Are you a little ‘off’ today?

October 22nd, 2008 at 04:10am Jennie Pollock

I infrequently use a drive-thru, but today I had to go to the bank instead of go to its Web site. As soon as I pulled up, I turned off the engine.

Never done that before, but that’s the goal of the No Idle Zone coalition, a grass-roots effort to launch in February. We wrote about it here.

Kudos to the three people who have gotten this ball rolling: Steering committee members Linda Sandquist of the Community Foundation of Northern Illinois, Monica Krysztopa of The Morrissey Family Businesses and Scott Saporiti of Magnum Creative/Adams Letter Services.

While the voluntary effort to avoid idling more than 30 seconds will have its supporters, there will always be folks who don’t buy it or think it’s senseless, as evidenced by the comments on the story.

As someone told me last month, even one person or one story makes a difference. So I’ll leave you with that thought.

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