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Don't Pay the Idiot Tax
The idiot tax is being paid by everyone who traded a little more green space for a longer commute, a few more cupholders and a little more convenience for much poorer gas mileage, all the choices that so many people have made when the price of fuel was not a consideration.
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5 Staycations You Can Take At Home
A staycation is a type of a vacation. Specifically, it is one where no, or very little, actual vacating takes place. What exactly constitutes a staycation is not clearly defined. It can mean both a vacation spent relaxing at home or a vacation to nearby and local attractions.
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Choose to Drive the Most Fuel-Efficient Cars of 2009
We are in quite the pickle when it comes to cars. Our society is based on transporting goods and people from one place to another inside of gasoline-powered vehicles. After awhile, we realized that we can't transport things in oil-powered contraptions forever, and that our climate and possibly our society might be destroyed by the machines we've based it on.
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Get Your Car Recession-Ready
In Western Canada, farmers too impoverished to buy gas would pull out the engines and tow the car by horse.In winter, it is even more important to be careful about your driving habits and your maintenance; When the mercury plummets, you car's fuel efficiency can drop by rates of up to 50 percent.
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Get on Board with Car Sharing
A great alternative to car ownership, especially for those of us who live in cities, car-sharing services offer the opportunity to have ready access to wheels without the hassles of paying for gas and insurance, and even finding parking.Companies like Zipcar (which recently expanded) operate in many major cities across...
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How to Go Green: Public Transportation
Public transportation, while maybe not as enjoyable as commuting in your own personal vehicle, does ease congestion, reduce emissions, and give you plenty of quality time to people watch, as well as get to know your "neighbours." In addition, public transportation allows you to relax, read or nap during that commute instead of fighting and stressing and feeling the road rage. So, what do we mean by public transportation? Well, for this article we are focusing on buses, trains, planes and ferries/boats, whether used for the daily commute or just to get around. For those of you interested in leaving that car at home, these tips discuss the merits of public transportation as well as offer suggestions for how to expand and improve public transportation in your community.
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How to Travel for $2 per Gallon
This was the dilemma I was faced with today as I prepared to depart for Houston from Austin for Father's Day weekend... I could either drive the 160 miles by myself and pay $4 a gallon...OR...I could take a passenger and pay only $2 a gallon for my share. I calculated the amount of gallons used based on the MPG of my...
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7 Ways to Take Charge of Your Commute and Gas Expenses
With gas prices in a constant and often unpredictable flux, we'll help you take matters into your own hands by reducing your carbon footprint, consumption, fossil fuel spending, and dependency using these seven tips.
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Be Part of a Successful Rideshare Experience
Many commuters have learned that being car-free is not only realistic, but also ideal in cities with good planning. But transportation between cities is a bit more challenging for the car-less. While the bus and the train connect most cities, it is not always cheap, convenient, or schedule permitting. That is why ridesharing is becoming a more and more attractive option.
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Which Internet Carpool Service is Right for You?
Thanks to that handy series of tubes known as the Internet (thanks, Mr. Stevens) greening your commute is easier than ever. It's become increasingly simple to find or start a carpool. There are plenty of distinct websites offering the service to choose from?maybe too many.
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Get Recession-Ready: Travel Locally
"If I am going to go looking for my heart's desire, I willn't go any further than my own back yard," said Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. Marcel Proust was of the same mind: "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."In rural areas, walks at these times increase the chances
