When we talk about “green” transportation, most of us automatically think of hybrid cars. Hybrid cars are, of course, more efficient than regular cars, but there are many other aspects of your transportation that you can make greener. Particularly when talking about cars, the greenest change you can make is to try to eliminate your use of them. We need to remember that there isn’t a need to use our own set of wheels to get everywhere, or anywhere.

I suggest that we make some guidelines and goals for you. We can look at the paths between our home and destinations. If the place we’re going is less than a mile away, couldn’t we just walk? What about three miles away?  That potentially could be just a 15 minute bike-ride. It will keep us in healthier shape as well.

We should take a closer look into what’s available in our neighborhoods. Are there forms of public transportation, perhaps a city bus? Using it will save gas for our vehicles while increasing the efficiency of the use. The bus will drive anyway, why not use it? The more people that use public transportation, the better the system will become. If you’re in a bigger city, using the metro is probably the cheapest and quickest alternative to walking. It has the same concept as buses, they are running anyway, and the use of them will only make things better while saving you money.

It would be wise to track the result of the changes we make in order to live a greener lifestyle.  One way to do this is to keep track of our average mileage in our car per week over time. We should then take a look at why some weeks are higher than others and what you possibly could tweak in order to get to the lowest possible numbers. We can set a goal. If we normally drive 300 miles a week, we should see if we can get this down to 290, or maybe even lower. It is unreasonable to suggest that we should be able to bring this down to 0 miles per week, but imagine if we all could.

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