Blog Posts Across ZipKarma

I'm an ex-Flexcar'er. I fully admit that when I signed up ~2 years ago that I meant to sign up for Zipcar, but did Flexcar instead. There was little brand differentiation then in my mind. City Car Share was the more spendy, more of a pain, but nonprofit option. And then there were the Other One(s). I spent a mistaken year as a Flexcar'er, rarely using it because the locations were lame.

But, maaaan, I tell you, the Flexcars were clean and nary a den…

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My crazy life is such that I might have a meeting in San Mateo in the morning, then two community meetings on top of each other at night the same day. I need a car for three hours in the morning and 4.5 hours at night, say. It's cheaper for me to rent a single car for the whole span of 9am-11pm and let it just sit in the lot while I work in my home office from noon to 6:30. Seems stupid, since another member (or lots of them) migh need it in those 6.5 hours. And I'm loathe to do to seperate s…

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Check out these stats!

Take a look for yourselves at the results from last month's "You and the Environment" survey; the numbers don't lie. SF Zipsters...

• 99% recycle (wow!)
• 98% think you make a positive impact on
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This is a repost from my blog that I made last week regarding an experience with Philly Car Share (whom I heart). I'm working really hard to get PCS involved with the Philadelphia Coworking initiative for a number of reasons..some of which I outline. So here it goes:

I just got back from an afternoon driving an…

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From a comment on my Getting Greener post.

"An interesting note about Zipcar: they just launched in Vancouver (like, yesterday), and from what I can garner from my peers, they’re facing a lot of negative reaction. Continue

Awesome Zipcar video by fan pamsf

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Mad props to Tara for starting this network of Zipsters. Let's see what happens here!

Are there any Zipsters in North Beach / Telegraph Hill in San Francisco?

I wanted to tell you all about another Ning network that is for residents and fans of the North Beach neighborhood in San Francisco. If you're a member here, or anywhere else on ning, it will be easy to sign in with your existing ning id! Try it out at:
http://www.northbeachnik.org
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Chris and I choose to live car-free, but there are times when we need wheels (client meetings in the peninsula, big grocery shops, runs to Ikea, visit days to Tad's school which is in the boonies).

We used to rent cars on sites like Priceline, where we could get a deal for around $20/day. But the insurance costs (because we don't own a car, we…

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