Did you know that nearly half of all daily trips in America are three miles or less?
Rails-to-Trains Conservancy is encouraging people to walk and bike more – to increase health and decrease global warming pollution:
Global climate change and the national obesity epidemic frequently make headlines but are rarely seen as linked. However, these problems have a common driver: heavy dependence on automobile use over healthy walking and biking. The relationship is clear:
More driving + less walking and biking =
more atmospheric CO2 + more American obesity
In the last half-century, our communities have been designed around the automobile. In many places this reliance has made walking and biking difficult and even dangerous.
By taking the Burn Calories, Not Carbon!™ pledge, you commit to walk the walk. Send a message to political leaders that Americans deserve the choice to walk and bike for daily transportation. Together, we can form a positive "energy equation":
More walking and biking + less driving =
healthier people + a healthier planet