As we enter June, your carpool is likely in full swing. Let’s make sure we’re staying on top of maintenance and cleanliness to keep our vehicles in good shape this summer!
Riding a bike is full of benefits all on its own. Making it your commute mode just keeps the good times rolling. With Bike to Work Week coming up next week, you may be asking: What do we love so much about biking to work?
At the Rideshare office, the work we do each day is helping people around the US reduce their carbon footprint by sharing the ride. We move people together every day, and in the last 25 years, our company has reduced CO2 in our air by over 700 million pounds.
So, how do we go the extra mile during a special time like Earth Month each April? We work together to make changes in our daily lives to do a little more to reduce our individual carbon footprints! Coming together makes the effort feel like teamwork, and it’s great to share what we’ve been doing both in the office and at home.
With Earth Day coming up this Saturday, April 22nd, let’s get green!
Did you know that fossil fuels supply around 80% of the world’s energy? Being such an overwhelmingly dominant energy source, fossil fuels were found to be responsible for 89% of global CO2 emissions in 2019.
With the fossil fuel industry powering so much of our world, it can feel like the standard—like there’s no other way to live. But by making small changes in our daily lives, we can begin to decarbonize our lifestyles for the greater purpose of becoming less dependent on these detrimentally harmful fossil fuels.
Transportation is a large contributing factor to our carbon footprints. To kick off Earth Month, let’s talk about how we can begin the transition into sustainability in small ways while moving around our world that will lead to a greater impact.
At Rideshare, our partnerships allow our mission to reach new people in ways that enrich the work we do. Our most recent partnership venture has been with Connecticut’s women’s professional hockey team, CT Whale, and it has already proven worthwhile.
In the early discussions of how our two organizations could align, we had tons of ideas. The relationship that was meant to happen fell into place when we learned more about the disadvantages that many women’s and girl’s hockey teams face compared to men’s and boy’s teams.
Stories were shared with us of how youth girl’s teams often have to change in bathroom stalls instead of locker rooms and take yellow school buses on trips while youth boy’s teams would load onto coach buses. We also learned that CT Whale, within the Premier Hockey Federation, did not even have access to an equipment van for the team’s belongings, a mainstream benefit within the NHL. This was the Eureka! moment for our partnership.
As an organization run by a woman CEO, Nanci Fitzgerald, with many incredible women making up our team at Rideshare, we knew fitting into a solution for this team made perfect sense for us—Especially when we learned that we could do so by providing a vehicle for them to begin to break down the barrier of disadvantages for women’s sports.