Comments on: Oakland Bag Ban + Send a note to Zip Car!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 04:00:00 +0000

Oh man, this is one of the best blogs I’ve ever seen. Your environmental efforts make you pretty hot. If I lived nearby, I’d totally take you out. Seriously.

By: just ducky

just ducky — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:17:00 +0000

Absolutely died laughing over the “Partridge boys” comment! Although I disagree with your hair assessment…I so appreciate the humor!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:40:00 +0000

Your hotlink to the Zipcar feedback form doesn’t get processed on their site – you need to login first. People should login, then try Help -> Contact Us, then proceed.

By: Rosa

Rosa — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:25:00 +0000

I just wanted to say I think your hair looks nice in that photo.

The news coverage is *never* good, and change happens anyway. Good for you with your photogenic seagull friend showing up.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:19:00 +0000

I’m a City CarShare member. I’ve been using the bags for months now and love the idea. City CarShare is a local Bay Area non profit. They have better rates than Zipcar and the cars they have are fuel efficient. The fact that they are helping members reuse bags shows how much they care about the environment and are clued into local policies. Perhaps you should join City CarShare and do your local shopping with their cars and use their bags–you can still keep your Zip membership. With City CarShare, it will cost less than Zipcar to do your shopping and you’ll be supporting a local non profit that really cares about the environment. (I pay about $7.50 per shopping trip and keep the car for an hour and a half–this includes mileage. The lowest standard rate Zipcar has is $8.25 per hour– if you don’t get a premium car at $11 or $13/hour!)

By: Cathy Mullins

Cathy Mullins — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:09:00 +0000

We’re excited that the small health food store (Nature’s Food Patch) here in Clearwater, Florida has jumped on the “no more plastic bags” bandwagon and will also be eliminating them on Earth Day. Every little bit helps!

Baby steps — frustrating but necessary.

By: Green Bean

Green Bean — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:02:00 +0000

Good for you, Beth, for speaking up! It is so important – and really hard to do sometime. Glad to hear the WF and City Car will there.

By: Timothy

Timothy — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:59:00 +0000

What a great idea about the resueable bags in each car-sharing vehicle! Another idea to go along with that is that each company could get the bags specially made with the car sharing logo and website address on them to help the car sharing companies promote their service!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:32:00 +0000

Wow – Car sharing, what a concept! We live in rural NH and even public transportation is not an option unless I was to drive 45 minutes to a more urban area to get on a bus.
I love your blog – it is so inspiring. But what a challenge, especially living in a rural area as I do! Our shopping options are more minimal, though our local Hannaford has some bulk items. I do take my reusable canvas shopping bags and my children are cloth diaper babes. However, it is so sad when I see our weekly trash is mostly plastic. I feel that it has diminished somewhat through my more recent efforts, but having children with specific needs and certain products for them are only available packaged in plastic, it is so frustrating. But your blog has made me think more deeply about what kind of world we are giving to them and what choices can I make to help diminish our impact on its demise. I have referred many people to your blog. Keep it up and, again, thank you for all that you do to keep us informed.
~Molly in NH