May 2011
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My first Critical Mass
I had found out only the day before from the facebook group that the ride would be at least 30miles, if you stuck around for all of it.
fuuu~ r u srs?? The most I’d ever biked before at one time was 8-10miles—LEISURELY!
I’d also read that people rode really fast—as if it were a race. …not intimidated! or at least pretending to be..
I got to the Fountain at Balboa Park about...
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Paris Region Moves Ahead with 125 Miles of New... →
Months after regional and national officials agree to a huge plan for improving suburb-to-suburb connections, final decisions are made on future stations for Paris’ future supermetro. Completion of the initial project is planned for 2025.
In the developed world (is the USA included in this category?!), few metropolitan areas are as dependent as Paris on their public transportation networks. Of...
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31th Annual Ethnic Food Fair
This weekend, sat&sun. 28.-29.05.11. 10am–5pm. at the International Cottages in Balboa Park, San Diego. southwest of Spreckels Pavillion. (g.maps)
Might go check this out tomorrow. An excuse for a break from studying, and a nice short bike ride.
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Portland Pedal Events (June)
Zoobombing: taking kids’ bikes and racing them downhill to see who can go the farthest.
ummm yeah I might go check that out.. though going down hills really fast is something I’m always nervous about, no matter what type of apparatus I’m on.
**when I first read that word I thought it was some event where people go trespass the zoo at night and rile up the animals or...
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WatchTrailer: Moving Beyond the Automobile.
Moving Beyond the Automobile is a ten part video series which explores solutions to the problem of automobile dependency. It’s a visual handbook that will help guide policy makers, advocacy organizations, teachers, students, and others into a world that values pedestrian plazas over parking lots and train tracks over highways. Cars were then, and...
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WatchRetrofitting suburbia
Ellen Dunham-Jones fires the starting shot for the next 50 years’ big sustainable design project: retrofitting suburbia. To come: Dying malls rehabilitated, dead “big box” stores re-inhabited, parking lots transformed into thriving wetlands.
tedtalks, 01.2010.
2x the normal tedtalk length, but well worth it. Share this with your non-urban planning /...
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Safe Chemicals Act of 2011 →
Dear Miss Yee :
Thank you for writing to express your support for the “Safe Chemicals Act of 2010.” I appreciate hearing your thoughts about this legislation, and I welcome the opportunity to respond.
I agree that the United States must take a close look at reforming our nation’s chemical regulatory system to protect vulnerable populations, especially children, from...
