This site offers two broad, interlocking threads of information and material. The first involves all the various web-related tools that are at your service here. None of these has anything to do with Car Free Days per se, but it is important you have a good grasp of them if you are going to be able to participate effectively in this cross-boundary international cooperative undertaking. The second and greater part of what you find on this site has to do with the actual Earth Car Free Day materials and preparations. But with your permission we shall get to that in a moment. First let us introduce and explain the tools.

Navigation Aids

To get around efficiently in the couple of thousand pages that make up this site and its extensions, we suggest you begin with the Navigation Aids, which provide a rather solid introduction for new users. This first visit may take you the better part of an hour, even with a fairly fast link, but it should be well worth the investment if you wish to put these tools and materials to work for your own sustainability needs and projects.

Group Work & Distance Tools

When the other members of your team are half way around the world, when the clock is correspondingly out of synch, and when everyone has more than one project on their plate, you need to get good at distance team work. Here are some of the Group Work Tools we use to try to cope with these challenges.

Searching for more:

If you are looking for additional materials, tools or information to help you decide about or organize your Day, we suggest you try to the Search link on the menu bar. This should be particularly useful in this: having been pointed at about a dozen specialized sites, including in German, French and Italian. If you have others to suggest, we all would be grateful if you would share them with us.

Translation Help:

There are supposed to be on the order of 600 living languages on the planet, and while we are not going to be able to cope with all of them in this site, we can take advantage of a simple tool that can help with a handful, including some of those more broadly spoken. For more have a look at the section Machine Translations. Not very pretty maybe, but properly used they can help turn an indecipherable wall of words into something a bit more meaningful.

Yet Other Tools:

Studies, reports, debriefings, conferences and "more research" have been the main tools of trade of university educated policy advisors over the last decades. But there is a lot more to socio-technical problem-solving than that. See Yet Other Tools for more on this, including tools we are now going to put to work here.

Signing In:

To close out this first visit, if you are generally satisfied with what you see here, we invite you to sign in so that you can have full access to the whole of the site and its tools. For the rest, we think you should find the site and its multiple menus reasonably intuitive and user friendly. But if we have this wrong in any respect, we count on you to get in touch and let us know.