CLINICS

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Drive Better, Maintain and Save, Drive Less! (Webinar)

This engaging webinar, brought to you by Green Communities Canada and Summerhill’s Shuttle Challenge, provides practical advice on how to improve improve your driving habits, save money, and reduce traffic congestion all at once. The webinar is available to all Clean Air Commute participating workplaces. Click here to learn more about Green Communities Canada.

Does Telecommuting Make you Invisible? (Webinar)

Telecommuting is one clear way to traffic congestion, but does working remotely help or hinder your position and prospects within an organization? Rather than providing standard answers to this complex question, this webinar from New Horizons discusses the three primary considerations for addressing this question. Consider telecommuting within the context of your company’s culture and individual productivities in this engaging hour-long discussion. This webinar is available to all Clean Air Commute participating workplaces.

Make the Move – Staying Physically Active at Work (Webinar)

Join the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety for a webinar with Angela Torry from the Alberta Centre for Active Living and Lindsay Wright from Be Fit For Life. This session will outline steps and activities that workplaces can lead, promote or support to help employees become more physically active during work hours and work breaks. Get ready to think outside the box when it comes to getting your workers moving! You’ll come away motivated and armed with fresh ideas to try out at your workplace. This webinar is available to all Clean Air Commute participating workplaces.

Tips for Setting up a Successful Office Carpool (Webinar)

All you ever wanted to know about carpooling but were afraid to ask. Finding someone to share a ride to and from work is a great way to cut travel costs while reducing your impact on the environment. Thanks to online tools such as www.CarpoolZone.ca, finding someone who takes a similar route is a lot easier these days. But what happens next, once you make initial contact with someone to initiate a carpool? This webinar will reveal the keys to of a successful carpool! This webinar is available to all Clean Air Commute participating workplaces.

Safe Cycling – Biking in the City (Clinic)

Cycle Toronto’s interactive Street Smarts workshops cover the benefits of commuting by bicycle, laws that govern cyclists and motorists, techniques for safe street riding, basic bike maintenance, route selections, and more. We also provide copies of our Toronto Cyclists Handbook and bike maps, where possible. This workshop is suitable for novice or hesitant riders, seasoned commuters looking to bolster their knowledge, and drivers interested in the cyclist perspective. Cycle Toronto is the city’s only member-based cycling advocacy organization; with over 2,300 members as of 2012, they’re working to create safer streets. This clinic is available on a limited basis across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area.

EcoDriver (Clinic)

Rising fuel prices got you down? Learn the little things that save in a big way at the pump. If you have to drive, then this clinic is for you. Learn about more efficient driving techniques, car maintenance and startling facts about what comes out of your tailpipe. EcoDriver provides practical and easy to follow tips to save the average driver up to 35% in fuel costs and green house gas emissions. This clinic is available on a limited basis across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. Learn more at EcoDriver.

Nordic Walking (Clinic)

Get moving with this Nordic Pole Walking clinic that lets you try the fastest growing global sporting activity globally. Find out how you can work 90% of your body muscles in just one exercise. This low impact, easy-to-do activity has tremendous benefits and is ideal for walking back and forth to work. Increase calorie burn, reduce neck and back pain, bump up your heart rate (and more), just by adding a set of poles to your walk. Over 15 million Europeans are Nordic Pole Walking, and so could you! All poles are provided for the clinic; no need for workout gear, just comfortable shoes. This clinic is available on a limited basis across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area.