How Did NASA Build Communities of Space Lovers? Answer: It’s Written In The Stars

Ever since the 1969 Apollo launch to the moon, NASA has had some big moon boots to fill when it comes to engaging its audience.

ArticlesMelissa PocekOctober 17, 2021NASA, Space, NASA social

For JetBlue, Eco-Awareness Isn’t Just a Pie in the Sky

Before Sophia Leonora Mendelsohn became the Head of Sustainability at JetBlue, she worked at factories in China and realized how the things we buy connect us to the places where they're made, even if they're halfway around the planet. That fueled her passion for preserving water and ...

ArticlesMelissa PocekApril 15, 2021sustainability, JetBlue, Climate Change, Climate Activist

Green Couch

If you're ever in Vancouver and spy a Zipcar pickup with a groovy green couch in tow, you're not witnessing a move, but a movie. Well, a music video series, to be exact, featuring awesome bands rocking out on one of the most famous furniture pieces around. Find out how the guerilla music video project began, plus sneak a peek at the latest Green Couch Session.

VideosMelissa PocekApril 2, 2021Green Couch, Zipcar, Vancouver

In Google's Ingress, Virtual Reality Becomes Reality | Zipcar

Dreamed up by Niantic Labs, Ingress takes gaming to a new level, fostering a community of gamers who might ordinarily play indoors and teaming them up with new friends to tackle complex, real-time, and super fun challenges online and off. Want in?

VideosMelissa PocekFebruary 28, 2021Niantic Labs, Google, Zipcar, Ingress

Bureo Skateboards Helps Turn the Tide on Plastic Pollution

Thankfully, more and more industries are beginning to make sustainable practices standard practice. Even sports brands — which have historically trended toward new, manmade materials to improve performance no matter what the environmental cost — are now turning a new, eco-friendlier leaf.

Melissa PocekJanuary 16, 2021Plastic, Plastic Pollution, Bureo, Recycle, Zipcar

Compostwheels Turns Trash into Treasure

Compostwheels Turns Trash into Treasure. Compostwheels compost Atlanta Atlanta car share sustainable cities sustainable communities David Paull entrepreneur. Popular Posts. December 9, 2015. Future City. These 8 Hidden Underground Cities Are Groundbreaking (Literally) December 2, 2019. Our Stories.

VideosMelissa PocekNovember 28, 2020Compostwheels, Recycle, Compost, sustainability

RunKeeper Runs On People Power

While running is a solitary sport, runners can be quite the communal bunch. From jogging clubs to chilly morning high-fives, road warriors love to support each other. Whether you're working towards a personal record or tackling your first 5K, an uplifting community makes it easier to strap on those sneakers and go.

ArticlesMelissa PocekApril 24, 2020RunKeeper, Running, Health trackers, Zipcar

Chicago's Roti delivers meals when you want them | Zipcar for Business

Watch and drool. Roti is a crowd-pleaser among the office denizens in downtown Chicago: http://roti.com. For bigger deliveries, they use Zipvan.

VideosMelissa PocekMarch 28, 2020Chicago, Roti, Zipcar

Birds of Prey and Barbecue. Northampton’s Got It All.

Western Massachusetts is known for leaf-peeping and apple-picking, but there's plenty of culture and entertainment to be had, even when autumn is far off in the future. Tucked between the rolling green hills of this hiker's paradise is a wealth of culture and entertainment.

ArticlesMelissa PocekJuly 8, 2019roadtrip, Birds of Prey, Barbecue, Northampton

Downtown Project | Fueling Las Vegas Startups |

Zappos CEO, Tony Hsieh, isn't just about building successful businesses, but communities as well. In 2011, he announced that he would invest millions of his own wealth to revive a sprawl of land just north of the neon Vegas strip. Except he wouldn't be polishing up second-rate casinos and motels; he'd be creating a new center for innovation, fostering as many startups as he could pack into this city within a city. Today's startups, like Zappos and Zipcar before them, thrive on the community-based mentality instilled in Downtown Project. With daily events and mentoring programs, the Vegas startup community is able to bounce ideas off each other, improve their products, and learn new insights. Affordable and fun offices, ample coworking spaces, and a supportive community make Downtown Projects one of the biggest things in tech right now.

VideosMelissa PocekOctober 6, 2016DTLV, Downtown Project, Tech Co, Startup, Las Vegas

Awesome Orchestra

If you hear the word “symphony” and picture tuxedo’ed players in a pit, you’re not alone. That’s what makes San Francisco’s Awesöme Orchestra so, well, awesome. Far from the traditionally stuffy opera house scene, Awesöme Orchestra is casual and open to all — no auditions or owned instruments necessary. Instead, pipes, horns, strings, and drums are brought in and loaned out as needed (that’s where Zipvans come in), and anyone, regardless of experience, is welcome to play, or just listen in. Musical selections are unconventional, too, ranging from Beethoven to Björk, and Debussy to Daft Punk. Sneak a peak.

VideosMelissa PocekFebruary 4, 2016San Francisco, Awesome Orchestra, Zipcar