Have you seen one of the 26 HOURCAR hybrids driving around the metro and wondered what it was all about? It makes not owning a car possible! We all know that our beautiful metro area has many great transportation alternatives to the automobile, but sometimes these options don't fit into the demands of modern life and urban sprawl. For those instances our staff, who almost entirely take the bus or bike to work, can now use HOURCAR to get to where they need to go! HOURCAR is easy to sign up for and easy to use. Here's the gist: you sign up online to become a member (nonprofits get a membership for free!), you complete a short orientation online, pay $25 per driver for a traffic background check, and they send you a key FOB and a great t-shirt! To rent the car you either call or go online to book the HOURCAR nearest you at one of the 21 locations. You can rent the car from 45 minutes up to the whole day. At $6 an hour and $0.25/mile (this includes gas) it's a steal of a deal. Our favorite car to rent is located at Selby and Dale - it's an electric car charged by solar power. You can't get much better than that!

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It takes about 20 gallons of water a week to keep our thirsty Fresh Energy employees hydrated. Where did all that water come from? From nine, five-gallon plastic jugs that were driven here every other week by a very nice delivery man. These jugs happily came and went without a thought every week for years until one day our executive director asked me why we were contributing to the privatization of water. I didn't have an answer for him.

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Calling all volunteers! Looking for a way to be more involved in our work? Join our new and improved volunteer team! We've restructured and re-energized our volunteer program to give you more opportunities to turn your ideals into action.

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