Undriving and Undriver Licensing

Undriving is a program of Sustainable Ballard, A Blueprint for EveryTown, USA, designed to reduce carbon emissions and oil dependency, ease congestion and parking, and encourage community connections. By increasing awareness of personal transportation choices and eliciting individualized car-trip-reduction pledges, Undriver Licensing playfully engages people to make more informed and empowered transportation choices.Our research shows that Undrivers frequently establish new transportation habits as a result of their pledge. They also consistently discover the many benefits of Undriving, some of them unexpected: less stress, more exercise, saving money, increased sense of community, more connection with the elements, no parking hassles, and even more time.Everyone’s an Undriver or potential Undriver – to get licensed, all it takes is a pledge to try making a change in the right direction, big or small, and see what you discover.

Undriving was officially launched at the 4th Annual Sustainable Ballard Festival, September 29-30, 2007. After this rousing success, we started taking Undriving on the road; check out our Calendar to see where we’ll be when.

Browse around this site - learn how the Undriver Licensing Station works. Check out the Resources for Undrivers….peruse Undriver Stories and News and add your own. And don’t miss the “Undriving Ballard” Shufflebus, our own Fred- Flintstone-style, human-powered shuttle.

T h a n k s   f o r   U n d r i v i n g !

UNDRIVING IN THE NEWS:

• Shufflebus and SB in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer

• Undriver Licensing in Buschick’s P-I blog

• Shufflebus and Undrivers on CBC TV, in an hour-long program on Seattle’s climate-change efforts (how’s your French?) (we appear near the middle)

• Undriver Licensing at ‘Focus the Nation’ in Grist

• Undriving and Sustainable Ballard in the Ballard News Tribune

THANKS!

Thanks again to King County METRO for generous support of Undriving. This project follows on the success of Ballard In Motion, conducted in 2006 by King County METRO in conjunction with the Ballard Chamber of Commerce, Groundswell NW, and Sustainable Ballard.

Thanks also to the King County Police Union’s My ID Club for loaning us equipment, and to our wonderful fiscal sponsor Urban Sparks, and to all the volunteers who have helped to shape and carry out this program.

WANT TO DO UNDRIVER LICENSING IN YOUR AREA?

We hope to start a national, even international, Undriving movement! Undriving and Undriver Licensing are licensed by Sustainable Ballard through the Creative Commons. We welcome your inquiries; please let us know how you would like to use Undriver Licensing for non-commercial purposes in your area. Undriving will spread and evolve through your creative energies and input. Write to julia {at} sustainableballard(.)org.

Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

Snafus, bugaboos, questions? Email admin {at} undriving.sustainableballard(.)org

un-drive [uhn-drahyv] verb, undrove, undriv•ing, noun, adjective
1. to travel by means other than causing and guiding the movement of a gas-powered, motorized vehicle: to undrive (ie, to walk, take the bus, ride a bike, carpool, skateboard, sail, ride an electric scooter, etc.)