Category: environment
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Buy every person in our state a bike! (Seattle Bike Blog)
Sad but true: …spend $300 per state resident to build a tunnel that would only help 47,000 car drivers while causing injury or death to an unknown number of people walking or bicycling in downtown Seattle. Instead of a tunnel, let’s buy every person in our state a bike | Seattle Bike Blog.
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What is the Carbon Zero project?
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1910818917/carbon-zero-a-short-tour-of-your-citys-future
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Bike Lanes on Northwest (Bellingham)
This was forwarded from Dan who organized the recent meeting at city hall: Good day, here’s a little update on what’s happening around getting bike lanes on Northwest Ave., Elm St. and Dupont St. and three simple things you can do to help make it happen. The short version of how you can help: Send…
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Non-plastic pop bottles?
This is pretty cool. I really like the idea of non-plastic consumables. http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/16/2138214/Pepsi-Moving-To-Bottles-Made-of-Plant-Material
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Computing in a Post Peak Oil World?
I’ve been paying some attention to the notions of community, local economy and self reliance in the face of rising gas prices. Oil shortages and actually, any resource shortage, can also affect how we use computers. High energy prices makes computing more precious. Lack of resources to construct platic, rare earths for constructing magnetic componentry,…
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Inverviews on Peak Oil
Below is a 20 minute video featuring interviews with Noam Champsky and Bill Mckibben and others on why the US seems legally bound and why CEOs may be too frightened to honestly confront peak oil and climate change.
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Women’s Domestic Freedom…from Cars
This article by Elly Blue describes a confused world full of sexism, angry drivers and confused cyclists. I often forget about the strong sports and athletic emphasis in the cycling world–mostly because I don’t really pay attention to the sports side of it. Women are still touted as sex objects in the cycling world. Sports seems to cloud…
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800 Million parking spaces have an environmental impact (ABC News)
Everyone takes parking spaces for granted. What if they were used for something…green? Productive? More shops with MUP trails to them? Article discusses interesting concept about impact of how many parking spaces per car there are. No Such Thing As Free Parking – ABC News.
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Bellingham nurse practitioner bicycles! (bellinghamherald.com)
Jody Hoppis is a great example of why Bellingham is 10th in the nation for bicycle commuting. She should be a great inspiration to other mothers in Bellingham to at least bicycle their kids to the grocery store more often. I got around all winter last year on my mountain bike. Getting around this winter might…
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