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Divorce Your Car! : Ending the Love Affair with the Automobile
Alvord's perceptive gloss of the late, great, 20th century's pitiful auto intoxication is a fascinating read and a stunning contradiction of the fatuity that technology is neutral. Her gathering of stories illuminates the existence of a vital planet-wide, counter-car-culture. Witty, substantial and penetrating, Divorce Your Car! is a mighty persuasive job of work.?Stephanie Mills, from the Foreword
Our romance with cars, begun with enthusiasm more than 100 years ago, has in fact become a very troubled entanglement. Today's relationship with the automobile inflicts upon us pollution, noise, congestion, sprawl, big expenses, injury, and even death. Yet we continue to live with cars at a growing cost to ourselves and the environment.
What can people do about this souring affair? Divorce your car! Re-meet your feet, board a bike, take a train, pull out of this dysfunctional relationship with the automobile! Divorcing your car can take many forms, from simply using it less to not owning one at all. This practical guide shows how divorcing a car can be fun, healthy, money-saving, and helpful to the planet in the process.
Most other transportation reform books emphasize long-range political and economic policy. Divorce Your Car! speaks less about policy and more about realistic actions that individuals can take now to reduce their car-dependence. It encourages readers to change their own driving behavior without waiting for broader social change, stressing that individual action can drive social change.
Car-dependency is a serious problem, but Divorce Your Car! is leavened with love-affair and self-help analogies in the text as well as cartoon illustrations. From commuters crazed by congestion and soccer moms sick of chauffeuring, to environmentalists looking for auto alternatives? Divorce Your Car! provides all the reasons not to drive and the many alternative ways we can all get around without our cars.
Table of Contents
Introduction
PART 1: LOVE'S BEEN HOW WE ENDED UP MARRIED TO CARS
1: Falling Head Over The Advent of Cars
2: Other Suitors Drop by the The Decline of Non-Car Transport
3: The Possessive Auto Takes Over the Lands
Our romance with cars, begun with enthusiasm more than 100 years ago, has in fact become a very troubled entanglement. Today's relationship with the automobile inflicts upon us pollution, noise, congestion, sprawl, big expenses, injury, and even death. Yet we continue to live with cars at a growing cost to ourselves and the environment.
What can people do about this souring affair? Divorce your car! Re-meet your feet, board a bike, take a train, pull out of this dysfunctional relationship with the automobile! Divorcing your car can take many forms, from simply using it less to not owning one at all. This practical guide shows how divorcing a car can be fun, healthy, money-saving, and helpful to the planet in the process.
Most other transportation reform books emphasize long-range political and economic policy. Divorce Your Car! speaks less about policy and more about realistic actions that individuals can take now to reduce their car-dependence. It encourages readers to change their own driving behavior without waiting for broader social change, stressing that individual action can drive social change.
Car-dependency is a serious problem, but Divorce Your Car! is leavened with love-affair and self-help analogies in the text as well as cartoon illustrations. From commuters crazed by congestion and soccer moms sick of chauffeuring, to environmentalists looking for auto alternatives? Divorce Your Car! provides all the reasons not to drive and the many alternative ways we can all get around without our cars.
Table of Contents
Introduction
PART 1: LOVE'S BEEN HOW WE ENDED UP MARRIED TO CARS
1: Falling Head Over The Advent of Cars
2: Other Suitors Drop by the The Decline of Non-Car Transport
3: The Possessive Auto Takes Over the Lands
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April 25, 2017
At first I thought that this book would be a how-to guide, full of tips and tricks for going car-free. This prediction was partially correct: it contains lots of advice for car-free or car-lite living. Upon finishing it, however, I came to feel that the title is actually an imperative--"You. Divorce your car. Right now." That imperative runs deep through the book and is its most important message.
Divorce Your Car! is divided into three sections. Section 1 is a fascinating history of how the car, despite strong initial resistance from almost everybody except automotive manufacturers, wormed its way into our culture and our cities. Section 3 is probably what most readers are expecting when they pick up the book: advice on how to reduce one's reliance upon cars, tips for influencing change in the community, and so on. It's all good stuff, and I suspect that I would have found it more illuminating if I didn't already lead a car-lite lifestyle. The book shows its age a little bit here: technological advances like Google Maps or ride-sharing apps are boons to car-lite living that are missing from the book due to its publication date. Nevertheless, Alvord's tips are solid, especially for somebody just venturing out from the automotive bubble.
All that being said, it's the second section of the book that conveys the imperative described above. Alvord meticulously picks apart all of the ways that personal automobiles make the human condition worse. Almost everybody knows about climate change, but the damage inflicted by driving goes far beyond that. The author describes in (sometimes gruesome, sometimes dry) detail how driving cars:
-Exacerbates asthma in cities
-Does harm to wildlife big and small
-Inflicts noise pollution that causes stress, high blood pressure, heart disease, etc.
-Enables authoritarian regimes
-Drains our personal monetary and time budgets
-Holds back the poor from advancing
-Threatens our national parks and wilderness areas
-Destroys historic architecture and artwork
-Faciliates the spread of contagious disease
-Worsens erosion
-Taxes our mental capacity and actually makes us dumber
-Isolates us from our neighbors
-Stresses our government budgets
-Wastes land and worsens housing problems
-Directly kills more people than almost anything else through crashes
-Makes just about every bad aspect of the human condition worse
My love affair with the car ended a good while ago, but this section of the book forced me to confront the stark fact that car culture is a culture of violence, and every time one chooses to get behind the wheel when another option exists, one chooses to participate in the cycle of harm to some degree.
Now, I recognize that we've built our present-day environment in such a way that it's truly difficult for many people to give up their cars entirely. Alvord recognizes this too, but she makes a strong argument that we all need to do the best that we can. We can redefine our idea of distances that are considered walkable. We can take transit when it's an option and realize increased travel time is worth the benefit of not driving. We can bike when we can, we can carpool when we can, we can take Amtrak when we can. We can even move if we are able. It may not be realistic for many people to go car-free, but Alvord makes the case that most of us can do better and provides guidance toward that end. After reading this book, I feel it's a moral obligation that we do so.
(Note: This book is out of print, but I highly recommend hunting down a used copy. We need an updated second edition!)
Divorce Your Car! is divided into three sections. Section 1 is a fascinating history of how the car, despite strong initial resistance from almost everybody except automotive manufacturers, wormed its way into our culture and our cities. Section 3 is probably what most readers are expecting when they pick up the book: advice on how to reduce one's reliance upon cars, tips for influencing change in the community, and so on. It's all good stuff, and I suspect that I would have found it more illuminating if I didn't already lead a car-lite lifestyle. The book shows its age a little bit here: technological advances like Google Maps or ride-sharing apps are boons to car-lite living that are missing from the book due to its publication date. Nevertheless, Alvord's tips are solid, especially for somebody just venturing out from the automotive bubble.
All that being said, it's the second section of the book that conveys the imperative described above. Alvord meticulously picks apart all of the ways that personal automobiles make the human condition worse. Almost everybody knows about climate change, but the damage inflicted by driving goes far beyond that. The author describes in (sometimes gruesome, sometimes dry) detail how driving cars:
-Exacerbates asthma in cities
-Does harm to wildlife big and small
-Inflicts noise pollution that causes stress, high blood pressure, heart disease, etc.
-Enables authoritarian regimes
-Drains our personal monetary and time budgets
-Holds back the poor from advancing
-Threatens our national parks and wilderness areas
-Destroys historic architecture and artwork
-Faciliates the spread of contagious disease
-Worsens erosion
-Taxes our mental capacity and actually makes us dumber
-Isolates us from our neighbors
-Stresses our government budgets
-Wastes land and worsens housing problems
-Directly kills more people than almost anything else through crashes
-Makes just about every bad aspect of the human condition worse
My love affair with the car ended a good while ago, but this section of the book forced me to confront the stark fact that car culture is a culture of violence, and every time one chooses to get behind the wheel when another option exists, one chooses to participate in the cycle of harm to some degree.
Now, I recognize that we've built our present-day environment in such a way that it's truly difficult for many people to give up their cars entirely. Alvord recognizes this too, but she makes a strong argument that we all need to do the best that we can. We can redefine our idea of distances that are considered walkable. We can take transit when it's an option and realize increased travel time is worth the benefit of not driving. We can bike when we can, we can carpool when we can, we can take Amtrak when we can. We can even move if we are able. It may not be realistic for many people to go car-free, but Alvord makes the case that most of us can do better and provides guidance toward that end. After reading this book, I feel it's a moral obligation that we do so.
(Note: This book is out of print, but I highly recommend hunting down a used copy. We need an updated second edition!)
January 19, 2021
3.75 stars.
Alvord details a fascinating history of the car and how modern societies have accommodated them at the expense of other transport options and the health and wellbeing of citizens.
The author then shares options to reduce or eliminate dependence on the car, including walking, biking, car-sharing, public transport, etc.
Overall, a great book, though there was a bit too much number-data for me, and toward the end it started to feel a bit long-winded and repetitive.
Note: I was discouraged to read the constant comparison to marital divorce. The author is divorced herself and clearly views it as a good thing. I'm morally opposed to divorce, so those bits made me cringe. Getting rid of a car is not at all similar to divorcing a spouse, and the analogy served to cheapen the very serious severing of human relationships.
Alvord details a fascinating history of the car and how modern societies have accommodated them at the expense of other transport options and the health and wellbeing of citizens.
The author then shares options to reduce or eliminate dependence on the car, including walking, biking, car-sharing, public transport, etc.
Overall, a great book, though there was a bit too much number-data for me, and toward the end it started to feel a bit long-winded and repetitive.
Note: I was discouraged to read the constant comparison to marital divorce. The author is divorced herself and clearly views it as a good thing. I'm morally opposed to divorce, so those bits made me cringe. Getting rid of a car is not at all similar to divorcing a spouse, and the analogy served to cheapen the very serious severing of human relationships.
December 14, 2008
I learned a lot from this book concerning our dependence on automobiles and the issues that are raised by their frequent usage. Whether it's the environment, social issues caused by the nature of a car, or the money it costs all of us outside of purchasing cars this book covers it all. I decided to live in NY partly because I didn't want to own a car and I'm happy with my choice... this was encouraged by the book.
Interested persons should also watch who killed the electric car for some supplementary info on the car industry/ oil industry connection.
Interested persons should also watch who killed the electric car for some supplementary info on the car industry/ oil industry connection.
December 20, 2011
If you can find a copy, get this book. Published in 2000, copies are becoming limited, yet the book has never been more relevant than today (Note to publishers: second printing, please!). Approaching this book as someone who is very concerned about the mess we are making of our environment, yet blushingly guilty of making a horrid daily commute in my car from one city to another, I was fascinated with the story Katie Alvord related.
That Americans are deep in a love affair with the automobile is not news to me. Reading Alvord’s very readable and well researched background on how that auto affair began (we tend to think of cars as coming out of Detroit, yet they were actually invented and first driven in Europe), how it was consummated, how it is sustained and encouraged, and how it is leading us (quite purposefully by those who have something monetary to gain) into increasingly dire straits, held my attention to the very end.
Alvord, after all, doesn’t just appropriately horrify us with the damage done and being done. She also offers ways to extricate ourselves, divorce ourselves, if you will, from this toxic relationship. One after another, she takes apart every argument and point of resistance. A resident of Houghton, Michigan, in the state’s Upper Peninsula, she walks the talk and shares how that’s working out for her. It’s inspiring. Freedom really can be delightful …
In sections entitled “Love’s Been Blind: How We Ended Up Married to Cars,” “Grounds for Divorce: Why Our Automotive Marriage is on the Rocks,” and “How to Divorce Your Car: Let Me Count the Ways …,” Alvord discusses the proliferation of roads and suburbs, the role of marketing and advertising (ever notice how much of automobile marketing is about seduction and romance?), oil spills and other damage done to our environment, the real cost of cars (eye opening), the toll of car crashes and road rage, and finally moves into alternative lifestyles—walking, biking, public transportation, ride sharing, telecommunications, alternative fuels (not as grand as you might think), and breaking free of auto dominance.
If you think this might make for dry reading, I promise you it is anything but. If at first glance, I thought yikes, lot of graphs and charts! sidebars and lists! glossaries and notes! then at second glance, I was so fascinated by the story that I found myself carrying the book along as I walked, generally running into walls and forgetting to eat. Second glance took me through to the end, emerging with a newfound resolution to become “car lite” if not eventually free of those tires beneath me.
“If enough environmentally concerned North Americans responded to the finding that car driving is their most environmentally harmful activity and decided to divorce their cars, going either car-lite or car-free, we might move a long way toward ... a shift like this could make the world look quite different in 20 or 30 years. It could give us a world of compact, convivial communities, with distinct boundaries, surrounded by green space, connected more often by rail. It could contribute to a more relaxed pace of life, clean the air and water, and restore a blessed quietude that has otherwise all but disappeared behind engine noise. We would be healthier, walking and cycling down streets in the shade of trees planted where asphalt used to be. Children and the elderly would feel safer on the streets and have more independence without having to rely on others to drive them places. We’d have billions of dollars worth of infrastructure that could be reallocated to other uses … we would save money, and we would save lives.” (Pg. 241)
Freelance writer Katie Alvord is best known as the author of Divorce Your Car! Ending the Love Affair with the Automobile. Her non-fiction work has appeared in numerous publications, including the Boston Globe, E Magazine, Orion Afield, The Progressive, Utne Reader, and more. She also writes fiction and poetry. A former librarian, she has worked with non-profit groups and served on local environmental and bicycle advisory committees. In 1993, she was recognized as a San Francisco Bay Area Clean Air Champion for "making a difference" by going car-free and writing about the experience. More recently, her series on climate change in the Lake Superior basin won the 2007 Science Journalism Award for Online Reporting from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She has lectured frequently on environmental topics in the U.S. and Canada. Born and raised in northern California, she now lives in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
See my author interview with Katie in the Fall/Winter 2011-2012 Issue of The Smoking Poet.
That Americans are deep in a love affair with the automobile is not news to me. Reading Alvord’s very readable and well researched background on how that auto affair began (we tend to think of cars as coming out of Detroit, yet they were actually invented and first driven in Europe), how it was consummated, how it is sustained and encouraged, and how it is leading us (quite purposefully by those who have something monetary to gain) into increasingly dire straits, held my attention to the very end.
Alvord, after all, doesn’t just appropriately horrify us with the damage done and being done. She also offers ways to extricate ourselves, divorce ourselves, if you will, from this toxic relationship. One after another, she takes apart every argument and point of resistance. A resident of Houghton, Michigan, in the state’s Upper Peninsula, she walks the talk and shares how that’s working out for her. It’s inspiring. Freedom really can be delightful …
In sections entitled “Love’s Been Blind: How We Ended Up Married to Cars,” “Grounds for Divorce: Why Our Automotive Marriage is on the Rocks,” and “How to Divorce Your Car: Let Me Count the Ways …,” Alvord discusses the proliferation of roads and suburbs, the role of marketing and advertising (ever notice how much of automobile marketing is about seduction and romance?), oil spills and other damage done to our environment, the real cost of cars (eye opening), the toll of car crashes and road rage, and finally moves into alternative lifestyles—walking, biking, public transportation, ride sharing, telecommunications, alternative fuels (not as grand as you might think), and breaking free of auto dominance.
If you think this might make for dry reading, I promise you it is anything but. If at first glance, I thought yikes, lot of graphs and charts! sidebars and lists! glossaries and notes! then at second glance, I was so fascinated by the story that I found myself carrying the book along as I walked, generally running into walls and forgetting to eat. Second glance took me through to the end, emerging with a newfound resolution to become “car lite” if not eventually free of those tires beneath me.
“If enough environmentally concerned North Americans responded to the finding that car driving is their most environmentally harmful activity and decided to divorce their cars, going either car-lite or car-free, we might move a long way toward ... a shift like this could make the world look quite different in 20 or 30 years. It could give us a world of compact, convivial communities, with distinct boundaries, surrounded by green space, connected more often by rail. It could contribute to a more relaxed pace of life, clean the air and water, and restore a blessed quietude that has otherwise all but disappeared behind engine noise. We would be healthier, walking and cycling down streets in the shade of trees planted where asphalt used to be. Children and the elderly would feel safer on the streets and have more independence without having to rely on others to drive them places. We’d have billions of dollars worth of infrastructure that could be reallocated to other uses … we would save money, and we would save lives.” (Pg. 241)
Freelance writer Katie Alvord is best known as the author of Divorce Your Car! Ending the Love Affair with the Automobile. Her non-fiction work has appeared in numerous publications, including the Boston Globe, E Magazine, Orion Afield, The Progressive, Utne Reader, and more. She also writes fiction and poetry. A former librarian, she has worked with non-profit groups and served on local environmental and bicycle advisory committees. In 1993, she was recognized as a San Francisco Bay Area Clean Air Champion for "making a difference" by going car-free and writing about the experience. More recently, her series on climate change in the Lake Superior basin won the 2007 Science Journalism Award for Online Reporting from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She has lectured frequently on environmental topics in the U.S. and Canada. Born and raised in northern California, she now lives in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
See my author interview with Katie in the Fall/Winter 2011-2012 Issue of The Smoking Poet.
January 14, 2013
Pg 11: The very first American killed by a car was H.H. Bliss in 1899. Talk about family connections. Henry Hale Bliss was a relative of both Dean Petersen and Jean Daley, about 6th cousins, 3 times removed. I found him in one of our family history books. He was hit getting off a bus in NY City and was hit by a Taxi passing on the right. The courts ruled it an accident which must have set a presadent for auto deaths since. Think of the lives that could have been saved if better laws could have been put in place from the beginning.
Pg. 153 another Bliss, George makes bikes of unusaul types in NY City.
Pg 228: The circle game; this is good, to find services within walking, biking or bus distance. A copy should be distributed to everyone within 2 miles of your Church or business.
Pg. 69 Ethiopia has a high 191.6 death per 10,000 vehicles compared to 1.9 in Japan. The VC Boccia's and DT Wade's can testify to that.
Pg 126 Hippocrates said "Walking is man's best medicine."
Pg 129: Walking can be good for the local economy.
Pg. 146: 1 mile of interstate road cost $100 million. How many miles of trails would that build?
Pg 148: Free bike for the community; put in adeposit and get it back when you bring the bike back.
Pg 155: Bike solar charging stations combinded with bike locker. One at home and one at work or school and you would be fixed up.
Pg 172 The car club sounds like a good way to go for a family or Church community. Make it like a tennis club with a Pro Etc.
Pg 225: A brief summary of things that need to be done for better transportation. Better land use, safer and lower street, more support for transit, less subsidization of highways, and car free city centers.
Pg 239 Select new things on the basis of sustainability.
Pg. 153 another Bliss, George makes bikes of unusaul types in NY City.
Pg 228: The circle game; this is good, to find services within walking, biking or bus distance. A copy should be distributed to everyone within 2 miles of your Church or business.
Pg. 69 Ethiopia has a high 191.6 death per 10,000 vehicles compared to 1.9 in Japan. The VC Boccia's and DT Wade's can testify to that.
Pg 126 Hippocrates said "Walking is man's best medicine."
Pg 129: Walking can be good for the local economy.
Pg. 146: 1 mile of interstate road cost $100 million. How many miles of trails would that build?
Pg 148: Free bike for the community; put in adeposit and get it back when you bring the bike back.
Pg 155: Bike solar charging stations combinded with bike locker. One at home and one at work or school and you would be fixed up.
Pg 172 The car club sounds like a good way to go for a family or Church community. Make it like a tennis club with a Pro Etc.
Pg 225: A brief summary of things that need to be done for better transportation. Better land use, safer and lower street, more support for transit, less subsidization of highways, and car free city centers.
Pg 239 Select new things on the basis of sustainability.
February 15, 2008
First, a complaint. I didn't like the chapter about working from home. I don't want to go to work in slippers. That sounds terrible. The mixture of "office" work and home disgusts me. Also, did a whole chapter have to be dedicated to this? Isn't it enough to say, "Hey, work from home"?
Overall, an excellent book that details the undiscussed history of the automobile and how it's come to limit our transportation options. Divorce Your Car is also fairly inspirational. I am, at the moment, Car-Lite, and I can't believe the limitations that people have placed on the human body because of the car. We decide to drive the shortest distances for the flimsiest of reasons, the worst of which is "I'd get sweaty after walking two miles." If that's true, there are three possibilities: 1) you, like me, have hyperhidrosis, in which case you'd sweat walking to, sitting in, and driving your car; 2) it's hot out, and, guess what, it's going to get hotter. Drink water, use sunscreen, and get used to it. 3) You need to walk two (or more) miles more often, and what better way than to make your exercise functional?
Benefits not discussed in the book:
Besides the obvious health benefits, you get to sweat up your genitals more often. Sex life not so good? Ride your bike and simulate the smell, which, science says, attracts possible partners. If you smell like you get it, you will.
Happy Reading.
Overall, an excellent book that details the undiscussed history of the automobile and how it's come to limit our transportation options. Divorce Your Car is also fairly inspirational. I am, at the moment, Car-Lite, and I can't believe the limitations that people have placed on the human body because of the car. We decide to drive the shortest distances for the flimsiest of reasons, the worst of which is "I'd get sweaty after walking two miles." If that's true, there are three possibilities: 1) you, like me, have hyperhidrosis, in which case you'd sweat walking to, sitting in, and driving your car; 2) it's hot out, and, guess what, it's going to get hotter. Drink water, use sunscreen, and get used to it. 3) You need to walk two (or more) miles more often, and what better way than to make your exercise functional?
Benefits not discussed in the book:
Besides the obvious health benefits, you get to sweat up your genitals more often. Sex life not so good? Ride your bike and simulate the smell, which, science says, attracts possible partners. If you smell like you get it, you will.
Happy Reading.
August 2, 2008
I'm re-reading this one. The first time I read it, I rushed through, looking for ways to be car-free. This time, I'm looking for ways to help explain my decision to live without a car with others (who often look at me as though I've lost an ear when I say I've taken the bus or my bike).
This book was more in-depth than How to Live Well Without Owning a Car (which I recommend as a sort of primer if you're thinking of going car-free). While the former was more of a how-to, Divorce Your Car! includes history on how our culture became so car-dependent, how our government subsidizes the auto industry, and how our cars hurt not only the environment but our sense of community. The second and third parts of the book focus on ways to become car-free and how to encourage our cities to support non-car transportation.
This book was more in-depth than How to Live Well Without Owning a Car (which I recommend as a sort of primer if you're thinking of going car-free). While the former was more of a how-to, Divorce Your Car! includes history on how our culture became so car-dependent, how our government subsidizes the auto industry, and how our cars hurt not only the environment but our sense of community. The second and third parts of the book focus on ways to become car-free and how to encourage our cities to support non-car transportation.
January 13, 2012
Very thought-provoking. I've spent most of my life assuming cars were a part of being middle class, period. But now I question that. There are many financial and quality of life reasons to reconsider having only one way to travel.
Some parts of this book were really dry, and in retrospect, I could have done more skimming. The chapter on air pollution and oil manufacturing pollution was devastating and damning.
I love riding my bike and am dipping my toes into commuting to work via public transportation. I always enjoy public transport when visiting big cities! I'm not selling my car anytime soon, but I think my husband and I could live "car-lite" with one car in the future.
Some parts of this book were really dry, and in retrospect, I could have done more skimming. The chapter on air pollution and oil manufacturing pollution was devastating and damning.
I love riding my bike and am dipping my toes into commuting to work via public transportation. I always enjoy public transport when visiting big cities! I'm not selling my car anytime soon, but I think my husband and I could live "car-lite" with one car in the future.
March 24, 2009
This eye-opening book speaks of our relationship with the automobile as analogous to an unhealthy marriage that we must end in order to make our lives and societies better. The history of the automobile is fascinating, and the author makes a strong case for minimizing our car use. It shows that it really is possible to get by fine without a car, albeit with some compromises. The book ends by detailing how we can change society to be more conducive to living car-free, and outlines a vision for how such a grassroots change could take place.
June 3, 2008
Not much to say about this that I didn't already say about How to Live Well Without Owning a Car. But, while I found that a quick breezy read, this was much more dense, meticulously researched and footnoted. Unfortunately for me, it worked against my interest level, so I ended up skimming a bit of it. I think I need to move on to some breezier summer reading soon.
March 16, 2016
Ways to eliminate or cut down on the use of your car
Favorite Quote: "...not driving simplified my life....I immediately noticed that I had cut my expenses and was saving money. I got more exercise, my health improved, and I dropped a few pounds without watching what I ate. My stress level went down and I slept better at night. And I felt great!"
Favorite Quote: "...not driving simplified my life....I immediately noticed that I had cut my expenses and was saving money. I got more exercise, my health improved, and I dropped a few pounds without watching what I ate. My stress level went down and I slept better at night. And I felt great!"
February 27, 2010
B While this is rather outdated, there's a lot of good stuff in here. I'm already car-free, so I wish she would've slanted it more towards car-free-peeps-already, but it's some good info if you're trying to be less dependent on cars. Good stuff - walk, bike, and drive less! I even have a friend in Switzerland who kayaks to work...ah, to live in Zurich
May 28, 2011
Great advice and inspiration for those who want to become "carfree" or "carlite".
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