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Here are some nice examples of pictures you can send us in order to share your daily experiences, when commuting greener!

We would like to increase the user generated contents in Commute Greener! One way is to gather nice and funny photos that you are willing to share when commuting with greener ways of transportation.

You will soon be able to send us your images, taken with your photo camera, or even your phone.

Your image will be appreciated on overall photographic and artistic quality. Regardless of whether you are an amateur or a professional.

When you took a picture, please send it to commutegreener@gmail.com and we will publish it on a Flickr account : http://www.flickr.com/photos/commutegreener/

So now it’s your turn ! Show us your best photos and share the URL on flickr to challenge your friends and colleague in a friendly competition! Commute Greener!

If you browse this blog with your iPhone, you will now see that your browsing experience has gotten much better! We have installed a new plugin to Wordpress, which displays pages the way your iPhone like them.

Try it right now, by connecting to www.commutegreenerinfo.com !

We are proud to present the new version of Commute Greener! app for iPhone ! You can download it right now from your Apple store, and discover its new functionalities!
To get it, simply CLICK here

- Collect Zero emmission kilometers
- Collect PTA (Public Transports) kilometers
- Enhanced registration and more emoticons etc

New ways to compare and compete with your friends and colleagues!

We are happy to see that Reuters share their view on how the emergence of collecting Zero emission mileage can play out. Laura Isensee ask if it is possible that a ‘mass market could develop for individual carbon tracking — not just for big corporations’.

We share this idea and provide the possibility to take actions. Commute Greener!

The Copenhagen Accord, which was an outcome of COP15, should now be able to summarise how large CO2 reductions the world is committed to make.

However, it seems like yesterdays news and nothing to remain gloomy about. Because even if yesterday was the deadline for nations to submit their information the most important actions are to be executed by individuals.

Commute Greener! are celebrating 1st of February by announcing:
* Start saving miles
* Evolving social media interactions with Facebook
* Individual feedback counts

Remember the collection of frequent flyer miles?
Well, even more important, will be to collect and measure the distance you go with Zero emissions as well as the commute you spend with public transport. Commute Greener! now enables a new meaning with walking and biking. Health, wealth and a better planet is a basic objective. You can collect the Zero emission km’s and compete with friends, family and colleagues. Furthermore, in pipeline are further incentives for going with public transportation means and discovering the best options.

Facebook and which polluter profile are you?
Facebook is one of the greatest social networks and Commute Greener! interacts more and more within various arenas. Now, you can take a quiz and learn more. Feel free to spread it within your network as well. See you as a fan and feel free to come with suggestions on how to interact.

Susanna thinks!
One of our dear users, and beloved customers, Susanna had an idea on how to further develop Commute Greener! Not only does she think, but takes actions and reach results. Her idea is now in progress to become a feature within short. Meanwhile she has set her target, she sees the progress and share her experiences. We do not know who is her specific contacts are or who she sets a challenge for. But we do see how it all adds up are happy for today’s news. Further comments, feedback and development suggestions are warmly welcome!

While there is beauty of snow in Lyon and other places, it looks different ‘over here’. In the last blog post of last year I asked if someone could figure out where the photo was taken. So far Sherlock Holmes and his peers have found it too hard to get the answer.

In the state which in just about 300 days will introduce a new Cap and Trade system in order to reduce carbon footprint most things come in large (and some really fascinating activities are going on as well). There are some further hints and bellow also adds to the picture:

BART is a ride beyond Simpsons and the letters are part of an acronym, in other parts the streets go right among hills and valleys (bush can be seen in the background from the trolley as well), Dan and Marge are just outside the City Hall that with its interior is even more beautiful, mobility is an integrated way of working while commuting, finally, is capturing a hybrid that by the sign facilitate mode-shifts. On the same continent Facebook seems to provide the Volvo Group with active online presence.

It’ snowing in Lyon, France! As most of my colleague, I had to choose to commute greener because I had no other choice! As it does not snow that often in Lyon, our bus network has been paralysed almost all day.

Two behaviours have been chosen among my colleagues : some of them took their car (and 3 hours) to go to the office. Some of them, like me, chose to walk (around 20mn for me) and take the fresh air ; some of them, chose to work from home.

It is very interesting to consider thatworking from home also means a lot of CO2 reduction, as a interesting side effect. The debate is open for some years now, on the subject, but here is another interesting element, as cities now try to concentrate buildings in order to avoid people taking their car too often : ain’t working from home sometimes the best solution ?

a new year is approaching, and it is a good time for reflection and to gather energy for change. To deliver positive climate change is the vision for Commute Greener!

Personally I have just engaged into being more committed than ever, there are great things to come and we all have a possibility to contribute. Step by step…

Thanks to our Open Innovation research and a scholarship from the IT-University of Göteborg I have now taken some steps to get to the other side of the Atlantic. The photo below shows one step of positive encouragement, can you figure out where it is taken?

What is your new year resolution?
Take a moment to reflect, set your target, secure ways to measure progress and share your experiences. Looking forward to 2010 and sustainable development

It has now been a week or so since the Commute Greener! team returned from Copenhagen and we’re still thinking of all the great people we met and talked with out on the streets. It was a fantastic experience – one that we’d like to share with you in some small way.  We’ve made a short video diary to capture our experiences out on streets, talking with people from around the world, while dressed as mobile phones.

Watch the video of us on You Tube >>

We’d love to hear what you think – about our video – or your thoughts on Copenhagen activities in general.  Please share your stories with us. 

p.s. I also want to say thanks to our new friends from UN’s Cool Planet team, who are  helping to spread the word about Commute Greener!
Click to read the interview >>

Commute Greener!
Jen