{"id":312,"date":"2010-08-05T22:41:41","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T04:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openairlife.com\/blog\/?p=312"},"modified":"2010-08-05T22:41:41","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T04:41:41","slug":"the-clear-the-air-challenge-what-i-learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openairlife.com\/blog\/the-clear-the-air-challenge-what-i-learned\/","title":{"rendered":"The Clear the Air Challenge &#8211; What I Learned!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has taken me a few day to write this post. I was planning on writing it the evening of the 31st but I was getting ready for the Outdoor Retailer Show which is going on this week. My final results might not have been as impressive as others but here they are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trips saved \u2013 106<\/li>\n<li>Miles Saved \u2013 589<\/li>\n<li>Emissions Reduced \u2013 989 lbs.<\/li>\n<li>Energy Saved \u2013 27 Gal.<\/li>\n<li>Money Saved \u2013 $331<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I was surprised at how easy this was to achieve. As I said on Day 1, I love my car. But by changing a few things I was able to get to work and back without using a car. I was hoping to go the whole month without ever driving to work in my car. I fell short of that goal on day 31. I was sick all night and should have just stayed home from work, but went anyway. I wasn&#8217;t able to wake up early enough or have the energy to bike to work. So I drove. But I have made up for it now.<\/p>\n<p>I thought when I started this challenge that I would do it for a month and then get back in my car and drive to work. I was surprised at how much I really started to enjoy the time it takes to commute. It is nice to be able to ride the bike and get some excerise. Also if I choose not to ride the bike, I have time to get on the computer and get some work done that I wouldn&#8217;t have an opportunity to do.<\/p>\n<p>I have come to realize that by having a bus\/trax monthly pass actually give me a little more flexibility. I would have said the complete opposite before I started this challenge. The past couple of days, I have been gong to the Salt Palace for the Outdoor Retailer Show and I have commuted everyday there. Usually I drive and have to find a place to park then pay for it. Now I hop on the bus and trax and I am dropped off a few feet away from the show. I am not saying that commuting is always more convenient, but it does provide more options.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the challenge is over, I am planning on registering my car sometime this month. I will start to driving occasionally to work I&#8217;m sure. But this challenge has really changed the way that I am going to be getting around town. It has shown me that will a little planning and determination, it is not that hard to reduce my emissions.<\/p>\n<p>If you weren&#8217;t able to or just didn&#8217;t get around to trying this challenge. I would like to challenge you to try it this month. Not for the whole month, but for a few days. I think that you will find out that it isn&#8217;t all that bad and the extra time spent can be used for different activities that you would be doing at home anyway. I would love to hear about others successes or stories about the challenge. Please comment and let others know how it went.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has taken me a few day to write this post. I was planning on writing it the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[99,94,89,92,118,90],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bicycle","tag-bike","tag-bus","tag-commute","tag-commuting","tag-trax"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openairlife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openairlife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openairlife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openairlife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openairlife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.openairlife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313,"href":"https:\/\/www.openairlife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openairlife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openairlife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openairlife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}