"Monitor work application - On 3rd is 'No Individual Car's Day'"

Oita Oita Godo Newspaper (morning edition on November 29, 2008)  

The prefecture this year will be held as a 2^nd time for the 'stop global warming' has been in practicing since last time. The earth temperature policy has established in Kyushu, Okinawa, Yamaguchi as a unification campaign link. Trying not to use your own car at home, can help to decrease CO2 gas or the objective of what should have be done to achieve decreasing, and  in order to give the knowledge to the citizen in cities the coordinated monitor from the working office had opened the application for volunteers until on 1^st December. The local citizen has concerned about this activity in wide range of areas, they have held the motto of helping the earth to prevent global warming in their mind.

According to the office of environmental behavior planning department this year, on 4^th June, the establishment of the first project activity no individual car's day, on that they there were lots of working offices around 113 companies to collaborate as a monitor and among those people they found that there are 3131 cars which are not being used at all.  There is the assumption to convert into the car that can be ran around 10 kilometers by 1 liter. There is 9.72 ton of CO2 which has been decreased. This 2^nd time, November will be around 190 monitor office work places become as participant but now it is still in the process of making decision. And the small areas there is 'the places nearby which started to follow, stop using the cars as far as they can and also expected from a little group to become a bigger one then can collaborate together' this is what was presented as the last conversation about this project. 

Comment:  Nowadays, global warming is such a thing that gives the definition of human culture in the modern world very well. To decrease individual car use is also one of the good resolutions that can see the result obviously, as it helps the decreasing amount of CO2 gas, the important element of being green house effect phenomenon. It is time for us to change our lifestyle and activites which disturb the environment.

PUNTHUCHAT Siripun

Thailand

APS3, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University