SpaceShare Green Travel -- carpool, community building
SpaceShare Green Travel builds ride- and room-share tools for festivals and conferences. Our sister effort Verdant Event builds complete websites for conferences with greening tools integrated.
Any other means of transportation is likely to be better. Can you possibly take a train or carpool?
Book non-stop flights, they are much more fuel efficient: less miles, and less climbing.
Every extra pound on a flight means more fuel to carry you -- pack lightly. The more people on a flight, the less fuel per person -- so flying coach counts too. Pee Green »Someone somewhere realized that if you pee before you board, you'll be just a bit lighter!
Take public transit rather than a vehicle, or tell the event about Spaceshare's ride-sharing services. Conference colors »Carrying materials related to your conference just might lead to a last-minute connection to share a taxi, shuttle, or make public transit social.
Ever more popular as an answer to the pollution of flying, carbon offsetting is coming to resemble Indulgences. more »Carbon offsets are a token: a great way to measure how much impact you've had, but they don't really undo it. If you want to make a donation to an environmental cause, they're often one of the least efficient uses of your money -- support a local cause you know something about; buy more organics!
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We looked. We have yet to find an airline that is making consistent, significant greening efforts