Did you know I started a blog, I met with an aide from my local council member’s office and people are still running their cars??? The audacity.

I must remind myself, even as February has fifty-degree days, that a) I can’t save the earth all by myself and b) I am still doing something to help. Will it be enough to save the polar bears, bees, or air, who knows but I am trying and trying. And here is the real kicker, so are others!!!

This past week I did meet with an aide from my local council member’s office. Yes, they meet with all their constituents, that is their job. So how is this a win? Well, this council member has recently been elected, the last person in her job never even emailed or called me back. Is this to say they were bad at their job, no; but the environment was not on their radar. I am extremely hopeful that the new class of elected officials understand and are equally concerned with the fate our environment and the air quality in Brooklyn, in New York, in the WORLD.

I have revisited the members of the precinct that made me mad last week when they told me “people don’t like those tickets.” So, I changed my strategy, I asked them to focus on on playground in my neighborhood. There is an outdoor gym at this park. At some point it became part of the of culture to go work out but leave your car running and double parked while you do so. Again, if those men and women stop idling their cars will the earth be fixed, nope. Yet, I can continue to ask and push. Not for me, not for you but for this earth that we depend on just to exist.  

So yes, I am dying inside on this “spring” day at the start of February. Yes, I feel like I am doing nothing as I watch person after person idling their cars as I walk miles through the city. Yet, I am reminding myself that this fight that I chose to take on, has been fought since 1972 and only the idlers have won. One small change can make a difference. Every drop in the bucket can help. Cliche after cliche, inch by inch. So do your part if your car is not going anywhere just turn off your car. Save money, save gas (which is pricey) and indirectly help the earth.

I am doing this for you NYC (among others!! (bears, bees, whales)) Thanks to Brian Tafel for the amazing picture.