Welcome to the
Vermont Clean Cities Coalition
ECO-DRIVING WORKSHOP
This workshop provides hands-on training in proven energy-reduction strategies by encouraging more fuel-efficient driving and less idling. Eco-Driving:
- Saves local governments and individual drivers money.
- Gets immediate GHG reductions.
- Costs little to implement.
Workshop participants will learn dozens of methods for cutting back on fuel consumption—reducing their carbon footprint, and saving money at the same time. Small changes in driving habits—such as avoiding “jackrabbit” starts and stops, keeping tires properly inflated, and removing excess weight from a vehicle—can greatly decrease the amount of fuel used. When more drivers follow eco driving practices, roads are safer and less stressful.
Workshop participants will:
- Experience an interactive lesson and practice eco-driving techniques
- Road test & measure the emissions of their personal vehicle with a 5-gas analyzer
- Get a vehicle check-up: alignment, on-board diagnostics, tire pressure, etc.
- Create a personal eco-driving action plan for reducing fuel consumption
- View an array of plug-in hybrid-electric vehicles, and other dual fuel vehicles, and more
- Receive a tire pressure gauge to jump-start their new eco-driving action plan
Action Sheet and a "Schedule an Eco-Driving Workshop in your community or at your business" button that could be a link to your email address.
On that front (here's the spirited coming in) I'm going to speak to the Jericho Energy Committee in November about the workshops - maybe they'll be interested in hosting one as well.
We are committed to advancing “the economic, environmental and energy security of the U.S.” through cutting back on “petroleum consumption in the transportation sector.” For more information: U.S Department of Energy's Clean Cities website. http://www.eere.energy.gov/cleancities/
For more information contact Karen Glitman at (802) 656-8868 or karen.glitman@uvm.edu.