Post-Gazette: The Next Page: Living the car-free life (for a while)

The results of a two-month experiment in getting around without my internal combustion engine Living a green life wasn’t my conscious goal when I moved to the Central North Side in 1998 and began commuting Downtown on foot. I simply didn’t want to pay to park. I saved on gas and insurance, too, and walked at least an hour a day. As my green consciousness grew, like the rest of the country’s, it became a calling. I reused then recycled everything possible, I began to compost, got a rain barrel