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Going Places, Making ChoicesGoing Places Making Choices is an education program directed towards students in Santa Cruz County public and private high schools. Funding for this two-year program is made available through the Monterey Bay Unified Air Pollution Control District. Through this program, we bring awareness to students of the social, economic and environmental costs associated with an automobile based society. Additionally we are also attempting to change the attitudes and transportation behaviors of these future drivers, thereby encouraging them to use alternative transportation modes and try ridesharing. We also discuss ways to properly maintain cars so as to minimize the adverse impacts from the use of automobiles. This program is based upon the Going Places Making Choices Program developed and implemented nationwide by the National 4H Council in prior years. The 4H Council received many prestigious awards for this program, including the “Spirit of the Land” environmental education award given by the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the Olympic Winter Games of 2002, and the 2000 Clean Air Excellence Award sponsored by the Clean Air Act Advisory Committee. We are pursuing additional funding to continue this worthwhile program. PROGRAM ACTIVITIESGoing Places, Making Choices GOALS:1) Educate approximately 2,500 high school students over three semesters about why we are such an automobile oriented society, and of the effects of automobile usage on our local and global community and environment; 2) Teach students how to use alternative transportation modes, and why doing so will benefit them personally, as well as benefit the entire community; 3) Teach students how to properly buy and maintain vehicles to minimize negative effects to the environment and to cut down on their driving costs; 4) Make students realize that we are stewards of our environment,
and that transportation related choices effect our community and
environment for many years to come.
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