Go Green by Turning your car off
individual action on car idling
Posted on Wednesday 25 October 2006
From theChicagoland Bicycle Federation:
“Be socially responsible … TURN OFF YOUR ENGINE WHILE WAITING.”
Armed in August with a $150, 2-by-5-foot aluminum sign, Lynn Romanek pitched the anti-idling suggestion to Glencoe District 35, where she carpools her 6th grader to Central School. Officials quickly warmed to the idea, and Romanek produced and donated a sign for each of the three buildings in the small kindergarten through 8th-grade district.Hauled out each morning since the beginning of the school year, the 20-pound A-frame signs read: “Be socially responsible … TURN OFF YOUR ENGINE WHILE WAITING.”
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Energized by success, Romanek expanded her campaign to include the Glencoe Park District, Am Shalom congregation in Glencoe, Temple Jeremiah in Northfield, a Hubbard Woods grade school and most recently A.W. Zengeler Cleaners, which agreed this week to place no-idling signs at its drive-through locations in Libertyville, Deerfield, Northfield and Northbrook.
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So let make a difference when at school and turn off our car when we are picking up children. Not only will it save gas it will lessen the amount of carbon dioxide around a school.
This is DAY 8 of my “28 Day Blogging Challenge“
