If you’ve ever been to a convention, you probably have some of this junk sitting around your office or home: mugs, hats, pens, calendars and other items emblazoned with corporate logos.  You may use some of them for a little while but chances are, before long they’ll end up in the trash.  The brains behind The Schwaggin’ Wagon, Michael Liskin and David Preciado, realized how wasteful that really is one evening over some Thai food, and decided to do something about it.  The Schwaggin’ Wagon, which runs on sponsorships, travels to conventions and takes all that schwag that no one wants and donates it to charity.

What little things does you consciously do in the name of sustainability?

JamBase, a music fan site since 1998, is the go-to source for live music information on the web, boasting the largest database of music concert tour dates in the U.S. JamBase is a founding sponsor of The Schwaggin’ Wagon, and we are honored that they continued their support with this week’s L.A. run. We were thrilled to have a special appearance at the Mashable party by JamBase Director of Biz Dev Julie Blaustein, who wore her lei and Schwaggin Wagon sticker with apparent pride. JamBase provides an easy concert search tool on its site, while serving up quality articles, album
reviews, artist interviews, festival info, and other great content.

With JamBase’s open API, developers and users can share JamBase data
in various formats and locations online. JamBase also syndicates its
concert database via partner channels, including the just-launched
Tour Tracker franchise by AOL, found at TourTracker.com, at
music.aol.com, and in the upcoming Tour Tracker widget. Now quit reading
this blog and Go See Live Music™!

Tonight, the Wagon will be in full effect — in the form of a bio-diesel eco-limo — at Rubicon. Come by, say hi, drop your unwanted schwag and come hitch a ride to the Schwaggin’ Wagon / GirlGamer after-party at Busby’s in Santa Monica.

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GeoGraffiti is a free, community-driven messaging service, that aims to tap into the collective wisdom of the 200 million-plus mobile phone subscribers in the U.S. via a single 1-800 number. GeoGraffiti enables users to ask and answer questions, voice an opinion, announce an event, or just leave a mark:

GeoGraffiti's mission is to organize the mobile phone community's “wisdom of crowds” intelligence, and to facilitate the exchange of that location-specific intelligence by providing a voice-driven platform that is accessible from any phone and any place.

Think of GeoGraffiti as a verbal message board for sharing and retrieving Voice Mark™ messages while you are out and about visiting different places throughout the day. A Voice Mark™ is a short phone message that shares information (e.g. opinions, tips, warnings, advice) about a place, an event, a topic, or really anything else you care to share....

The Schwaggin' Wagon is proud to be sponsored by GeoGraffiti and we look forward to beta-testing the service at Twiistup4, Summer Mash LA and beyond. Join us!

Watch GeoGraffiti's how-to video below:

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Why are we so pleased at this sponsorship/partnership? It's not because they were chosen to service the Academy Awards for the last four years. It's that Eco-Limo is one of only 6 companies in California featured on Google’s Google Green site, and last year they received the Grand Prize in Sustainability by the City of Santa Monica, recognized as well by the California State Senate and Assembly! In short, they rock the eco-world. They are exactly what we were looking for in terms of transportation.

Here's their story:

ECOLIMO was the first luxury chauffeured, ground transportation company in the world committed to providing the cleanest, most fuel-efficient car service available.
ECOLIMO provides reliable, traditional executive transportation services to corporate and individual clients in low emissions, environmentally friendly vehicles utilizing hybrids, bio-diesel fuel, and natural gas. ECOLIMO is a company that prides itself on combining environmental responsibility and efficiency with reliability and professional service.
It began with a simple idea: to change the image of the luxury livery business, offering limousine service with a positive environmental impact.
Ms. Y. Fray, a 20 year veteran of the industry and business owner, opened operations in Los Angeles in 2004 with one black hybrid electric/gas Toyota Prius and has since expanded the fleet to 15 vehicles in Los Angeles. We are a certified woman owned & operated business, as well as being Terra Pass certified and a member of the Green Air Congress.
We are looking to be fully operational in Las Vegas , New York & Washington DC by 2010.

Wow. You may even see some Eco-Limo staff at Summer Mash Los Angeles! Be sure to say hello.

And the next night...
We will be at Mashable's SummerMash Los Angeles! (see post below) We are pleased to be a common thread for what is proving to be a huge technology weekend in Los Angeles.

The Schwaggin' Wagon is in talks to consider future creations with RVIP Lounge! What would happen if our vehicles had a baby?
That baby would be a karaoke singing, schwag slinging, rip-roaring party animal.

Perhaps it would live off of edible schwag? That reminds us... if you've seen any great edible (or drinkable?) schwag please send us the link. We're always looking for schwag that disappears instead of ending up in a landfill or clogging the back of a dresser drawer gathering dust.
~The Schwaggineers

The Wagon is proud to announce our partnership with Mashable for their Summer Tour 2008. The project is in stealth at the moment but be sure to check back here for updates!