Drive Less Challenge Results and Winners
Congratulations to everyone who participated in the Drive Less Challenge this year! In its second year, there were 400 people involved. Participants logged over 29,000 green miles, equivalent to replacing of 17,500 pounds of carbon emissions during the two week challenge period. Everyone who participated – each of us who were thoughtful about we got from place to place, everyone [...]
Drive Less Challenge in the News
Here are news sites, blogs, and organizations that covered the Drive Less Challenge. Peninsula residents logging green miles in Drive Less Challenge – San Jose Mercury News Drive Less Challenge Starts Today – In Menlo Drive Less Challenge: Volunteer group challenges East Palo Alto in reducing carbon emissions – – East Palo Alto dot net PAUSD Families Take the Drive [...]
Drive Less Challenge Awards Celebration, Friday Night 7:30 PM
The Drive Less Challenge Awards Party is coming up this Friday night. The party is at Kepler’s on Friday, May 7 at 7:30 pm. It’s at 1010 El Camino Real in Menlo Park, near the Menlo Park Caltrain station. We’ll be announcing winners, thanking sponsors, and taking the opportunity to share stories of what we’ve learned from the Drive Less [...]
Live or work in Santa Clara County? You can help save Caltrain – key meetingtoday
As Drive Less Challenge participants may know, Caltrain is facing a financial crisis. Service cuts have been proposed that would severely gut the usefulness of Caltrain as a transit service. Last week I attended a meeting with a couple of elected officials and local transit advocates to identify opportunities to prevent these drastic cuts. What I found at the meeting [...]
Drive Less Challenge – more fun with groups!
One of the cool things about the Drive Less Challenge is that you can participate with groups – a school group, co-workers, a neighborhood group, a club. Palo Alto High School, Escondido Elementary School, Hewlett Packard, NASA Ames, Acterra, Old Mountain View Neighborhood, Western Wheelers Bike Club- these are all examples of groups that are participating together in the Drive [...]
