Car Sharing and Rain

We helped pushstart the country's first non-profit Bicycle Center, the Center for Appropriate Transport (CAT) in Eugene, Oregon, in 1992. During this, based on a tip from our co-conspirator Jan VanderTuin, we began a series of investigations into Europe's Car Sharing movement, which originated in Berlin and Zurich. As a prototyping experiment, we spearheaded the first Car Sharing group in the US, the Eugene Car Co-op. The resulting media groundfire catalyzed Car Sharing around the country -- there are now groups in dozens of US cities.

Here are some resources on this site:

• Our interviews with the founders of Car Sharing in Berlin
• The original Rain story on the Berlin group
• English translation of the Berlin Car Sharing Handbook
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
• Rain's carsharing resources
• A small blurb about the Eugene Car Co-op
• An old list of net resources on Car Sharing (these days, we'd just check out this instead).

More soon!
Greg Bryant

Some Car Sharing links:

• Car Sharing Network
• City Carshare (san francisco)
• Eugene Car Co-op
• Flexcar (washington dc)
• AutoShare (toronto)