World leaders are gathering at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen for the next 10 days to formulate solutions to global warming. This current decade is expected to be the warmest on record and this year probably the fifth hottest, according to meteorologists. So what can we do about it? One person can make a ...

  Ten METRO staffers joined the University of Houston in its Commuter Green Fair, signing up hundreds of students on the main campus for a METRO Q® Fare Card. "Here at the university, we have challenges, and we struggle with accessibility, as far as parking," said Emily Messa, assistant vice president for university ...

  Anyone who lives here knows that Houston is not a walkable city. There may be pockets of streets where you can walk from office to restaurant to dry cleaners. But there are few walking neighborhoods. A report today on National Public Radio features a family who got fed up with a long commute - and moved from the suburbs to the ...

  Starting in January, tax benefits for using public transit just got better for employee and employer. Companies can give their employees tax-free transit commuter benefits up to $115 a month, up from $110 last year. Unfortunately, the federal government still gives higher parking commuter benefits -up to $220 a month, an increase of $5 ...

  Not all mass transit reduces greenhouse gas emissions. Take commercial flights, for example. Airplanes contribute about 3 percent of the world's total emissions. That's a small but still notable contribution to the global warming effect triggered by humans. In fact, about three tons of carbon dioxide are produced for every ...