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Focus on Air Quality: Walk and Roll Corporate Challenge
Late summer is often the time of year when San Antonio is inundated with air quality health alerts. The summer heat exacerbates our emissions from our vehicles, leading to elevated levels of ozone pollution.
To promote transportation options to curb emissions from our vehicles, San Antonio-Bexar County Metropolitan Planning Organization and AACOG are currently conducting the 5th Annual Walk & Roll Corporate Challenge.
This yearly initiative is designed to reward local businesses and organizations who promote sustainable transporation options, such as biking, walking and carpooling, to their employees.
Organizations are challenged to log the most "Smart Miles," which are miles traveled within the 12-county region surrounding San Antonio using energy efficient and healthy means instead of traveling as a single occupant in a vehicle. The goal is to improve air quality, while reducing our gasoline consumption and improving our health.
The goal of this year's initiative is to accumulate 750,00 "Smart Miles," the equivalent of removing 2,784 pounds of ozone-producing pollutants from the atmosphere.
Organizations and individuals interested in participating in the challenge can register at walkandrollchallenge.com, which also includes a wealth of information options regarding local sustainable transportation optinos.
The Walk and Roll Challenge runs from September 1 through September 30, 2010. Winners will be announced and prizes will be rewarded in October.
Recycle Your Cell Phone For Texas Public Radio
 Cell phones contain toxic substances such as nickel, mercury, cadmium, arsenic and zinc that could be hazardous to our ecosystems when they are discarded in our landfills. Currently there are over 3 billion out of use cellphones in the United States, and less than 10 percent of those phones are recycled properly.
If you have an unused cell phone, you can help benefit Texas Public Radio and the environment by mailing in your device for recycling. TPR has partnered with C-2 It Marketing to participate in a cell phone drive. Simple print out a shipping label and mail in your phone for free and Texas Public Radio will receive 70 percent of the proceeds.
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