http://blog.yatrips.com Ride share to save the planet Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:56:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Manufacturing everything from tea to software, Indian corporate giant, Tata, has announced that it’s going to start manufacturing cars. Cheap cars. Really, really cheap cars. Tata, which is responsible for about 3% of the Indian GDP has announced that on Thursday, January 10, 2008, it will begin ... http://blog.yatrips.com/rideshare/tata-prepares-to-slaughter-the-environment/ So oil just hit an all-time high of $100.05 a barrel. You probably figured this out when you paid $3.35 a gallon for regular unleaded in California around Christmas. But the number is pretty abstract to you, right? It is to all of us. Save for you eco-terrorists ... http://blog.yatrips.com/rideshare/guess-who-youre-supporting/ Yep, you read correctly: you are the problem. We’ll admit it wholeheartedly: so are we. We’re all the problem. Our trips to the grocery store, our commutes to and from work, or our personal favorite, driving to the gym (get over yourself, really), these are all reasons ... http://blog.yatrips.com/rideshare/you-and-other-problems/ Ecological activism used to be confined to "crazy liberals."  You know the stereotype well: a makeup-boycotting, doughy woman who wore knitted socks with Birkenstocks and had her car smugly decked out in green bumper stickers.  The hideous car was an early 80's Mercedez-Benz that had been converted ... http://blog.yatrips.com/rideshare/why-being-green-is-cool-and-you-dont-have-to-smell-like-patchouli/ Fresh from his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway on Monday, December 10, 2008, Al Gore announced to reporters at the United Nations Climate Change Conference that the United States was "principally responsible for obstructing progress here in Bali." He encouraged the the audience to wait ... http://blog.yatrips.com/rideshare/share-the-responsibility-and-share-a-ride/ Knowing that governmental bodies are slow to reach agreements is not news, but being slow to reach agreements regarding the environment is even more detrimental than you think. Take the current situation at the U.N. as an example. On December 12, 2007, it was announced at the U.N. ... http://blog.yatrips.com/rideshare/why-you%e2%80%99re-even-more-important-than-you-thought/ Yatrips provides a friendly way for people to offer or participate in rides. Based on our Energy Technology (ET), we are committed to help people share rides and make new friends, while helping Mother Earth. We pair people together, based on their common interests in Facebook. Our sophisticated ... http://blog.yatrips.com/rideshare/about-us/ Amber, a rocket scientist, calculated that we drive over 2.6 trillion miles each year in America. So how can a campaign to drive A Million Miles Less matter? Because it’s a starting point. We have to begin someplace. Someplace, where each of us can participate in a small, ... http://blog.yatrips.com/rideshare/a-million-mile-less/ When Bob Dylan penned the lyrics to his 1964 release, The Times They are A-Changin', he encouraged us to gather 'round people, wherever you roam and admit that the waters around you have grown. Since Dylan recorded these lyrics in 1963, Peru's Qori Kalis glacier has shrunk by 10 percent and the ... http://blog.yatrips.com/rideshare/the-waters-around-you-have-grown-thanks-to-bob-dylan/ Americans are a busy bunch; we work, we shop, we play and most of us accomplish this with our cars; more than 127 million cars, in fact. Coupled with our SUVs and light trucks numbering approximately 73 million, Americans are armed with over 200 million motor vehicles. And ... http://blog.yatrips.com/rideshare/the-math/