Green Team far from idle in saving fuel

From: Rocky Mountain News (2007-Current) | Date: May 19, 2007| Author: Laura Frank, Rocky Mountain News | Copyright information

Call her the anti-idler.

Laura Hoeppner is on a mission. She always considered herself something of an environmentalist. But now she's inspired after spending the past few months with members of her Green Team working on ways to spend less money and use fewer resources.

Now she wants the world to know that idling your car is one of the worst things you can do, environmentally speaking. And it's not good for your car, either.

There's just one problem with her mission.

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