent of hanging over the fence and chin wagging with your neighbour, sharing stories about what's worked for you and what hasn't.
View Article10 of the Greenest Colleges in the U.S. (slideshow)
Making the green grade nowadays takes more than just recycling a few coke cans and changing light bulbs. Today's universities have come to the realization that incoming students consider...
View ArticleThe Future of Green in 8 Fast Lectures
If you want to learn where the future is for green business and entrepreneurs, here's the place. It's a speed lecture by 8 green leaders on the direction of their industry. Speed means that each one...
View ArticleHere's an Idea: Share Things with Your Neighbors
Sure, we have Zipcar, bike sharing, and even tool shares, but Good wants to know why this sort of thing isn't more popular.They say:
View Article6 Cities That Could Easily Be Car "Lite" or Car Free
Stylized 3D map of Guangzhou credit Colin Zhu at flickr. Freiburg, Germany's Vauban development is the most well-known example of a city area that has successfully turned away from car-centric...
View ArticleHow Greenfleeting Uses the Power of Scale (Video)
All glory may be fleeting, but most of us wouldn't count fleeting as very glorious. But greenfleeting, the art of maximizing the efficiency of a fleet of vehicles, can pick up some big ecological...
View ArticleAustralia's First Public Electric Car Charge Station is Go
It was 2005 when we last reported on Australia's pioneering car share business GoGet. The guys have been going places since then, figuring that their service now keeps the equivalent of more than 230...
View ArticleZipcar to Go Public With $75 Million IPO
Photo: Flickr, CC Wanna Own a Piece of Zipcar? Zipcar, the biggest car-sharing player in the U.S., has filed the paperwork yesterday for a $75 million initial public offering (IPO). It was only two...
View ArticleWhy Own Any Mode of Transportation? Peugeot's Mu Covers Them All
Peugeot started building bicycles in 1882 and cars in 1890, so they have a bit of a history in different modes of transportation. TreeHugger has been excited about car-sharing setups like zipcar and...
View ArticleiPhone App Lets New Yorkers Share Car Service Rides
Anyone who has ever tried hailing a cab in New York City downtown on a weekend night knows it can be a combat sport. And then try getting that cabbie to take you to Brooklyn. If you live in Brooklyn...
View ArticleNew Car-Share Service Lets Your Rent Your Wheels For Extra Cash
One of our favorite alternatives to hotels is Airbnb, a service that lets you rent out your extra bed to weary travelers to make a little extra cash and helps the traveler save money. It's a peer-based
View ArticleWhat's Mine is Yours - The Rise of Collaborative Consumption (Book review)
"Barter, Swap, or Pass on this Book." These are the first words you see on opening What's Mine is Yours - The Rise of Collaborative Consumption. Printed on the inner jacket of the book, in the style of a
View ArticleRoo Rogers on the Rise of Collaborative Consumption (Podcast)
Photo credit: Andrew Zuckerman "The great success of hyper-consumption in the 20th century was persuading consumers that sharing is somehow akin to being either a hippie or a communist," says Roo...
View ArticleBMW's New Car Share Lends You a Car Where You Find One, Lets You Leave It...
At TreeHugger, we've been big fans of car-sharing services for a long time. ZipCar has long dominated the field, pushing the envelope recently by adding hybrid vehicles and expanding into new
View ArticleHow to Use Pocketbook Environmentalism to Convert the "Non-Greenies" in Your...
We all have that one person in our lives (or maybe more) who thinks going green is just not their thing. Perhaps it's your roommate who just can't seem to
View ArticleP2P Car Sharing Has Just Launched in Spain, an Interview with SocialCar
After car sharing services like ZipCar or BMW's New Car Share that lets you pick up and drop a car anywhere you want, it is no surprise that Person to Person car sharing is growing too. This works a...
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