moving our community & planet IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION

Transportation accounts for 30% of our community's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It's smaller than GHGs produced by heating and cooling buildings and homes, but adopting low-carbon transportation options can be easier to do. While the switch to electric vehicles (EVs) helps get the emissions out of our community, it essentially relocates them to where the energy is produced (unless you're completely generating all your own electricity off the grid, then hats off to you!).

The (whole) answer isn't just swapping all gas cars for electric ones. It's swapping cars for bikes of all kinds, public transportation, and walkable neighborhoods. An objective of Princeton's Climate Action Plan is to reduce community-wide miles traveled by a fossil-fuelpowered vehicles. This issue is dedicated to making your spring commute a little greener and maybe a bit more fun. You don't need a new bike or new anything—just a little patience and an open mind to going a different way, literally.