What’s Your Impact? Walking

A 5% increase in the walkability of a neighborhood is associated with a per capita 32.1% increase in active travel, 6.5% fewer miles driven, 5.6% fewer grams of NOx emitted, and 5.5% fewer grams of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted. [Journal of the American Planning Association via Bikes Belong]

This shouldn’t come as a surprise to you; walking is good for us. But just because you want to walk doesn’t always mean that you live in a place with an infrastructure to support your desires for bipedalism. How walkable is your city? Find out here. And if you’re living someplace that falls on the low end of the scale, start taking a look at what your city is doing in terms of improving infrastructure. Because walking is certainly one of the more eco-friendly things we can do.