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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