New responsibilities in a green era - By Ted Ings, Auto University
President
This article welcomes contributions of your dealership’s best practices in
becoming a “green dealer,” - to be published online.
A crumbling ice shelf along the West Antarctic Peninsula has become the latest
poster child for global warming. It is an area of 5,600 square miles that
suggests climate change could be forcing changes back home, and in your
dealership, much sooner than scientists had predicted.
The Wilkins Ice Shelf is roughly the size of Manhattan and has been in place for
several hundred of years. Now it is collapsing and falling into the sea because
of rapid climate change in a fast-warming region of Antarctica. “The ice shelf
is hanging by a thread,” said one scientist. “We will know in the next few weeks
what its fate will be.”
It is an example of an event we don’t see very often. But it is key to
understanding how sea levels will change in the future.
As citizens of the world, it requires us to take a step back and think about our
own responsibility in this newly green age.
It’s all over the news. Your
customers know about it. Our kids in school are learning about and embracing it.
Global warming. Environmental restraints. Hybrid vehicles. $4.00 per gallon
gasoline. A diminishing oil supply. Alternative energy. “An Inconvenient Truth.”
Are we ignoring the signals? Or are we doing something about it.
Best practices - the green dealership:
Auto University invites your organization to submit your very own “best
practices,” to be published online later this year. Whether it has to do with
simply recycling, disposing of waste oils, landscaping…we want to know about it.
