Although driving your tank of an SUV from your huge suburban home 15 miles down the road and into the city sounds like the American dream, it is actually eating away at what should matter most to us American’s, the earth we live on.
In the last 35 years home sizes have doubled from roughly 1,200 to a whooping 2,400 square feet and takes that much more to heat, bring electric to and water. Most suburban homes have at least two cars if not three or four, most of which are gas guzzling SUV’s. The common commuter mileage is now at an average of 12 miles, nearly a 25% increase from the 1980s, which is spitting the extra emissions straight into our ozone layer.
However, there is a way for suburban America – which equates for about half of our population – to have their cake and eat it too. And recently, 780 towns have signed onto the United States Conference of Mayors Climate Protection Agreement to do just that.
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