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ECO CHIC

76: E-Scooter Share Programs: Friend or Foe?

ECO CHIC

Cloud10

Natural Sciences, Arts, Fashion & Beauty, Society & Culture, Science

4.7641 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2019

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Scooters are popping up on streets across the world… big cities, campuses, and coming to just about everywhere in between. E-scooter share programs are selling the idea of the “last mile ride,” but we’re breaking down why they’re not quite living up to that promise. On this episode, we’re talking about policy concerns, emissions, but also how e-scooters could definitely serve as a climate action tool in the future. Connect with me @ecochicpodcast + @lauraediez Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:07.2

Hey all.

1:08.2

This is episode 76 of EcoSheek. Eco Ecosheek is the podcast all about practical,

1:14.3

sustainability, and climate science. I'm Laura Diaz, really happy to have you here, and I'm excited

1:20.0

to just jump into today's episode. So today we're talking about transportation, but we are

1:25.1

specifically talking about scooters. And more specifically,

1:29.3

we're talking about e-scooters, e-scooter share programs. So a situation in which you can go

1:35.1

ahead and rent an e-scooter for a short amount of time. An e-scooter is an electric scooter.

1:40.9

So not something that you are actively peddling on your own. So I first kind of want to

1:45.6

take a step back, set the scene, you know how it is. We like to first talk about transportation as a

1:50.2

whole. So the transportation sector actually makes up almost 15% of the global greenhouse gas

1:56.3

emissions, so a pretty significant portion. And it is a much larger slice of the pie when we're talking about greenhouse gas emissions

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