Things You Can Do To Improve Our Air

Instead of driving or to drive smarter, consider:

• Walking
• Biking
  
• Telecommuting, even one day a week
  
• Mass transit
• • UTA schedule
  • Park City
    
  • Logan/Cache Valley
  • St. George 

• Shop near home
• Trip Chaining
• Avoid major routes during peak driving hours
• Don't idle more than 10 seconds
• Postpone errands on high pollution days
• U Car Share
• Carpool/rideshare
• Consider alternative ways to get your kids to school
• • Walking school bus
  • Carpooling
  • Biking
• Compressed work week
• Drive your newest car
• Maintain your vehicle. Check out the Clean Air Vehicle Checklist
• Clear the Air Challenge (reduce car use, Jun-July 2009) has a live website that still allows users to tally emissions saved by driving less and smarter. The organizers are inviting a wintertime New Year's Resolution commitment to reducing miles driven 

 Everyday Actions for Sustainability & Energy Efficiency

• Organize a walking school bus
  

• Combining errands for the week into one, big trip--'trip chaining'--reduces mileage and, thus, pollution.
  

• Whenever possible, walk, bike, use mass transit, carpool or telecommute.
• Check out to My Sustainable Year from Park City Green, which offers different sustainable-living challenge every week.
  
• Utah has undertaken an idle-free awareness campaign:www.idlefree.org
• Purchase green-e certified credits/offsets through the University of Utah's Renewable Energy Campaign
• Enroll in Blue Sky to purchase renewable energy credits
• Check out Rocky Mountain Power's Efficiency Progam and Incentives page