Help for Saving at the Gas Pump! With summer vacations plus daily commutes and errands, this site will give you some helpful tips and suggestions as to how to save on gas usage. The Alliance to Save Energy, made up of 18 member companies, trade associations, government agencies, consumer group and nonprofits (including the Wal-mart Foundation, ExxonMobil and the NRDC) recently joined forces to launch: http://drivesmarterchallenge.org. Focused totally on transportation, the new Drive Smarter Challenge campaign aims to help consumers cut gasoline costs through efficient driving tips and practices.

Taking the Alliance’s Drive $marter Challenge means pledging to take from one to six actions that will produce measurable reductions in gas, money, and CO2 emission.
A calculator on the site computes not only your individual savings through your own actions, but also computes a running tally of savings by everyone who has taken the challenge. It demonstrates the impact of one person’s actions multiplied by similar fuel-efficiency actions of family members, friends, and colleagues of all the people who share the tips and challenge others to participate. Once taking the challenge, the site also delivers money-saving coupons for fuel-efficient products.

The new site encourages you to:

• Check out and download money-saving driving and vehicle maintenance tips.
• Take the Drive Smarter Challenge –  choose 1-6 fuel efficiency actions – and immediately see your savings calculations (money, gasoline, greenhouse gas emissions).
• Help spread the word by telling 6  family members and friends about the Drive Smarter Challenge and become eligible for discount coupons for fuel-efficient products that can reduce gasoline bills.
• See how individual actions and those of others who take the challenge create a multiplier effect.

Also see our Managing Daily Life – Save on Gas with the Right Car for more fuel-saving tips!

Busy moms on-the-go may not always think they have the time to help out the Earth, BUT Josh can share ways in which everyone can make a difference. From daily household things, to shopping for friendlier food for your family, here are tons of ideas that he would love to share – check out the links below.

Josh Dorfman is an environmental entrepreneur, author, speaker, and radio personality. He is the founder & CEO of Vivavi, a provider of contemporary, eco-friendly furniture and furnishings, working with over forty of today’s leading sustainable designers. In 2006, he launched ModernGreenLiving.com, Vivavi’s companion resource that helps consumers find green homes and green building experts throughout North America. Inc. Magazine has named Vivavi one of the fifty most intriguing companies helping to drive today’s green revolution.

Josh’s media ventures centered on The Lazy Environmentalist, the environmental talk radio show he had on Lime Radio on Sirius Satellite Radio (Channel 114) for which he was the creator, producer, and host. His book, The Lazy Environmentalist: Your Guide To Easy, Stylish, Green Living, was published in May 2007. Dwell Magazine called it “a guide to going green without resorting to Birkenstocks and brown rice casserole.”

As a green lifestyle expert, Josh has appeared on the Martha Stewart Show as well as on NBC, MSNBC, Bravo, and the Discovery Health Channel. He is the spokesperson for the Filter For Good campaign, a partnership between Brita and Nalgene that encourages consumers to reduce their plastic water bottle waste. He is also a member of the National Advisory Council for the Arts and Environment for the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts .