Carpool – The New Buzz Word To Fight Global Warming
2 comments »Carpooling has been there for quite some time in western countries but India is still waking up to it. Recently some websites have been launched to provide online carpooling systems and response are good. http://www.carpoolglobal.com is one such website that has many useful features to bring people together for a smooth carpool ride. Corporate world is also responding well to it and few of them are tieing up with these websites for their internal carpool use. People are getting worried about global warming and seriously taking steps to fight it. Carpool is in thing now in big cities of India like Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Pune, Kolkata etc
We have to seriously think about carpooling as one of the options to fight global warming before it too late.
India is up there to fight global warming!!
Carpooling
July 8, 2009 2 comments »Carpooling (also known as car-sharing, ride-sharing, lift-sharing), is the shared use of a car, especially for commuting to work, often by people who each have a car but travel together to save cost and to promote other socio-environmental benefits. In some locations, there are special facilities intended to encourage carpooling such as designated pick-up points and high-occupancy vehicle lanes which only allow cars with multiple riders at certain times of the day.
Carpool projects have been around in a structured form since the mid-1970s and have recently begun to more extensively use the Internet and other software support systems. With the recent advent of mobile phones and SMS, there is a push to integrate these technologies into more flexible systems on the internet.
World Environment Day , 5th June, 2009
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The theme for WED 2009 is ‘Your Planet Needs You-UNite to Combat Climate Change’. It reflects the urgency for nations to agree on a new deal at the crucial climate convention meeting in Copenhagen some 180 days later in the year, and the links with overcoming poverty and improved management of forests.
This year’s host is Mexico which reflects the growing role of the Latin American country in the fight against climate change, including its growing participation in the carbon markets.
Come Join us to fight Global Warming on World Environment Day and say yes to Car Pooling!
How to find a carpool in your area??
2 comments »There are lots of great ways to find carpool partners. Click Here to search for ads posted in this website with the database of hundreds of interested carpoolers. You’ll receive a match list with the names and contact information of those persons who match your commute pattern (home addresses are never included on the match lists and home numbers may be excluded as well.) Just contact the names on that list and make your carpool arrangements. If you don’t find a match, you can post a new ad.
You can contact co-workers and neighbors. Or post a sign in on your car window or on bulletin boards at work.
You can contact co-workers and neighbors. Or post a sign in on your car window or on bulletin boards at work.
Be sure to call everyone whose name you receive. Their hours may be flexible. They may be willing to meet you at a convenient pick-up point. And best of all, they may know other people interested in carpooling!
