AUDIO (9:55) | Feds revamp stance on idling after meeting with drive-thru group | Tim Hortons Greenwash

CBC AUDIO.
In case you missed it the first time.
We are sending this out as there are many new councillors across the country that have recently taken on this issue.
This strategy of “manufacturing scientific uncertainty” comes directly from the industry’s denialism playbook. The industry invests big money for public relations campaign to raise doubts about the [...]

Local Issue | Contact Councillors on the Idling Recommendation

Dear Citizens,
As citizens of London, you have an opportunity to voice your concern for our shared natural environment.  The startling stats can be found below.
The City of London will be making changes to our idling bylaw which was introduced in 1999.  City staff have recommended a one minute anti-idling bylaw [...]

Idling at drive-thrus creates health problems

Idling at drive-thrus creates health problems  | Beverley J. Anderson is the air quality educator for the Williams Lake Environmental Society, in partnership with the Williams Lake Air Quality Roundtable
Published: June 05, 2009 7:00 PM
People like drive-thrus.  So do fast food chains, since drive-thrus supply more than half of [...]

Expert’s advice: Don’t waste gas in idle time at fast-food windows

Expert’s advice: Don’t waste gas in idle time at fast-food windows
Friday, June 05, 2009
BY T.W. BURGER tburger@patriot-news.com
Robert Davis has a pet peeve.
The retired Navy submariner and PECO energy-efficiency expert sees long lines of vehicles sitting in line at fast-food restaurant drive-through windows and it drives him crazy.
Davis is no off-the-wall crackpot. [...]

You Can Help! Hand Out These Flyers to Idling Cars

http://www.sierraclub.bc.ca/quick-links/Turn%20it%20off%20handout.pdf
Idle-Wise campaign: One small action by a single person does have enormous impact.  Alone, it is a symbol – an example to many others.  When multiplied over hundreds, thousands and millions, it can be world-changing.  One small action every person can take is to shut off their vehicle if idling for 10 seconds or more, [...]

Sierra magazine | Idling cars are an economic and an environmental disaster

Harming the environment is no idle threat | Idling cars are an economic and an environmental disaster
Sierra magazine, March/April 2009 issue, p. 14
How many times have you sat in line for several minutes at a bank or fast-food drive-through and wondered how much gas you were wasting? Perhaps you even [...]

The High Cost to Society of Idling

Problems caused by idling

There are a number of problems associated with idling:

It’s expensive
It’s bad for breathing
It’s bad for children
It’s an ineffective way to warm your vehicle
It’s damaging your vehicle

It’s expensive
Even if the vehicle isn’t moving, if the engine is running, gas and oil are being consumed. With fuel prices as high as they [...]

20 Things you should know about idling

Idling gets you nowhere – and it can be costly. Excessive idling wastes over $100 a year per vehicle, and generates needless greenhouse gas emissions.
Idling produces more emissions per minute than driving.
Engine exhaust (diesel and gas) contains more than 40 hazardous air pollutants.
Traffic areas around schools – where vehicles are often [...]

City of London Anti-Idling Campaign | 2009

Be Idle Free!

Some Facts About Idling

The average Canadian idles their car for about 5-10 minutes per day.  Some of this is unavoidable (i.e., waiting at red lights), but a lot of idling is avoidable.  This works out to roughly 20,000 to 40,000 tonnes of greenhouse gases per year, or about 1% of [...]

TOP STORY | Wally Kennedy: Drive-thru Convenience consumes 100,000 gallons of gas on Range Line

Published January 27, 2009 08:56 am
Not long ago, I wrote about the convenience of drive-through windows. It was specifically in regard to the drive-through at Macadoodles at 17th Street and Range Line Road.
I said you could pick up some spirits there and then drive through interconnecting parking lots to the drive-through windows at Backyard Burgers [...]