Car Sharing in Community

One of the many benefits of community is sharing resources. But sharing cars? What better way to lower your carbon footprint! Join EcoVillage resident Dawn Montanye and Ithaca CarShare Associate Director Anna Cook as they discuss the benefits of community car-sharing, whether it’s within your local community or group of friends, or through a service such as Ithaca CarShare.  

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Dawn Montanye has 25 years of experience immersed in the field of environmental sustainability. She worked in environmental conservation for twenty years, including 11 years with the World Wildlife Fund, focused on economic and social policy and its impacts on biodiversity and poverty. After coming to Ithaca, Dawn worked as a consultant with Thrive EcoVillage Education Center (formerly Learn@EcoVillage) to develop a five year strategic plan and then transitioned to an Advisory Board member. Dawn currently works at Cornell Cooperative Extension as part of the Environment team. She leads the Way2Go transportation program which focuses on transportation education and problem solving for improving community access to transportation and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.  Dawn is part of an initiative to create a village-wide carshare program at EcoVillage Ithaca. She also works closely with Ithaca Carshare as part of her work with Cooperative Extension.  From these applied experiences, Dawn has knowledge and insights on a variety of carshare models. She is a passionate advocate for identifying how communities can share resources.

Anna Cook

Anna Cook brings over a decade of expertise working in shared mobility and transportation sustainability work.  She has worked at Ithaca Carshare since its launch in 2008, and has played a key role in operational management, member services, and organizational development as the service has seen significant growth to its current size of 30 cars and 1400 members.  In 2016 she advocated for the expansion of Ithaca Carshare to the non-profit umbrella organization The Center for Community Transportation, with a lens on bringing the mission of enhancing community access to transportation while reducing its negative environmental and economic impacts beyond solely carsharing.  The Center for Community Transportation now houses Bike Walk Tompkins advocacy and education work around bike and pedestrian issues and the Backup Ride Home service for Ithaca area commuters. Its scope of work continues to broaden in collaboration with many community partners.  Anna has played a core role in building systems essential to the day-to-day operation and ongoing growth of the organization. 

An avid outdoor recreationist and bike enthusiast, Anna served as a 7-year board member of Cycle-CNY (a chapter of the International Mountain Bike Association) and  is a co-founder of the Cycle-CNY women’s bike skills series.

Anna has a B.A. in Environmental Studies from Ithaca College, where she focused on communication and sustainability.