I'm about to admit something slightly embarrassing...long past my teenage years, I'm just now learning to drive. Sure, I have a bevy of ready-made excuses--I worked two part-time jobs in high school along with a heavy courseload and didn't really have the time or the inclination to learn then; I've always gotten around via public transportation perfectly well wherever I've lived and in fact have grown to love the odd space of me-time a bus or subway commute affords; I lived in New York City for 7 years; I believe the best way to learn a city is to walk it, and so on and so forth--but as the old bard sang, the hour's getting late.

So I find myself behind the wheel, nudging into traffic, muttering something tangentially related to YouTube every now and again so that the teenagers in the backseat don't think time's completely passed me by. And as I learn, I Google things like "help me make left turns" and "brakes, how to apply" in an admittedly disjointed search for knowledge. On one such sally this past weekend, I happened upon a great article from the Sunday Boston Globe, which I'll happily link here.

What a pleasure, especially this Earth Day week, to read that a big box like UPS is thinking of the big picture! At Catchlight, we aim to do the same through promotion of green driving practices during weekly safety checkins and biweekly painters' meetings. We vanpool to and from jobsites, encourage defensive driving, and I'd be willing to bet we're the only Boston painting contractor whose chief estimator walks to work AND drives a company Prius to jobsites.