[R. Scott]

Not to worry, you can still do something to fight global warming: Live closer to work.

Yep - but more importantly, it's a good way to cut down on traffic congestion. People want to live in quiet neighborhoods, but want to work in the city. Then they complain about having a two hour commute.

[Publius6961]

Red herring alert!

With the internet and high-speed cable, the best alternative is staring us in the face.

Also, de-centralizing "headquarters skyscrapers" away from the major cities would be almost as effective.
With modern technology, that no longer makes any sense whatsoever.

Unless, of course, the doofuses and "climate change" idiots succeed into forcing us all back to the 18th century.

Just saying.

[Normal4me]

I can't. As a commercial builder they make me put up buildings where THEY want them put up. Besides that, I am not pulling a trailer full of tools and materials behind a freaking bicycle either!

[SledgeCS]

I live a total of 1.3 miles from work but to help offset the greens I drive in the 4x4 after it is properly warmed up of course.

[Kevmo]

It’s so simple, why didn’t I think of that? Wow, these libruls are so smart.

[cgbg]

I work in a downtown sounded by horrific ghettos.

If I lived close to work I couldn't step outside after dark for fear of being mugged or killed.

Maybe they should move the work out to me.

[Myrddin]

I can't move much closer. I work from my house. No commuting required. When I do have to travel, it is to a customer site. All the rest of the project team must also travel on those occasions.

[vpintheak]

And live in a commune, right, got it.

[End Times Sentinel]

What a bunch of jerks you guys all are.

I moved so that I'm just a mile from my work, I'm saving the planet, but you guys are destroying it even faster.

The one draw back, being so close to work, is that traffic is a bear (I'm not much one for walking) but I've found a back way, admittedly it adds 60 miles each way, but I feel AWESOME about my self the whole way.

Owl_Eagle

If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Live closer to work.

Gee I never thought of that!

I'll talk to my boss about moving the plant right away.

Hey! Maybe we should move the farms to the middle of the city too.

[Muleteam1]

Just about the time they convince everyone to “move in close” to their work, L.A., New York or Houston will disappear off the face of the earth under a terrorist’s mushroom cloud. Rural America will never be the same when the rats jump that ship now fondly called the “Great American City.”

[pogo101]

To go green, live closer to work, report says

Wow. What a breakthrough.

[AlaskaErik]

Living close to work is nice, but not always feasible or desirable. The town I work in is an old farming community. Lots are small and many are built on old clearcut fields. I don’t like looking out of my window and seeing 50 other houses around me. The town also sits in a wind tunnel (think venturi effect), so winters are bitterly cold when the wind blows. And the police are very overzealous. Combine that with an anti-growth mentality for business and it’s not a nice place to live. I live 14.5 miles away and the difference is enormous. Best of all, I live in a nice subdivision with one acre lots. People are friendly and houses are hundreds of feet apart. And it’s fully wooded, so you have plenty of privacy.

[biscuit jane]

My commute is unpredictable since I get dispatched all over the place.

Thing is enviros are crazy jealous of anyone owning land/ranch etc, so they want all land to be public and have humans squashed into Utopian Ec0-Villages...

Ever hear of U.N. Agenda21 ??

[Chode]

closer hell... sometimes 19 miles away isn't far enough.

[upchuck]

"So long as people ardently desire to live and raise children in detached homes with a bit of lawn, there is virtually nothing that government bureaucrats can do that will thwart that," he said.

And may it always be so. God Bless America.

[cubreporter]

You don’t tell me where you think I should live and I won’t tell you where you can go and I DON’T mean neighborhoods!!!

[secretagent]

End zoning laws, and people would find the mix they wanted.

More efficient and hence better for the environment.

[longtermmemmory]

TRANSLATION: CITIES NEED TAXPAYERS DENIED BY URBAN SPRAWL!!!!

[cubreporter]

by the way I didn’t mean YOU...I was referring to the person who wrote the article or the ones who try to be “big brother” to the rest of us. Just wanted to be sure you didn’t think I meant you. :)