Yesterday's Live Earth concert called attention to the climate crisis and their website provides solutions so that you can learn how to do your part to save the planet. You can start by taking a 3-minute interactive quiz and finding out "What's Your Live Impact?" score. The quiz asks questions about your home, job, shopping, transportation and community to measure your impact on the environment. Along the way, you'll be asked if you want to make a pledge to change something such as using CFL light bulbs or to share the ride one day a week. What's your score? You can also make a public commitment to do something and add your name to the list of people willing to help.
In promoting their Global Warming Survival Handbook they provide some teasers on the web site about some of the solutions you'll find inside. Those include solutions sections on:
No. 5: Sub-Size It - don't buy big cars.
No. 6: Green Your Car - small changes can save tons of CO2.
No. 21: Work at Home - commute to your home office.
No. 35: Ride a Bike - using one will keep you healthy and happy.
No. 36: Decongest Downtown - policies for minimizing car use can make cities healthier and more pleasant.
No. 42: Share the Driving - feel the guilt when you drive solo?
Sounds like an interesting book. It's good to see that sharing the ride, riding your bike or walking and taking mass transit instead of driving alone is hitting the mainstream as being green and doing your part to help the planet. Let's hope this new public consciousness about the impacts of how we travel leads more people to consider using these options for even some of their trips. Every bit helps our environment, decreases congestion and improves our quality of life.
Chris Hamilton is the Commuter Services Chief for Arlington County, manager of CommuterPageBlog and a biking/Metro commuter from Rosemont in Alexandria
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