About Us

Since this is one of your first visits to Yatrips, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!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 […]

A Million Miles Less

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, practical way that collectively becomes […]

The Waters Around You Have Grown

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 ice cap atop Mount Kenya […]

The Math

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 we’re not roadshy. Each […]

Carma

Karma is a pretty simple concept. It boils down to cause and effect.
Within the realm of environmental action as it pertains to cars, however, we’ve ingeniously replaced the ‘k’ with a ‘c.’
Permit us a brief explanation.
Carma refers to each mile less we drive as the result of our efforts from sharing rides. Accordingly, […]

Tyrannosaurus Rex is in the Sky

In America, we each drive an average of 12,500 miles per year. Our vehicles average 21.5 miles per gallon. For every mile we drive (in a passenger car) we release .971 lbs of CO2 into the atmosphere. Sorry folks, but that economy car you drive is no exception. That means after one year, you just […]

Groups

Yatrips Groups is a flexible way to share rides among people with shared interests. People can use Groups among existing friends or to make new friends. You can create Groups to be public or private. Create a public group to share rides to a football game or create a private group for moms who […]

1 Gallon of Gasoline produces 19.3 lbs of CO2e ! Yikes

How the heck does that happen?
Here’s how!