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Workshop focuses on carbon footprints

Daily Journal of Commerce
By Sam Bennett
01 May 2009

At Thursday’s Carbon Footprint Workshop for Business, Kaleb Miller was hoping to pick up a few tips on going green.

Miller, the marketing manager for Zipcar in Portland, said his office already has taken measures to reduce its carbon footprint but that he is looking for new ones. Zipcar is a company that allows members to rent cars in downtown and the metropolitan area by the hour.

“Nobody drives to work,” Miller said of the Zipcar staff. Instead, the employees are given transit passes, and more than half bike to work. None of the nine employees of Zipcar in Portland actually owns a car, he said.

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