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IT’S AN IDLE-FREE DRIVE TO CLEAR THE AIR ON IDLE-MYTHS. Inspire Canadians to: Save $Millions fuel / emissions Reduce greenhouse gas Improve air quality GET the ‘IDLE FREE Pace Car’ to visit your town or school ...AND WATCH THE SAVINGS ADD-UP. Highlight YOUR IDLE-FREE efforts with CLEAR ACROSS CANADA viral, not-for-profit campaign Get our IDLE-FREE App, FREE! As of May 1st. INSPIRE IDLE-FREE SCHOOLS / TOWNS. THOUSANDS OF DRIVERS CAN SEE REAL SAVINGS ADDING UP. STUDENTS APPLY MATH, CO2 EMISSIONS (SCIENCE), HEALTH IMPACTS. SCHOOLS/FAMILIES COMPETE TO SEE WHO CAN SAVE THE MOST. FOR OUR KIDS. Get IDLE-FREE Pace Car for a FREE visit. Kristina Shannon [email protected] (902) 440-6560TRANSCRIPT
IDLE-FREE DRIVE TO CLEAR THE AIR
ON IDLE-MYTHS.
ü Canadians save $Millions fuel / emissions
ü Reduce greenhouse gas ü Improve air quality
Vancouver May 1, to Halifax June 4,
NATIONAL CLEAN AIR DAY
GET the ‘IDLE FREE Pace Car’ to visit your town or school
AND WATCH THE SAVINGS
ADD-UP.
FREE!
CARBON CO-PILOTS WITH an APP / DRIVE
to CLEAR THE AIR, SAVE TONS of FUEL
& EMISSIONS.
CARBON CO-PILOTJordan McDade
IDLE-FREE GuyHockey DadRon Zima
INSPIRE IDLE-FREE SCHOOLS / TOWNS.
THOUSANDS OF DRIVERS CAN SEE REAL SAVINGS ADDING UP.
STUDENTS APPLY MATH, CO2 EMISSIONS (SCIENCE), HEALTH IMPACTS.
SCHOOLS/FAMILIES COMPETE TO SEE WHO CAN SAVE THE MOST. FOR OUR KIDS.
Get IDLE FREE App FREE May 1st IDLEFREE.org
WHERE’S IDLE FREE Guy? May 1st IDLEFREE.org
Our kids will LIKE this! TRACK our IDLE FREE Pace Car and SAVINGS
as we head for YOUR town.
COOL! LIVE Google Map.
GET INVOLVED. LET’S CLEAR THE AIR. BOOK YOUR FREE VISIT (DETAILS AHEAD).
HOST A TOWN / OR SCHOOL VISIT, TIME IS LIMITED. Have students draw ‘WHY I LOVE CLEAN AIR.’ We’ll share artwork CLEAR ACROSS CANADA, inspiring Canadians coast-to-coast. Go to IDLEFREE.org May 1, get the IDLE-FREE App. FREE! Start tracking your own IDLE-FREE savings with friends on Facebook.
HOST A VISIT. (60 minutes). School. Daycare. Community Centre.
EVENT TIMELINE:
• IDLE-FREE Pace Car arrives. • IDLE-FREE Guy stories: ’Canadian IDLER to IDLE-FREE Guy’,
‘how we discovered Rachel (poster girl) in 2007.’ • Assemble for ‘mini flash-mob’, FUN photos, video clip
(photo releases by schools required) posted to IDLEFREE.org. • Wrap up, thank you. Celebrate kids artwork if complete.
00:00 00:05
00:15
00:45
LET US TAKE YOUR PIC. SUBMIT KIDS ARTWORK.
PHOTOS / KIDS ARTWORK
WILL INSPIRE MOMS & DADS EVERYWHERE.
IDLE-myths Canadians can SAVE 3 $BILLION annually. When we’re parked.
1. IDLING is good 2. RE-starts are bad
3. Need long warm-ups
Jordan McDade VIDEO 22 yr old Dartmouth, N.S.
Dalhousie Engineering Grad
"Our kids are depending on us to take care of their future.
Doing this one SIMPLE thing
can add up to so much.”
IDLE-FREE GUY Creator, Canada’s Leading
IDLE-FREE Campaign
Ron Zima
Canada’s Leading IDLE-FREE Campaign.
It began at an elementary school in 2006.
The Children’s Clean Air Network and ‘IDLE-FREE for our kids’.
Loved by moms, kids, schools, doctors, media, car guys and bus guys.
Our IDLE-FREE Bus carried the men’s hockey teams 2010 Vancouver Olympics. See the leading Slideshare
“I made a promise to my kids to do something.”
Former radio / TV host ‘fell into’ Canada’s leading IDLE-FREE campaign.
SEE ‘A Father’s Story’
IDLE-FREE GUY Creator, Canada’s Leading
IDLE-FREE Campaign
Ron Zima
We discovered Rachel, our poster girl in 2007 at one
of our IDLE-FREE schools.
She was five. SEE ‘Rachel’s Story’
Mission To reduce greenhouse gas and improve air quality by reducing vehicle emissions.
Vision Excess vehicle emissions will become as socially unacceptable as second hand smoke.
Purpose To empower kids to transform driver behavior. Kids need a voice on climate change and poor air quality.
Strategy To partner with business, schools and media to inspire through simple and consistent messaging.
Together, we’ll engage, inspire, and empower change in a positive manner.
GET IDLE FREE Pace Car at your location on our MAP. TIMES ARE LIMITED.
Kristina Shannon [email protected] 902-440-6560
OUR IDLE-FREE DRIVE BEGINS MAY 1st!
IDLEFREE.org
We can save $MILLIONS in IDLE-time CLEAR ACROSS CANADA
‘IDLE-FREE for our kids’ when we’re parked.
TAKE REAL ACTION
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400% increase in 25 years.
‘It’s an epidemic.’
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See HERALD WHEELS feature!
See GLOBAL TV
interview!