New Alumni Benefit: Zipcar!

January 12, 2009

Getting a NOLS education provides many benefits— leadership experience, technical expertise, wilderness medicine knowledge, and powerful connections to wild lands are a just few of the obvious ways our students gain from their time with NOLS.

ZipcarlogoBut being a NOLS grad has other benefits too— we’ve teamed up with Zipcar, the car-sharing community, to offer all of our alumni (well, you do have to be 21+) discounted application fees (free) and memberships. Zipcar has over 5,500 cars sprinkled across about a dozen major cities and about 50 university campuses. Zipcar lets you reserve and use a car (comes with fuel, insurance and a parking space) by the hour or by the day. Not only is it convenient, it’s also a great conservation step— not everyone needs to own a car.

To get special NOLS alumni rates, click this Zipcar link. From there you can examine Zipcar’s system and locations to see if it’s something that’ll work for you. Zipcar will ask you for some personal information to approve your driving and credit status. You’ll get the discounted rates upon confirmation of your NOLS and/or WMI alumni status.

We’re thrilled to offer this conservation-minded collaboration with Zipcar. Contact the NOLS Alumni Relations Department with questions. Happy motoring!

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Rich Brame

Rich Brame came to NOLS in the 80's as a Fall Semester in the Rockies student and worked his first NOLS course at Wind Cave National Park in 1984. Since then, he's worked varied NOLS trips and courses on five continents—with a few more on the way. Rich does some frontcountry shenanigans for NOLS, too. He's headed up NOLS' public policy, research, LNT, Yukon programs and most recently in the Alumni Relations Department.