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title: Can Your Commute Save Greenhouse Gas Emissions?
description: Can Your Commute Save Greenhouse Gas Emissions?
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# [Can Your Commute Save Greenhouse Gas Emissions?](https://www.eya.com/blog/wp/can-your-commute-save-greenhouse-gas-emissions)

 Written by [EYA Homes](https://www.eya.com/blog/author/eya-homes) | August 12, 2015

We intuitively know that commuting with public transportation is a lower-stress, eco-friendly, and healthier option. Now, WMATA provides a tool that allows you to calculate your precise impact from door-to-door.

Simply enter your starting and ending address into WMATA's [Greenhouse Gas Emissions Savings Calculator](http://planitmetro.com/greenhouse-gas-emissions-savings-calculator-2/) and out comes your total GHG savings, calories burned and suggested bus/metro route. Double these numbers for a morning and evening round-trip.

Our example: commuting round-trip from Vienna to Bethesda by public transportation every work day for a year would offset the carbon equivalent of planting 25 trees. You'd also save over 130,000 calories, the equivalent of 650 vanilla lattes.

So ride, bike or walk now to an [EYA](https://www.eya.com/) sales center near you to discover the many (measurable) benefits of life within walking distance!

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