Some may find it easier to participate in the 15th Annual Commuter Challenge than others, depending on the distance from home to the workspace.
The challenge, sponsored by GO MAINE, is a program of the Maine Department of Transportation and the Maine Turnpike Authority. It encourages people to find alternative modes of transportation to work for a week. For example, why not walk to work if the office is nearby? Or how about biking to work?
The BAT bus system can help with a web of routes that covers Bangor, Brewer, Old Town, and Orono. True, riding the BAT can be...interesting at times, but it’s relatively harmless, especially at 7 am in the morning.
However, walking, biking, or taking a bus might be difficult for employees that live far away from their jobs. Enter carpooling. Hopefully, your neighbor is friendly enough to want to share a ride into work, and has a job in the same general area. And, if the ride is on the lengthy side, pop in a good CD and catch up on the latest events or movies.
It might be fun to be creative during commuter week too. This Thursday is Try Anything Day. Try taking a different route to work. Do something different. Get your morning cup of coffee from somewhere new.
Either way, whether it’s carpooling or biking to work, the environment will suffer less pollution, and everyone who participates in the commuter challenge will have a smaller carbon footprint. An individual carbon footprint is determined by various factors, like household size, car, travel time, heating costs, etc.
Curious? Calculate your own carbon footprint here:
http://www.nature.org/initiatives/climatechange/calculator/
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