Two floors down or one floor up, use the elevators. That’s the rule. It used to go for reducing congestion at elevators. But now it also would mean reducing your negative envirohuman impact, because when an elevator has to move you from floor to floor, a motor is moving both your weight and that of the elevator car, cables, and other mechanisms.

I made this decision originally because I was making ten to twenty trips per day between the two different floors my company occupies in a high-rise. At the beginning of the year, I decided that in order to shed a few extra pounds, I would take the stairs a majority of the time.

Most days, I make ten trips by stairs (both up and down). It was after the fact (the fact of losing a few pounds) that I realized that this new behavior in fact was improving my own envirohuman impact. Even one or two trips a day would be significant over time. Plus, you’ll stop hearing, “You could have taken the stairs,” quite so much.

Notice this recurring theme: as you lesson your envirohuman impact, you might find that many of your greener activities have the added benefit of helping build into your day the time you never seemed to have before to work out.

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