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.
In theory, webcasts would let us share all the information we share at a conference without ever getting in a car or plane. In reality, people want to meet -- but often they most look for connections that last after a meeting. Can you find a way to hold local meetings? Keep people in their home city or region, and they can socialize with colleagues close enough to maintain connections, without burning jet fuel.
Will your organization be less cohesive by having less attendees at the annual gathering? Take a look at Beaming Bioneers, a California conference that strengthen's its own grassroots participation by not having everyone travel to the main meeting.