I'm pleased to announce that my law firm, Calfee, Halter & Griswold, is the first CBus company to adopt the Eco-Buck Program. Starting tomorrow we'll pay employees $1 for each day they bike, walk, bus, blade or unicycle (I'd love to see that) to work.......this will help us and the environment get healthy at the same time.......it will also begin to heal and reconnect our community. Pioneered by the Urban Ecology Center in Milwaukee, this little program will help us change the world.
Calfee also has adopted the "2 by 2012" BHAG ("big hairy audacious (or ass, depending on your temperment) goal").......that is, each of my Calfee colleagues will be aiming to bike, walk or transit to work 2 days per month, thereby doing his or her part to help us attain a 10% "mode shift" in the way we commute as a community. This will move us ahead of Portland, Oregon which, at a 7% mode shift, leads the country in green commuting. Columbus is currently at less than 1/2% (many cities in Europe have a 20%-50% mode shift.) I hope to be able to report to Mayor Coleman by the end of this year that Cafee has reached or exceeded 2X2012, well ahead of schedule.
I am urging all central Ohio companies and organizations to follow our lead.......if we can do this, Columbus will be one of the greenest, most progressive cities in the US and you won't believe how young people, and companies, will flock here...........so, who's gonna be second?
How do you keep track of how people get to work?
I walk mostly. :) I would love for my job to adopt this.
Posted by: Anne Evans | February 17, 2008 at 12:18 PM
Hopefully it will be Young Isaac, Inc.
Posted by: ashley v Routson | February 18, 2008 at 09:32 AM