Category: General
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A non-car
One thing that I particularly enjoy about car-freedom is that because we don’t ever have a car sat outside our presence at home is not clearly marked. Some research suggested that the average car in Britain spends 23 hours a day parked, of which almost three quarters it is parked outside the owner’s house. Although…
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The War on Cars!
In this blog an intention was to review some of the websites and blogs already out there about being car-free. There are a few and some are really helpful and interesting – so I still do need to do it sometime. However, I recently found my way to a podcast which seems to have become…
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How did you get here?
Being a car-free family is not some fad for us. As written about in the first entry to this blog we have never owned a car. Of all the things that we have done to try to pay attention to the impacts and feedback related to what we eat, the energy we use and how…
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Beginning car-free blogging
To be car-free, or is it more simply stated no-car? What might a group of people be called who do not own a car? Somebody’s lack of car ownership could be because it is unachievable due to the financial cost, and/or some ethical judgement about the ‘goodness’ of not-owning. Although the word ‘car’ is somewhat…
Car-free family 