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Health & Fitness

Local Ride Share Options for Commuting

Reduce the expense commuting for yourself or your company by using a trip planner with Pangreen that caters to individuals and small organizations.

Want to reduce vehicle trips for your organization or company? 

Consider Pangreen, a local Ride Share organization, can help you create your own private ridesharing network for your organization, college or company.

Their ride-matching system enables you to "find, add or offer a ride within seconds on the web or on your smart phone. All the riders can share gas and make the ride cheaper! We help you to set a goal and track your carbon footprint."

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For businesses, Pangreen offers a one-stop-shop web-portal (along with mobile applications) for users and organization to carpool with anyone and to use alternative transportation to anywhere they need.

Pangreen services include:

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  • Pangreen Carpool Network
  • Pangreen Facebook Applications
  • Customized Transportation Portal and Enterprise Solutions for Organization and Large Events

How could these benefit your organization? According to Pangreen:

1. Effective Ride-Matching - Pangreen will effectively match rides for Users anytime, anywhere for your organization commute, events off your organization, trips to airport, road trips to visit families and friends, traveling and any other purposes.

2. Easier, Smart and Greener Commute –  We minimize the time for planning, organizing and managing a trip to seconds. We help users, staffs and faculty to pick the fastest, shortest, easiest, cheapest and most flexible way to commute with the lowest carbon footprint and highest energy efficiency, within the constraint of everyone's unique, complex and dynamic schedules.

3. Empowering Sustainability in transportation - Pangreen empowers your organization to be environmentally, economically and socially sustainable immediately and for the coming decades.

4. Moneywise - Pangreen will reduce your employees in transportation costs. Employers who own company vehicles will see the need for them reduced.

5. Time Saver - Pangreen will save thousands of hours for Green Committee, your organization staffs, faculty members and users.

6. Easy Reporting - Pangreen will fulfill your reporting needs on your organization sustainability and commuter trip reduction results to local, state and federal agencies.

7. Green Living Made Easy Everywhere -  convenient and stress-free for everyone on your organization.

8. One-Stop Green Platform - Pangreen will be a one-stop green platform for your organization – fulfilling your needs in the long run with more applications to come.

9. One Community - Pangreen brings people together, building a close-knit and sustainable community.

10. Your organization the Sustainability and Technology Leader- Pangreen will put your organization on the map as a leading education institution by adopting the world's first web and mobile green platform, with Your organization ridesharing network being the core applications.

They also offer services for special events where you can:

  • Customize our service for your events
  • Engage with each other through their personal profiles, or use their Facebook profile.

With Pangreen, an unexpected need for an auto repair need not interfere with your ability to get to work. Households can consider reducing the number of vehicles needed and the associated expense.

With fuel prices expected to continue to rise over the long term as cheap oil supplies dwindle, you can keep your travel and auto maintenance expenses down.

Pangreen is a sponsor for this years NW SolarFest happening July 16th at Shoreline Community College.  On their website, you can plan your trip to NW SolarFest either as a passenger or a driver and select whether you want a one-way or round trip travel.

Use this event as an opportunity to try out Pangreen for yourself. If you are pleased with the service consider participating for your work commute and if you are a business owner inform your employees of this option.

See you at NW SolarFest July 16th.

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