Tag Archives: New Year’s Resolutions

Howard Leaman
• Turn the key, be idle-free.

Merrie Lee
• Try to drive only when I need to, and when I need to.
• Use our Jetta, which runs on biodiesel.
• Tell people about this initiative.

Marie Martin
• I will trip-chain.
• I will take mass transit when possible.
• I will walk to my work meetings instead of driving.
• I will ask people to carpool with me when we are going to the same place.

Liat Gat (Salt Lake City Council Offices)
• I walk to work every day.
• I will consolidate my errands to make as few trips as possible.
• I will try not to leave my car idling, or leave it running to warm up.
• I will also drive the speed limit and drive carefully.
• I will publish this information in the Salt Lake City Council Email Updates.

Carrie Giles (UT Clean Cities)
• I will start planning my work travel days better so that I can take the bus to work and appointments more.
• I will encourage everyone I know to drive less, and try to get friends to carpool more to the ski bus parking lot.

Karl W. Harward
• I will take the bus and TRAX more often and I will walk whenever possible.
• I would like to start a neighborhood awareness campaign and get signatures of people in my neighborhood and issue them something like a sticker or button that declares: “I vote for clean air!”

Holly Hilton (Mayor Becker’s Office)
• I will trip chain (i.e., combine multiple errands in the same general direction into one trip).
• I will turn the key, be idle-free.
• I will warm up my car by driving it, not by letting it sit running in the driveway.
• I will turn off my car when waiting at the coffee drive-through.
• I will drive the speed limit.
• I will service my vehicle regularly.

Christine Hodge
• Ride the UTA bus
• Make a list of places i need to go and only make ONE trip there and ONE trip back, instead of going out on different days
• Share a ride.
• Pass on information about this campaign to my friends outside the office.

Michelle Hofmann (Moms for Clean Air)
• I will trip chain and avoid idling my vehicle every day.
• On yellow and red air days I will:
o postpone nonessential vehicle trips,
o telecommute/teleconference if possible, and
o walk or bike to the neighborhood grocery store.
• I will continue to alert friends and family when air quality is deteriorating and give them tips on things they can do to improve air quality and protect their health.

Ashley Edgette
• Ride my bike once a week!
• Educate others about the harms of idling and the benefits of carpooling.

Kathy Elton, Mediator (Kathy Elton Consulting)
• By choosing to live less than a mile from my office, I can walk to work on green, yellow and red alert days this winter.

Matt Ferguson
• Ride my bike (or walk) and take TRAX to/from work.
• Set a good example

Jim & Cheryl Fillman
• Find out what the Utah Legislature is doing / or not doing about cleaner air now, and let them and all of my associates know how important it is to DO something now.
• Shovel, don’t blow my snow.
• Let the U.S. Congress know I strongly support the Natural Gas bill now in process.

Rich Hendron
• I will trip-chain as much as possible.
• I also do not use drive-up windows.
• I will tell people not to go to drive through windows when the air is bad quality.

Kevin S. Millett
• I will use my bicycle for my primary means of transportation.
• When I drive my vehicle during cold months I will not start it to warm it up in advance.
• I will use Facebook to raise awareness of SLC’s pollution problems and solutions that are available.

Scott Anderson, President and CEO, Zions Bank
• Take public transportation to meetings whenever possible rather than driving, and schedule meeting locations close to public transportation.
• When driving, carpool whenever possible to reduce the number of cars on the road.
• Walk more often and to more places.
• Turn off my engine when waiting in drive-up lanes or for people. Never warm up the car before driving.
• Encourage employees to take public transportation and provide discounts on public transportation passes.