Road less traveled

Easing gas pedal enacts a principle, proves their mettle

By Nancy Shohet West, Globe Correspondent  |  March 8, 2007

Isaac Wilde was tired of hearing his parents gripe about global warming. So last fall the 6-year-old burst forth with a suggestion based on his rudimentary grasp of greenhouse gases. "Why don't we just stop using our car?"

It was an idea that took hold.

His parents, Sarah Huber and Parke Wilde of Arlington, had thought about this possibility before. "Every year on New Year's Eve, I'd resolve to use the car less," Huber said. "I always said I was going to try to cut out one or two whole days a week of driving. But we fell back on the excuse that we can't do it because we have two young children. I'd say it's too cold or too wet or too dark or they're too small to expect them to walk."

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