| ="body"> | | | | bike if you can, but to consider replacing your car |
| No matter how "green" some industries like the | | | | with a bicycle all together. Just remember to |
| automobile industry, still promote technology that | | | | make sure you protect your investment and |
| does more harm than good and little to protect | | | | prevent bicycle theft when you can while you are |
| the environment The answer to how we can use | | | | protecting the environment, too. |
| technology to protect the environment is hard to | | | | Best Cities in the US for Living without a Car We'll |
| find when you're looking in the wrong place. Of | | | | give you a hint, one of top cities for carless living |
| the countless tech-laden ways to curb the degree | | | | starts with a "new" and ends with a "york." Living |
| to which we are littering the environment with | | | | in a large metropolitan area like New York will |
| things like car exhaust, one solution might be | | | | make it much easier to maintain a mobile lifestyle |
| closer and greener than you think. And it's about | | | | without a car. Access to mass transportation is a |
| as low-tech as it gets. Instead of thinking about | | | | key feature in making this possible. According to |
| technology advancements to protect the | | | | WalkScore, a group that promotes walkable |
| environment like hybrid green cars, we might | | | | neighborhoods, while 83% percent of Americans |
| want to think about using less technology! Those | | | | live in metropolitan areas, only 5 percent live |
| things at the end of your legs? | | | | within walking distance of decent public transit. |
| They might just one of the most efficient, | | | | Committing to living without a car is definitely one |
| cheapest ways to sustainable living. Along with the | | | | way to go about using new technology in public |
| obvious - walking - your feet can push on a pair | | | | transportation to stop littering the environment. |
| of pedals and get you around town on your | | | | Options regarding commuter railroads, public bus |
| bicycle with greater ease and benefit than fighting | | | | routes, subways, and streetcars or trolleys can |
| traffic. The citizenry of Planet Earth is now being | | | | make or break an individual's decision to live car |
| forced to look at our home as a two-way | | | | free. |
| exchange - we give to and take from Mother | | | | America's Most Walkable Cities There are a |
| Nature - rather than treating our natural resources | | | | surprising number of cities in the U.S. considered |
| as a never-ending supply to power our progress. | | | | to be quite walkable. We might all think of New |
| And technology, while it may help to reduce how | | | | York, Boston and Washington off the top of our |
| much we take from nature, will never be as | | | | heads. But did you know that large parts of |
| successful as shedding some of our most | | | | Denver are walkable? WalkScore has a website |
| detrimental human habits. So, as the planet | | | | completely dedicated to finding and promoting |
| celebrates another Earth Day, let's touch on some | | | | "Walkable Places to Live". They ranks 2,508 |
| facts and information that changes the focus | | | | neighborhoods in the largest 40 U.S. cities to help |
| from "how technology can help save the | | | | you find a walkable place to live. On top of that, |
| environment" to "how we can use what we have | | | | they have a list of 138 "Walker's Paradises." |
| to get where we should be?" | | | | Twenty-two cities have at least one and |
| Benefits of Riding a Bike and the Looming | | | | therefore fall under our list of America's Most |
| Average Cost of a Car The days of ignoring the | | | | Walkable Cities. New York leads the pack with 38, |
| many benefits of riding a bicycle are over. With | | | | including Tribeca, Little Italy, Soho, Chinatown, |
| the extremely high average annual cost of owning | | | | Midtown and Murray Hill. |
| a car, it makes sense not only to commute by | | | | |