I-GO green-cleaning entrepreneur on Chicago Tonight

Tanya Killian, the dynamic entrepreneur behind the local green-friendly cleaning service I-GO uses, was featured on Chicago Tonight yesterday in a segment on microcredit loans. Killian's company, WashMe-EnviGreen, handles our entire fleet. I-GO makes a cameo appearance. If microcredit can help such hard-working, passionate folks like Tanya, we think it's a concept worth extending and building upon.

Congrats, Tanya!

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Urban Sustianablity: Are big cities the greenest of all?

Contrary to conventional thinking about the environment, New Yorker staff writer David Owen argues that the greenest community in the United States is not Portland, Oregon, or Snowmass, Colorado, but New York, New York. Most Americans think of crowded cities as ecological nightmares, yet residents of compact urban centers, Owen shows, individually consume less oil, electricity, and water than other Americans. Hear the author share his views on why living in cities is the best way to be green.

Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less
are the Keys to Sustainability

Thursday, October 1
6:00pm lecture
7:30pm book signing

COST $15 general public; $10 CAF Members; $5 students with valid ID
LOCATION Chicago Architecture Foundation, 224 South Michigan Avenue
RSVP Register online or call Whitney Moeller at 312.922.3432 x271

Northwestern U: I-GO's got class

Wildcats rules. Especially when they write about us.

I-GO wins Illinois Environmental Leadership Award!

The Illinois Environmental Council, which provides a forum for statewide environmentalists in Springfield and promotes sound environmental laws and policies, honored I-GO Car Sharing at its 7th annual Environmental Leadership Dinner, Sept. 24, at Hotel InterContinental Chicago. I-GO was one of three recipients of the Environmental Leadership Award, along with 18th District Illinois State Rep. Julie Hamos and the Austin-Wide Parent Network's joint initiative with the Healthy Schools Campaign. The keynote speaker was no slouch either: Jon Carson, chief of staff for the White House Council on Environmental Quality. I-GO got the nod for being "a successful social enterprise that is reducing the individual and societal costs of driving."

Evolution of the wheel, New Yorker-style

Best transportation-themed magazine cover ever?

I-GO CEO Sharon Feigon shares vision for car sharing

Curious to hear how the I-GO Car Sharing braintrust views car sharing? The Great Lakes Urban Exchange—an org dedicated to the revitalization of the Great Lakes region through positive social change and environmental progress—recently interviewed I-GO's CEO Sharon Feigon and included the discussion as a podcast in a blog post.

Sharon talks about the impetus for I-GO, its mission to reduce car ownership and greenhouse gas emissions, partner on sustainable transportation for the benefit of all communities, and much more.

You won't find a Beemer in I-GO's fleet. But you will find a bona fide, earnest desire to improve our world for the better.

I-GO 'round the world

Cara Dillon is a honey-toned folk singer from Ireland who's just one of many great acts playing this year's World Music Festival. The fest gigs happen all over Chicago from today through next Thursday. Dillon's on the bill tomorrow with Kusun Ensemble from Ghana and our hometown's own Chicago Afrobeat Project at the Edgewater GRalley, a cool new event that takes place in and around the alleys off Granville in the Edgewater 'hood. I-GO will be getting folks to tune into car sharing by offering $25 membership sign-ups at the event. We hope saving big bucks on car expenses is music to your ears, though it'll be tough competing with these dulcet pipes from the Emerald Isle.