Cumberland BC: The Cumberlander Articles Section
Regional · 10th June 2009
Herb Jones
New Ride Share Website Serves Comox Valley Residents
Denman Island, B.C. June 1, 2009 - Renewable Energy Denman Island, a small grassroots organization with the aid of a grant from Eco-Action Canada, has created a Ride Share website for the use of residents in the Comox Valley and surrounding area. Just launched this past month, it is looking for users to log onto www.islandrideshare.com and begin offering rides to fellow travelers, requesting rides for near or far destinations and using the “Errand” type of ride in which you request a small errand such a picking up an article at a store, dropping off a video, or doing a small bit of shopping. Conversely, the errand function could simply be a listing in which you offer to do an errand for someone at a location to which you are traveling.
Sharon Clarke of Denman Island was thrilled with the website. She noted, “It saves me the expense of a ferry ride to Courtenay to pick up an item or two that I needed right away.” Louise Bell, local Island Trustee, stated that she often travels to points south on Vancouver Island and uses the website to list the availability of a ride with her whenever she travels on Trust business.
Renewable Energy Denman Island chose to seek a grant and create this website because it believes in the importance of helping people learn how to double up on sharing the fossil fuel that it takes to travel and of cutting down on the carbon emissions generated. It is hoped that this website will be widely used and play a role in getting us more prepared for the twin challenges of peak oil and climate change which loom closer by the year.
Denman Island, B.C. June 1, 2009 - Renewable Energy Denman Island, a small grassroots organization with the aid of a grant from Eco-Action Canada, has created a Ride Share website for the use of residents in the Comox Valley and surrounding area. Just launched this past month, it is looking for users to log onto www.islandrideshare.com and begin offering rides to fellow travelers, requesting rides for near or far destinations and using the “Errand” type of ride in which you request a small errand such a picking up an article at a store, dropping off a video, or doing a small bit of shopping. Conversely, the errand function could simply be a listing in which you offer to do an errand for someone at a location to which you are traveling.
Sharon Clarke of Denman Island was thrilled with the website. She noted, “It saves me the expense of a ferry ride to Courtenay to pick up an item or two that I needed right away.” Louise Bell, local Island Trustee, stated that she often travels to points south on Vancouver Island and uses the website to list the availability of a ride with her whenever she travels on Trust business.
Renewable Energy Denman Island chose to seek a grant and create this website because it believes in the importance of helping people learn how to double up on sharing the fossil fuel that it takes to travel and of cutting down on the carbon emissions generated. It is hoped that this website will be widely used and play a role in getting us more prepared for the twin challenges of peak oil and climate change which loom closer by the year.