{"id":4214,"date":"2019-12-05T15:20:10","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T21:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.lps.org\/sustainability\/?p=4214"},"modified":"2019-12-05T15:44:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T21:44:53","slug":"idle-free-school-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/sustainability\/2019\/12\/05\/idle-free-school-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Idle-Free School Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

As temperatures are getting colder this winter, emissions from car idling will be on the rise. Whether it\u2019s ten minutes waiting to pick a child up after school or five minutes in a drive-thru line, it may not seem like a big deal to sit at a stand-still with a car on. <\/span>Yet, the U.S. Department of Energy estimates that six billion gallons of fuel are wasted by car idling each year!<\/span><\/a> Car idling actually contributes to negative environment effects and puts toxic fumes into the air that are dangerous for humans to inhale. Excessive idling can also be damaging to a car engine.\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

There are a few misconceptions surrounding car idling that show it is not the best method to keep your vehicle healthy. <\/span>Modern vehicles are actually designed to reach an optimum temperature by gently driving rather than idling<\/span><\/a>. Also, restarting a car does not produce more pollution than keeping it on. In fact, car idling for more than 10 seconds emits more pollution than restarting a car. Any idling beyond 30 seconds may actually contribute to damaging the car engine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Often times, car idling is concentrated in school areas as cars wait to pick up or drop off children leading to a \u201cpollution hot spot.\u201d <\/span>School air quality monitoring has shown that toxin levels are elevated during drop off and pick up times.<\/span><\/a> This is particularly dangerous for children as their lungs are still developing, therefore they are more susceptible to pollutants in the air.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Are you interested in lowering car emissions around your school after learning this information? <\/span>Consider implementing a Idle-Free School Campaign!<\/span><\/a> The EPA has a toolkit available providing a guide to implement a campaign at your school. <\/span>The toolkit also provides resources to make this a student-run science or community involvement project, providing students with the opportunity to learn how to run a public service campaign. With this particular toolkit, students will also learn data analysis and public speaking skills. <\/span>An Idle Free Campaign is also a part of the Green Schools Recognition Program, so don\u2019t forget to submit your points.\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As temperatures are getting colder this winter, emissions from car idling will be on the rise. Whether it\u2019s ten minutes waiting to pick a child up after school or five minutes in a drive-thru line, it may not seem like a big deal to sit at a stand-still with a car on. Yet, the U.S. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5565,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5XcXY-15Y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5565"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4214"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4244,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4214\/revisions\/4244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}