How can schools encourage greener transportation to and from school?

[ryan]

Schools could encourage students, parents and teachers to leave their cars at home and walk to school, also cycling to school...what ideas do you have?

[john]

Depends where you live (Americas, Europe, etc.) but there is car-pooling. Also, schools and students in some countries get discounts for using public transportation Trains, Trams, Metro, Buses which in Europe are most electric. Also, there are buses (school buses) which use "green gas". Gas that is created from green left overs and waste (e.g animal droppings, plant waste, etc.). So there are a lot of possibilities.

[john.roger288]

I think for the US, the fact of the matter is.....we are still solely running on gas products and cars.....until electric cars can run better and get farther than 50 miles on a single charge

[Bancroft]

Before children can start learning and interacting with peers, they need to get to school. And how they do has an enormous impact on our environment as well as their health.
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[arodriguez]

clean air hybrid electric buses would be a step in an environmental direction

[andyT]

I was reading about a place in the Netherlands where they replaced buses with bike-buses, though I think they had a small engine just in case there weren't enough kids to drive it. Just about as green as it gets!

[LXR]

Bicycles are relatively cheap, and are good exercise. It probably wasn't that long ago where the bike was seen as a luxury as opposed to walking. I remember my science teacher as a kid saying how he used to have to walk 7 miles to get to school. Can't imagine there's many kids in the world today who do that.