For many organizations including the 100+ participants in the Department of Energy and Environment’s Smarter DC Challenge, sustainability is a key tenet of vision, mission and values. Earlier this month, goDCgo partnered with the Challenge to present a workshop on incorporating transportation into sustainability goals. Transportation accounted for 28% of greenhouse gas emissions in 2012 and those emissions are increasing faster than any cause, according to the EPA. So what can organizations do to facilitate change?...

You're probably wondering, what is PARK(ing) Day? Is goDCgo encouraging us to drive now? Actually, it's the exact opposite! Held the third Friday in September, PARK(ing) Day is a day designed to encourage people to rethink how we use public space by temporarily converting metered parking spaces into parklets. As we shared last month, a parklet is a conversion of on-street parking into a mini park or oasis, community seating area, picnic area, art pop-up, play space, outdoor reading room, or any other alternative usage besides parking a car....