Today’s Tip from The Green Year: 365 Small Things You Can Do to Make a Big Difference: Turn off your car while you while you wait.
“When you’re picking up the kids at summer camp, turn off your car. For every minute your car idles, it emits almost 7 grams of pollutants like nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
You can also save gas by reducing excessive idling: for every 10 minutes you let your vehicle idle, you use approximately 25 gallons of gas per year. If 10% of the U.S. avoided idling for 5 minutes per day, we could lessen CO2 emissions by 1 million tons and save more than 422,000 gallons of gas every year.
See all of the other tips in our Go Green series.