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11 Ways To Make Personal Travel More Sustainable And Less Polluting

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Sure, your mind may go right to taking the subway or hailing a taxi, but there are many ways to make travel more sustainable and a lot less polluting. Buses, subways, and light rail trains are a viable and green way to get around. You can pick up a good used bike for under $100 and stop paying for gasoline and emitting noxious gases.

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Bike Your Way to a Healthier, Richer, Happier You

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

If you continued to only fill up for this amount twice per month, after a full year you’d have spent $1,320 just on gasoline alone. I could have purchased 2 brand-new bikes for how much I would have been spending on gasoline. Last summer, I purchased a hybrid bicycle for less than $600, and I biked to work every day.

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