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Cutting Your Car Use:
Save Money, Be Healthy, Be Green!
  Tired of traffic? Frustrated by rising fuel costs? Concerned about climate change? "You can make a difference," says Cutting Your Car Use. Ghent has packed this great little back-pocket guide with essential tips telling how we can all reap the benefits of driving less. This timely, informative and easy-to-read handbook offer solutions. — Katie Alvord, author of Divorce Your Car! Ending the Love Affair with the Automobile.
Imagine living where every child can walk or cycle to school in safety, where local businesses thrive and where a car is not essential to enjoy life. Picture how different your neighborhood would be with fewer moving cars. Think how much better your life might be if you were in a car less often...
Cutting down on the time you spend in cars will save you money, benefit your health and improve everyone's quality of life. Cutting Your Car Use is a practical guide for people who want to reduce their car dependency by making simple changes to their travel habits, or by sharing or giving up their car. It helps readers to:
- Understand the real cost of car use
- Evaluate alternatives to personal car ownership
- Plan trips using a mix of transportation modes.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Why Cut Your Car Use?
- How Are You Using Your Car?
- Looking at the Alternatives
- Changing Your Travel Habits
- Making Better Use of Your Car
- Living Without a Car
- Carfree Places
- Talking to Your Employer
- Getting Active
- The Rebound Effect
- Resources
- Greyhound and Amtrak Maps
- Metric Conversion
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
A lively, useful, and humorous look at kicking our nasty national habit: the unstoppable automobile. Not just an agreeable read, but a fact-filled and sound rationale of statistics and suggestions that are both pragmatic and lively.
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PRODUCT DETAILS:- Publisher: New Society Publishers — 2006
- Author: Randall Ghent, Anna Semlyen
- Binding: Paperback — 5 x 7 inches
- Pages: 120 — Black & white illustrations
- ISBN: 0865715580
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