By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
You know those smoggy, hazy days when you look toward downtown to find the skyscrapers obscured behind a ripply, gray veil? What horrible pollution, you think. And it may be.
But watch out, those other days when the skyscrapers blaze brightly under clear blue skies may be deceptively hazardous to your health as well, or maybe more so.
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Denver revs up a program to slow down wasteful driving habits
By Laura Elizabeth May
Green Right Now
Denver drivers have seen the light. It’s on the driving dashboard that shows them their CO2 emissions.
As part of a pilot program called Driving Change, city-employed and selected citizen drivers were given feedback from their dashboards about their driving habits, which in turn, told them about their carbon emissions.
What they learned was that how they drove really did make a difference.
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Tags: · carbon dioxide emissions, Denver, Driving Change, gas mileage