This website is home to a blog about the Zero Emissions Road Trip.
There is also a section about people I met on the way who are working to make a difference in our society. Click on Trimtabs to read about them.
To learn how to reduce your own energy use, click on How Can I Help? or Downloads & Links.
About the Trip
As a committed environmentalist, I used to regard cars as the root of all evil. Ever expanding highways fragment our landscape. They suck life out of communities, as people drive to big-box stores selling cheap goods made at the other end of the globe.
Most of the wealthiest corporations sell either cars or gas, a concentration of power with immense environmental implications. Cars have disconnected people from their neighbors, and burning gas emits carbon dioxide, which contributes to global climate change.
But cars are more than a way from Point A to Point B. Driving is a distinct pleasure. Intercity buses are more fuel efficient, but riding a bus allows no spontaneity, no discovery. Driving, I am in control of my destiny, and I am free to take the most roundabout way wherever I am headed.
To curb our impact on climate change, zero emissions is the ideal, for buildings, transportation, and every element of our society. Zero emissions doesn't mean that no energy is used and no carbon emitted. If carbon is emitted, some action must be taken to offset that emission. Zero emissions is the net effect.
Cross-country road trips can result in tons of carbon dioxide released. But is it possible to take a road trip with no net emissions, or even negative net emissions? This website documents an attempt at a Zero Emissions Road Trip, or ZERT for short. As I travel around the country, emitting carbon, I must find ways to reduce other energy use, to achieve zero net emissions.
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