Join the Movement for Choice and Change
- Come to the Caucuses! Click HERE for more information.
- Receive the CTAQC Member Bulletin e-newsletter: email ctaqc@cnt.org with "Subscribe" in the header.
- Receive CTAQC's Quarterly Newsletter via snail mail: email ctaqc@cnt.org or call (773) 278-4800 ext. 2030
- Find your Civic Footprint:
- Register to vote!
- Reduce your personal green house gas emissions. Visit Travel Matters to learn how.
- Improve local air quality. Visit Clean Air Counts to learn how.
- Track how much you walk at Walk Across Illinois.
- Endorse the Changing Direction: Transportation Choices for 2030 as a pdf OR html. Download and print the Endorsement Form and fax it to (773)278-3840 Attention: CTAQC
- Support our organization with a donation to the Center for Neighborhood Technology. Your contribution will ensure that projects like CTAQC will continue to make real policy change.
Motor vehicles are responsible for nearly half of the emissions of smog-forming NOx and VOCs in the US, according to recent EPA data. It's no wonder then that encouraging alternative transportation options is one of the key strategies of Clean Air Counts (CAC), an initiative that aims to decrease smog-forming emissions by 5 tons/day in the Chicago area.
CAC is a nonprofit initiative of the Metropolitan Mayors' Caucus, CNT, USEPA, IEPA, LEED Council, The Delta Institute, Openlands Project and others. CAC provides advice to households, businesses and municipalities about how they can decrease their contribution to smog. The program focuses on specific changes in behaviors and product choices that members can make.
Core CAC strategies for reducing smog-forming emissions include alternative transportation, energy-efficient lighting and appliances, native landscaping, and low-VOC paints, cleaning products and building materials. Members can record changes they have made in these on the website, which automatically calculates the members personal reduction of smog-forming emissions.