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The strategies that Nissan and GM have announced to introduce their plug-in vehicles next year - the Leaf and the Volt - are huge in the green car world but quite tiny in the overall automotive market. The technologies used in the cars are giant leaps forward, but total sales for these vehicles will be measured in the tens of thousands for the next few years. Considering the total U.S. vehicle fleet is around 240 million vehicles, the dent will be small at first.

Still, tiny changes can add up, and that's the approach that Planet Positive is taking with their new 2020 Vision campaign. The idea is to have people share the small but positive steps that they will take in order to reduce carbon emissions and in other ways help prevent climate change. Does reading AutoblogGreen count?

British politician Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrats Leader, for example, is ditching private transportation when possible. "I barely use the car, I travel by public transport and I turn the thermostat down a degree or two, though my wife is Spanish and she has an affection for warmer homes than I do!" he said in a statement. Read more after the jump.

[Source: Planet Positive]

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