Climate Action TeamTraining Series

Session #3:Transportation

Julio Magalhães, PhDGlobal Warming Program Coordinator

Loma Prieta Chapter, Sierra Club

Overview of Today’s Session

1. Observation Worksheets: “Seeing your impact”

2. Basic Information: “Cars & driving impacts”

3. Activities: “Seeing your car’s impact & opportunities to save”

4. Personal Goal Setting

5. Conclusion / Action Items

6. Questions

Observation Worksheets:

“Seeing Your Impact”

Review Your Electricity Goal & Experience

Observation Worksheet: Seeing Your Individual

Savings!

Find your individual totals from this past week

Seeing Your Group’s Impact !

Observation Worksheet:Team Totals For Session #3

Find your individual totals from this past week

Report on your group totals from this past week

230 1-liter balloons (volume)

Group Totals:Balloons Saved ?

How many did your team save between Session #2 & #3 (this past week) ?

Basic Information

Human Energy Behaviors: Using Gasoline

What percentage of the gasoline’s energy actually goes into moving the car?

CO2

How many balloons per mile?

13 %

230 !

“Smart Driving”

Air drag

Engine friction

Best mileage

Savings:

35 balloons / mile

Equivalent to paying $0.38 less for a gallon of gas !

Activity #1:Getting to Know Your

Car’s Impact

The Impact of Your Driving

1. Estimate your daily gasoline consumption

2 options: # gallons purchased / # of days

OR # miles / # of days / m.p.g.

2. Calculate daily CO2 emissions:

= daily gallons x 4600 balloons

3. Calculate daily cost of gasoline:

= daily gallons x cost per gal.

Activity #2:Finding “Trip-Linking”

Opportunities

Weekly Errands Worksheet

2. Mark on the chart when you do these errands3. Shade in those errands you already combine into one trip

1. Review when and where you run errands by car.

4. Circle and link with line those opportunities for trip-linking

Personal Goal Setting

Transportation Behaviors:Examples On Worksheet

How many of you have made these “default” low-energy transportation behaviors part of your lives?

More choices for low-energy behaviors…

Climate Protection Action Menu: Transportation

Climate Protection Action Menu: Transportation

(cont.)

Thoughts on Earlier Goal & Set a Specific New Goal

Conclusion

Training Series Schedule

Action Items for Session 4

1. Finalize and work toward your personal transportation goal

2. Monitor & record your “Observation Worksheet” practices during the week

3. Compute your individual & team totals before class (balloons & dollars saved)

4. Plot your cumulative savings on “My Total Savings Worksheet”

5. Continue to practice your low-electricity goal!

Questions?

The End