[Durham INC] FW: Parking Lots

[Pat Carstensen]

There's no national inventory of how many parking spaces, lots, decks are out there – one academic who's studied parking compares it to the "dark matter" in the universe – but the researchers point to such things as the heat island effect, where pavement raises summer temperatures which requires more energy for air-conditioning, etc. They calculated that when parking spots are taken into account, an average car’s per-mile carbon emissions go up as much as 10 percent.

Read more: http://marynewsom.blogspot.com/2011/01/parking-lots-as-polluters.html#ixzz1BiJGzKdh
I also like her idea of raising the parking fees for high school students.
 		 	   		  
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