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Reader offering discount tix to Green Fest today

Friday, May 6th, 2011

greenfest_igo1_2010The newly redesigned Chicago Reader is doing Groupon-style deals now. (Who isn’t these days?) We’re happy to help them pitch today’s Real Deal: $5 instead of $15 for one-day admission to the awesome Green Festival on May 14 or 15 at McCormick Place.

Haven’t heard about Green Fest? Learn more here.

Why? Because I-GO will again have a super-fun booth at the fest, which is a treasure trove of green goods, services, workshops, ethnic crafts and clothing, and savory veggie chow. It’s our fave fest of the year, and we’ll be dishing out something special too: discounted I-GO memberships.

So buy that ticket, check out this fun, enlightening, eco fair, and sign yourself or someone else up for the coolest car-sharing org in town: I-GO!

Hope to see you there!

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I-GO at Green Fest

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

We had an amazing time at the Chicago Green Festival this past weekend. It was the fourth annual incarnation of this mammoth fair dedicated to sustainability in all its varied shapes and forms, from serious consumer home products to recycled jewelry to alternative transportation. So much to see and do under one roof at Navy Pier. If you couldn’t make it this year, don’t miss it next time it rolls around. At the I-GO booth, we were once again spreading the green gospel of car sharing, tempting fair-goers with discount membership sign-ups, and entertaining them with a bumper-car game. We took a bunch of photos of the various merchants, orgs, and services on display and posted them on our Flickr photostream.

Here they are in a slideshow version:

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Join us at Green Fest this weekend!

Friday, May 21st, 2010

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Just a last-minute reminder to everyone that we’ll be at Green Fest on Navy Pier this weekend. And, yes, we’ll once again be slinging discount memberships for visitors to our booth. But, really, we just want to encourage everyone to check out the fest. This is the fourth annual version of this touring juggernaut, and it keeps getting better and more substantial. It’s a great mix of new consumer products, workshops, artisan crafts, tasty healthy chow, and way more. And at this critical moment in our history, it’s a great crash course in how the public can chip in and make a difference for our environment. Hope to see you there!

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I-GO does Green Fest

Monday, May 18th, 2009


I-GO Car Sharing waded into the eco throng with elan at this year’s Green Festival at Navy Pier this past weekend. Among the vegans, home energy auditors, eco apparel purveyors, climate action advocates and plenty more, our car sharing booth held plenty of interest. As did the three-wheeled electric Zap cars and scooters parked next to us, which were George Jetson cool.


Slinging sales pitches at the I-GO booth was fun work at Green Fest. Car sharing’s cost-saving, convenient virtues sell themselves. (In the background of the photo above right you can catch a glimpse of the all-electric Zap three-wheelers, street-legal eco-lectable rides made by a California-based company. We question whether former Conan the Barbarian Gov. Arnold could shoehorn himself into one, though.)

At left, pictured, was one of our fave installations at the fest: Chicago-based Working Bikes‘ demo of how their donated wheels help villagers in Africa and Central America do everything from power blenders to irrigate gardens. (We’re not so sure about the functional application of the armillary-sphere-looking thing here with the toy bike circumnavigating its globe. But it sure is cool.)

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Discount I-GO memberships at Green Fest

Friday, May 15th, 2009

Green Festival
Saturday & Sunday May 16th & 17th, 10am-7pm (Sat.) & 11am-6pm (Sun.)
Navy Pier, 600 E. Grand
This is the big one, folks: the annual nationally touring environmental juggernaut known as Green Fest. The fest’s Chicago stop will include the works and then some: 125 renowned authors, leaders, and educators; 350 eco-friendly businesses comprising a unique marketplace; workshops, green films, kids’ activities, live music; and delicious, organic, vegetarian cuisine.

I-GO will again have a booth (#1328) at the fest, and we encourage you to drop by. It’s always an enlightening event – and should be even more so this year with our nation’s and the world’s belated embrace of progressive environmental industry and economic incentives.

I-GO will be offering a special discount on memberships: just $25—a savings of $50 off the normal price! Current members can also earn $25 in driving credits for every new member that names them as a referral on their application form.

Go to the Green Fest website for more info.

It’s just $10-$15 admission – less than a Hollywood action flick and box of buttered popcorn, and far better for you.

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