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People who work from home all the time ‘cut emissions by 54%’ against those in office
(www.theguardian.com)
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As a full time remote worker, I can confirm, I'm driving so much less. My commute prior to the pandemic was 18 minutes (12.7 miles one way), so 25 miles round trip with 36 minutes spent driving each work day. My commute was short compared to a lot of other people I worked with who'd drive 45 minutes one way, some 1 hour one way! That's a lot of driving that can be cut out if the role allows for remote work.
I find I'm less angry too. A lot of bad drivers out there. Lol
Ah yah...lots of stupid drivers here just piss me off...lots of traffic compared to last year too...
Just being stuck in traffic when you could be getting shit done is what gets me. Time/money/carbon emissions... just wasteful in every way
I have a theory about the increase of bad drivers that seems to have happened after the pandemic. So most of the higher paid desk jobs where usually people are more intelligent mostly went to WFH. So there are less intelligent people on the road than there used to be. So now it's all idiots in cars taking free reign of the roads. Less traffic causes the idiots to be able to more freely speed and run reds. I know since working from home I drive about 90% less and when I do I am scared for my life.
As someone who works a desk job, no, there are lots of idiots in those jobs, and lots of smart people digging ditches.
I'm lucky enough to have multiple routes to my office.
During the times that taking the back roads is dramatically slower, I'll go on the interstate. Holy hell my stress and anger levels rocket when doing that.
I also eat at home a lot more which has a far lower ecological cost than going out to eat
And healthier, since restaurants tend to go all out on sugar, fat, and salt to make their meals tasty.
Oh I never said anything about eating healthy 😅
Food isn't medicine, it's allowed to be healthy and tasty
For sure, it's just that restaurants more often than not take shortcuts that aren't healthy to achieve the tasty. I fully agree that you can make healthier and still very tasty food at home, they're not mutually exclusive.
Yeah, we make large portions when we cook so I can freeze the leftovers for lunch.
It's a good idea to change your oil every 12 months even if you don't reach the mileage for the maintenance interval. The heat cycles from the engine creates condensation in the engine and the water reacts with the petroleum in the oil and produces some not nice stuff. I haven't been reaching my interval but my car will still beep at me 30 days before the last oil monitor reset.
I changed mine before a ~1500 mile road trip summer of 2022. Flipped to the percentage (Honda) the other day just out of curiosity and it's still at 60%, lol. I put so few miles on that thing it's crazy. I sometimes go a few miles to lunch. Outside that we use it for hardware store runs here and there. I guess I did drive it to a wedding a couple weeks back but that was because I knew we would be parking in a farm field and it's my only 4 wheel drive vehicle. Probably should change the oil before winter just for good measure.
i just worked out im saving 2160 litres of fuel a year by not driving every day