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Sun Diego Charter in “Greenest Fleet” Competition

Local green transportation leader, Sun Diego Charter is participating in in BUSRide magazine’s competition to be the greenest fleet/company and they could really use your help!!

You can vote for Sun Diego Charter Company to be the “Greenest Fleet” by visiting 2009 BUSRide Clean Energy / How Green? Competition.

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Take Public Transportation To Your Next San Diego Event.

Plan It Green is excited to see these new busses implemented into the San Diego MTS fleet. Mass transit is taking on new a new shape and in GREEN fashion! San Diego MTS purchased 26 of the buses using Federal dollars and State Proposition 1B funds, which was approved by voters in November 2006. Manufactured by North American Bus Industries (NABI), the 26 buses cost $20.4 million and feature wide doors, low floors, a wheelchair ramp, seating for 57 people, and two places for people using wheelchairs.

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Carpooling Can Help Reduce Your Event’s Carbon Footprint!

Do your bit to reduce pollution, traffic congestion and help the environment. One of our many challenges planning events is the effort to get people to and from the locations of an event, lodging and airports. We look at public transportation to reduce event costs and the next option is always a transportation vendor that will have an effect on the bottom line. However, with the economy on everyone’s mind and the ever tightening event budgets, we suggest really looking at the effects of carpooling.

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San Diego Launches it’s First Green Transporation Company

Wherever Green is San Diego’s first green transportation company. They run on 100% vegetable oil and are doing their part to keep San Diego Beautiful one ride at a time.

Wherever Shuttle

The following is an article that appeared in the Epoch Times San Diego, written by Joshua Philip.

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