JUNE 1, 2024

Wayne Michaud, executive director of Green Driving America, was a Zoom webinar presenter at the PacNorthwest Driver & Traffic Safety Virtual Conference.

 

The virtual workshop was organized by the Oregon Department of Transportation's Transportation Safety division and by the Traffic Safety Education program at Western Oregon University. Wayne, as one of six presenters, presented Smart Driving from the Start© before an audience of Oregon and Washington driver educators in consideration of implementing a funded project in one or both states in 2025.

APRIL 30, 2024

Wayne was presented with a Certificate of Recognition at the San Mateo County Office of Education's 2024 Sustainable and Climate-Ready Schools Challenge Symposium.

 

Wayne was joined by Gay Buckland-Murray, Carlmont High School principal, at the event in Redwood City, CA, following a Green Driving America Schools Are Not Drive-Thrus© idle-free campaign at the school in the 2022-23 school year. The campaign was lead by the school’s Green Team which included the conducting of initial and final measuring of vehicle idling, resulting in a 75% reduction of idling.

APRIL 10, 2024

We welcomed an intern from University of Vermont to give The Clean Transportation Path© project webinar presentations in Vermont driver education and high school STEM education classes.

 

This volunteer intern, a sophomore, majors in Environmental Studies and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies. The intern states, "I am a strong advocate for the shift to energy-efficient vehicles and the widespread use of public transportation, so as to limit individual and community impacts on climate change and air quality." This is Green Driving America's fifth intern presenter since 2021. Volunteer interns, while not considered organization employees, are paid a stipend for each presentation.