Here’s a climate action that doesn’t require buying anything, changing your car, or even changing your routine: just slow down. A new study found that if U.S. drivers simply followed posted speed limits, we could collectively save 6.7 million gallons of fuel, $22 million in fuel costs, and 57,000 metric tons of carbon emissions every day. And the tradeoff? For the average driver, less than one extra minute on the road each day. Sometimes small actions really do add up. Read the Anthropecene Magazine article to see just how big an impact easing off the accelerator could have.
