Open Access“No Car Day”
Author(s) -
Richard C. Chu,
Vijey Jeevakumaran
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
jaste
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2560-8908
DOI - 10.33137/jaste.v5i1.34270
Subject(s) - thursday , morning , carpool , event (particle physics) , names of the days of the week , time of day , climate change , action (physics) , dusk , advertising , psychology , transport engineering , engineering , business , medicine , zoology , ecology , philosophy , linguistics , physics , quantum mechanics , biology
Transportation is the major factor contributing to climate change. We decided to address the issue of transportation in relation to climate change for this research-informed action (RiA) project. The purpose of our RiA project was to learn about transportation and climate change, conduct a mini-correlational study, and address the issue by encouraging students and their parents to limit car use. After learning that a larger portion of the boys and girls that we surveyed rely on cars to get to school we decided to organize an event called “No Car Day” at Erindale SS on March 22, 2013. This coincided with Earth Hour. In addition, we made announcements from Monday to Thursday to inform student s about this specific event. We counted the number of cars prior to the event and found that an average of 156 cars dropped students off in the morning. On the morning of the event, we counted the number of cars again. This time, the number of cars was 115.We think that our campaign made a difference. We want to encourage students in other schools to organize similar events. We encourage our peers and our teachers to carpool, take the bus, bike or walk. If we all do our part, then we may be able to alleviate the negative effects that transportation has on climate change before it is too late.