Clear The Air Challenge

Abbie Vianes
combine errands even more tightly or not go.
walk to church every Sunday and for other meetings when possible.
talk about idling.

Richard Valentine (Salt Lake Valley Health)
• Plan and Work to Implement at 20% per Year to 2020.
• More serious consideration of alternative transportation on “Red Days”.
• Have fun … But not too much fun.
• Encourage others (personally and professionally) to understand that the same Behavior Change (of reduced driving) will result in benefits in four areas:
o Personal Finance — Save money.
o Improve Public Health in Salt Lake Valley — Many individuals are suffering from high levels of air pollution related to motor vehicle use.
o Improve Political and Economic stability — Fossil fuels are a finite resource, as supplies run out and become more expensive social organizations will be stressed.
o Improve Global Air Quality — Burning fossil fuels is likely to very disruptive to humanity.
• Encourage others to maintain a positive attitude.(Have Fun… But not too much Fun)

Kathy Van Dame (Wasatch Clean Air Coalition)
• I will follow air quality predictions and have available alternate plans for transportation when I need to travel during ‘Air Action’ and ‘Unhealthy’ days.
• I will discuss my choices with others when appropriate.

Michele Straube (Salt Lake Solutions)
• Every day
o Leave the car at home one day a week, especially on days the inversion is coming into the valley.
o Be idle-free.
o Teleconference more, drive to meetings less.
o Trip chain
• On yellow and red alert days
o Avoid running errands and extra car trips

Sandy Underwood
• My son and I will walk to school everyday
• We will take TRAX or the bus when possible.
• Let’s keep our kids’ health and let them have clean air to breathe

Bianca Shreeve (Mayor Becker’s Office)
• Carpool
• Work from home, on days when I can get away with it
• I will continue to not idle!
• Combine trips and run errands all at once
• Use city CNG vehicle for all city business that requires travel
• Use “peer pressure” to convince people not to idle
• Talk to my friends and family about the importance of reducing vehicle emissions

Debbie Sigman
• I resolve to offer/ask for carpools with friends and neighbors.
• I will offer to pick up groceries if it saves someone a trip.
• I will email my neighborhood list about this campaign.

LeeAnn Spencer
• Drive less and take advantage of public transportation
• Have my friends and family take it with me

Sharon Rishe
• I will bundle all my errands, in perfect geographic order, on my two work days, so that the car gets out of the garage only two days a week and not a mile is wasted.
• In spring, I will ride my bike on many errands again.

Mabel R. Romo
• I will commit to using the county van for all business appointments.
• On a personal level, I commit to do my grocery shopping on my route home.
• I will ask others to carpool with me when I have county events to attend.
• On a personal level, I will try to schedule all traveling chores to stores, etc in one car trip.

Becka Roolf (SLC Bike Coordinator)
• Ride my bike to work unless it is a Red Air Day.
• Ride the bus to work when it is a Red Air Day.
• Try to find some cross-country ski buddies, so I can carpool.
• Encourage other City employees to bike to work even in the winter.
• Host a lunch-time workshop for other City employees on winter biking to work.
• Try to get TUNA to create a carpool ride-share board.
• Look into creating a Winter Bike to Work Day (probably for January 2011).
• Look into how N95 respirator masks work for biking to work.

Jen Pettus
• I will do walk-in rather than drive-ups (banks, drive-up windows). Seeing the drive-up window line 30 cars deep at the new In-n-Out burger in Sandy, all idling on a red air day, was enough to make me easily make this pledge to myself. Spent the summer in a small CA town where they got rid of all drive-up windows (yes, even McDonalds). What a great idea and even a greater idea to shut down these windows in the valley on red air days!
• I will spread the word!

Kathy Pope
• Use the UTA ski busses to get up to Alta, and catch them close to home rather than close to the mouth of the canyon.
• Ride the bus to work more often.
• Look for opportunities to car pool, such as getting from work to class 2 days a week.
• My partner Greg shares the car and insists on taking me to work and picking me up, rather than have me catch a bus with one transfer. I need to convince him he doesn’t have to do this, and that he can ride the Trax to get to his gym, versus driving up and down 400 South.

Angelo Papastamos (UDOT)
• I will TravelWise more than in 2009
o By teleworking as much as possible.
o By taking TRAX downtown as much as possible.
o By carpooling to kids soccer, basketball, gymnastics, etc.
o By combining trips always.
• I will strongly encourage and promote carpooling with indoor soccer, basketball, and gymnastic parents.
• I will do my job, with focus on educating and promoting this message; Everyone has a role and responsibility in “clearing our air”.

Alexandra Parvas
• Although I don’t have a car and usually take either public transit or bike for most of my transportation needs, I will commit myself to ride my bike and take transit more often than I normally do.
• I also, weather permitting, propose to reduce my dependence overall on fossil-fuel powered vehicles.
• Spread the word, make a party out of it, and provide incentives like cake. I already have a keen posse of bike friends, I would like to meet more of them and create a keen union

Bruce Miller
• Car pool with my wife who works at the Government Center
• Reduce number of lunches at driving-distant restaurants
• Do not idle my car for more than 30 seconds
• Push my ‘Green IT’ agenda to reduce computer-generated power consumption and e-waste

Nancy Mitchell
• I will combine trips and try to take the bus occasionally. I am always on such a tight time schedule it is hard to get ready early enough to take it. I will have to try! I do love riding the bus.
• Tell friends and family to stop idling.
• I have already combined two meetings of an organization of which I am president, so we only have two meetings a month and not three!

Anthony Najera
• I will car pool 3 times a week or take TRAX as much as possible.
• I will promote car pooling or TRAX among my friends and family.

Ben J. Mates
• I will look into converting our 1991 Mazda 626 to be an electric vehicle.
• I will work from home whenever possible.
• I will write the first draft of a book on reducing our impact on the natural environment by 80% by maximizing biological processes, minimizing use of technology, creating durable technology with recyclable components, including a chapter on planning walkable, bikeable communities and another on transportation efficiencies.
• I will join with others in causing the conversation for an 80% reduction in the burning of fossil fuels by year 2020 to be generated, continue to deepen and become grounded in reality.

Erin Mendenhall
• I will reschedule all reschedule-able appointments on red air quality days and do better at trip-chaining.
• I will let those whom I cancel appointments with know why I’m canceling and that each trip makes a difference.

Michelle Middleton
• Carpool with other parents
• Not leave car idling when waiting to pick up my kids
• Not warming up my car before driving
• Trying not to drive much on bad air days
• Combining tasks and errands into one trip, instead of multiple car trips
• Keep car maintained
• Continue to drive smoothly and smartly, with no quick stops & starts.
• Pass the word on to friends and family.