The environmental and social costs of parking your car
So why can't we find any place to park? Because parking is one of the biggest boondoggles -- and environmental disasters -- in our country.
The impervious surfaces of parking lots accumulate pollutants, according to Bernie Engel, a professor of agricultural engineering at Purdue. Along with dust and dirt, heavy metals in the air like mercury, copper and lead settle onto the lots' surfaces in a process called dry deposition. These particles come from all kinds of diffuse sources, such as industry smokestacks, automobiles and even home gas water heaters....Engel calculates that the Tippecanoe ... Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
