Creative Carpooling

I have had many a philosophical conversation with friends and colleagues over the years about the solving environmental issues - many of which concluded in the same point - economics and environment are linked. Period.

The following four examples of creative carpooling are living proof of that point as the price of of gasoline continues to go up and up and up.

Check out this news link from CNN - employees of a company in California are paid $500 by their employer for turning their vehicles into moving billboards. This approach may not put more people in an SUV or encourage employees to drive smaller vehicles or take alternate transport, but it certainly helps them financially. Ok, not the best example, but the next three are pretty cool!

Are you travelling a few hundred miles next weekend or just a few miles? Or any other time for that matter? Perhaps someone else is doing the same trip at about the same time by themselves in a vehicle...costly for the driver and the atmosphere. Look no further than http://www.pickuppal.com/ - a cool website that links drivers and passengers. It is a great tool for saving money for the driver and passenger and the enviornment.

I recently talked with a gentleman from a large public employee union and he told me that they now pay a premium per mile/km for members who carpool to meetings and other union related events. What a great idea!

And finally, a buddy of mine recently told me that his wife and three other friends from the neighbourhood go to the grocery store together two to three times a week. This saves six to nine trips to the grocery store every month and gives them an opportunity to catch up.

Times change, energy prices change, businesses change and people change. These creative examples prove that there are many ways to solve a crisis - what solutions do you propose?

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