complain for the week...

we had at our last PAC meeting at school a parent that voiced a major copncern for parents who are coming to school and waiting for their kids in their idling vehicles. he thought it was terrible how all the vehicle emissions were so heavy at our school each day.

well after hearing that, i started thinking about it. he was so right. parents come to our school usually 30 minutes before the let out time and wait in their vehicles for their kids. cars running especially in this weather and most of those vehicles are suv's and vans. there are a lot! also, i noticed it in drive thrus. i was in one myself the other day getting a coffee. i try not to use drive thrus because they make us lazy, usually going in is way faster and you tend to eat more often at fast food if you use the drive thru. so i pretend like the drive thru is closed so i don't use it. you think twice if you have to go in. anyways... back to my story. my kids were sleeping in my vehicle so i used the drive thru. i was in line for about 20 minutes. i had 3 cars in front of me and about 5 behind me. most of these cars had just the driver in it. they saw how long the line up was. why didn't they go in. all those vehicles were idling that long in a drive thru and that was only one drive thru in one city. can you imagine?

we are killing our world. it is little things like this. if you just stop doing these kinds of things. you can help the environment.

did you know, just unplugging every item in your home that you are not using is a HUGE help?

now you do!