For each mile you walk, jog, skip, bike, skateboard, or ride a horse, donkey, or elephant (you get tie idea) instead of driving, you keep one pound of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere.
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Check out this video. It’s a great idea. There must be SOME way we could do this in our own communities.
https://www.facebook.com/DavidAvocadoWolfe/videos/10154711180561512/
Cities in the San Francisco Bay Area now have bike-share programs. Rent a bike for an hour or a day to run errands, sight-see, etc. (More details can be found at http://bayareabikeshare.com.) Your city doesn’t have such a program? Propose it to your local governing board.
Why? Because if all Americans aged 10-74 walked or biked half an hour a day instead of driving we would save 6.5 billion gallons of gas and lose 3 billion pounds off our bodies!
[For more easy, money-saving, Earth-friendly tips, download a FREE copy of Green Riches: Help the Earth & Your Budget. Go to www.Smashwords.com/books/view/7000 or your favorite e-book seller and download to your computer or e-book device. Totally free, with no strings attached.]
Here’s an odd “Week” (I haven’t told you about one in a long while): Stop on Red Week, Aug. 8-13, 2016. It’s a week declared by The National Coalition for Safer Roads (NCSR). All of us, whether in a car, on a bike, or on foot, are reminded to stop at red lights. Common sense, right?
Of course. So why don’t we do it? Look at the statistics for 2014. Some 709 people were killed and another 126,000 injured because somebody ran a red light. I understand that we all lead busy lives, but too busy to spend a few minutes of our day stopped at a light so someone can cross the street, or too interested in biking to our destination that we sail through (or cut into the crosswalk and pretend to be a pedestrian), or so daring that we dash across the street, thinking we can slip between traffic?
Anyway, at first I thought the idea of this Week was funny, as though we should do it for a week then go back to ignoring red lights the rest of the time. Now, though, I see it as a great idea, but one that should be stretched out to 52 weeks every year.
Here’s an idea–when you see red, stop. Be safe out there, please, Readers.
Maybe you didn’t know that today is “International Walk or Bike to School Day.” 40 countries are encouraging kids and their parents to walk or bike to school. How often do 40 countries agree on anything?
If you didn’t know or forgot, how about tomorrow (and the next day and the next…)? Get out of your car, put a little neighborhood group together, and get the kids to school and home under their own foot-power. You may get to know a neighbor better, maker some play-dates, decide that J.J. Smythe is a kid you definitely want to keep away from your family–all sorts of things. You and the kids get a little fresh air and exercise. You save gas and wear-and-tear on your car (those stop/starts/jerks of both kinds involved in the drop-off are hard on your car).
Overall, it’s healthy–for you AND for the earth.