What’s the Mission?
<whine>Today is the last day of the local farmers’ market, and it’s raining, and the farmers’ market is downhill, which means it’s uphill on the way back, and I’ve never yet managed to get up that hill without walking my bike.</whine>
Yeah. So, while I’m waiting for the rain to maybe clear up or just stop [...]
Architect Carolyn Steel gave a talk at TEDGlobal in July 2009 on “How food shapes our cities.” It’s just 15 minutes long; barely enough time to explain that our cities were once formed around our relationship to the food supply, but that relationship has been disrupted. And that we need to get it back.
Steel is [...]
Barring major catastrophe, I don’t think we’ll ever be entirely rid of cars. But can we create a non-car-centric society? New York Times writer seem to be coming to that conclusion.
First, Ariel Kaminer wrote in a City Critic column about the problems of NYC pedicabs (three-wheeled, human-powered cabs). Despite the fact that relatively few New [...]
The Oregonian makes it sound negative: “Residents of transit-oriented Orenco Station still driving cars to work.” The Orenco Station development in Hillsboro, just outside Portland, Oregon, was planned around the MAX light rail line as it was being built. Yet a recent survey shows that most people are still using cars to get to [...]
Today is Blog Action Day, and this year’s theme is climate change. That’s, ahem, often a hot topic. Many people still don’t believe it’s real, and others believe we don’t really need to do anything about it. Or they don’t want to do anything about it. Or they don’t know what to do about it.
Personally, [...]
I almost called this post “Cheating?” Because I felt like I was cheating during some of last week.
First, on Sunday, I messed up and forgot to not drive. Then on Monday, I had to take my daughter to an event at the local Masonic lodge. I’d thought about biking, but in the end, it came [...]
Today I messed up. I didn’t even realize I’d broken my commitment to bike to destinations within two miles of home until I was on my second car trip of the day. Silly, because I certainly could have done at least one of those errands by bike (I still haven’t figured out how to carry [...]
Today was the first day of my two-mile challenge, in which I will travel exclusively by bike or on foot within a two-mile radius of home.
I don’t plan to log all fifteen days of the challenge here, but I’ll be writing about days on which I do use my bike for something outside of my [...]
