Dear PickupPal Members,
Effective immediately, PickupPal will no longer charge drivers a 7% commission:
No fees, no accounting, nothing but 100% FREE enjoyment of PickupPal!
This also means that any and all commission amounts payable by drivers to PickupPal are canceled and no longer owing, period.
We are scrapping the 7% commission, effective immediately, because of the enormous environmental [...]
Ohhhh boy what a crazy couple days it has been. Starting things off with the Dave Matthews Band in Toronto on Wednesday! Special thanks to Josh from Reverb for the awesome tickets and the backstage passes and VIP treatment (having dinner with the band and crew - saweeet!). What Seats! What a [...]
Greenwashing is a phrase that describes the act of pretending to be green just to look good. Greenwashing companies miss-lead consumers about the benefits of their brands, products and services. Generally, they will accentuate minor green attributes whilst downplaying bigger, environmentally damaging effects.
The practice of greenwashing is absolutely rife, most brand-name products are guilty. This [...]
http://rossdawsonblog.com/weblog/archives/2008/06/official_launch.html
Thanks, Ross!
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I must apologize for the brief intermission on posting to the blog - it is not because I don’t want to - more we are super busy and finding the time has been a challenge.
So we are off to hit the road - Tomorrow the Dave Matthews Band at the Molson Amphitheater in Toronto and [...]
One of my favourite features on our site is the Eco Counter (find it in the lower right hand side of our home page, and also in the side-bar on our partner pages), but it has taken us a while to refine this neat little feature.
The Eco Counter had been on the drawing board for [...]
I love maps, I love trying to find places i have lived or visited just by scrolling around Google Earth seeing if i can remember my way around… I look for places i have stayed on holiday like the little B&B whose name I’ve long ago forgotten but I remember that road up from the [...]
We are proud to announce that Van’s Warped Tour has chosen to team up with PickupPal to get punk fans to all of their 46 festival dates. This is a huge honour for me personally because I was and still am a fan of punk music.
It started with Patti Smith and a bit of [...]
PickupPal and the Clean Air Foundation are very excited about the government of Canada’s recent commitment to make a difference in getting old cars off the road and recycled properly. Vehicles built before 1995 produce about 19 times more air pollutants than 2004 and newer modeled cars. In fact, one-third of the vehicles driven [...]
Greening Events, Concerts and Companies to Help Reduce Greenhouse Gases
TORONTO, ONTARIO-(PRNewswire - June 4, 2008) PickupPal, the World’s first online transportation marketplace, reports strong membership growth fueled by high gas prices, environmental concerns, and linkages with major events and festivals. Through its unique Eco-Rideshare Program (ERP), PickupPal provides custom rideshare websites on behalf [...]