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Consolations at the End of the World: Climate Ride Training Update #4
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Consolations at the End of the World. Wednesday, August 28, 2013. Climate Ride Training Update #4. Climate Ride Training Update Week 15: Michigan. Sprawling SE Michigan is not a very friendly place for cyclists or pedestrians (. Paul Krugman and one of my favorite bloggers Angie Schmitt - even suggest. Doggedly get around without one. Try riding a bike here. Still, there are some bright spots. Michigan has the most rail-trail miles. Swamp forest on the eastern end of the Clinton River Trail. Crowdsourcin...
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Consolations at the End of the World: Climate Ride Training Update #3
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Consolations at the End of the World. Saturday, August 3, 2013. Climate Ride Training Update #3. Climate Ride Training Update Week 11: Sligo Creek. Sligo Creek Trail: Winding, Narrow and Forested. The trail runs about about 11 miles between Wheaton, MD and Bladensburg, MD, ending at the Anacostia River. Compared to the Capital Crescent, this trail is pretty quiet. It also requires more attention because of the constant turns and narrow, bumpy surface. CCL is also going to be training people during the Cl...
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Consolations at the End of the World: Going Green is Going Nowhere
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Consolations at the End of the World. Tuesday, May 7, 2013. Going Green is Going Nowhere. A Lacking sophistication or worldly experience; naive. b. Easily duped or deceived; gullible. Forgoing Metro, I rode by bike (recently christened "Bertha" by my friend David. Were these folks magically whisked to the Netherlands, would they simply buy more cars on their arrival because they like them so much? There is designed for bicycles. The Dutch had to push hard for this system change. By bicycle. In the US?
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Consolations at the End of the World: Climate Ride Training Update #2
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Consolations at the End of the World. Sunday, June 9, 2013. Climate Ride Training Update #2. Climate Ride Training Week 3: Taking the Long Way Home. The Washington and Old Dominion (W&OD) was my bike path when I lived in Reston, VA. It stretches 45 miles from Arlington to Purcellville in the west. I don't get on this trail much anymore now that I live closer to Maryland, but yesterday morning's overcast skies seemed like good conditions for a trek back to my old haunts. Back on the Mt. Vernon Trail.
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Consolations at the End of the World: September 2013
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Consolations at the End of the World. Saturday, September 28, 2013. Climate Ride Wrap Up. I've been to a lot of climate rallies, but this one had the best energy. Why? We weren't telling leaders that the world would be a better place with clean energy and bike/pedestrian-friendly cities, we were demonstrating. That truth by practicing it. Here are some other things I learned on the ride:. New York City Loves Bicycles. America is Beautiful and Ugly. Riding With Others Helps. Even with 200 riders I occasio...
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Consolations at the End of the World: Climate Ride Training Update #1
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Consolations at the End of the World. Saturday, May 25, 2013. Climate Ride Training Update #1. Hello there, Miyata. Name suggestions welcome. Climate Ride Training Week 1. As planes dive in your direction before touching down on the runway a few hundred feet away. It's slightly terrifying. Mom was giddy and took lots of pictures:. And checked in for her flight the next day before riding back to the house. As a climate-related aside, my colleage Keya Chatterjee at WWF has slammed. We then wound south thro...
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Consolations at the End of the World: February 2013
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Consolations at the End of the World. Saturday, February 16, 2013. What's Next for Blue-Green Relations? New York’s Consolidated Edison is facing both workforce cuts and demands on infrastructure from stronger storms. Climate change adaptation could add jobs. This is the second entry in a series. Examining the relationship between environmentalists and labor unions. Such strident defense of environmental issues was not unusual among the era’s leading labor leaders. From UAW President Walter Reu...Obama&#...
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Consolations at the End of the World: October 2012
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Consolations at the End of the World. Wednesday, October 24, 2012. Animals Like Us, Part II: Bonobo Handshake. I first heard about bonobos when Peter Gabriel started making music with them, to mild ridicule from his peers, back in the early aughts. Then they came up again in the book I read last year, Sex at Dawn. Has hopefully helped somewhat to remedy that. Knowing the book was going to be about war and traumatized baby bonobo orphans, I hesitated to pick it up at first, but Woods' story is still upbea...
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Consolations at the End of the World: March 2013
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Consolations at the End of the World. Saturday, March 23, 2013. Congress: The Fool’s Errand? Last week I attended a screening of the 2009 documentary Earth Days. At the National Archives (you too can watch the whole thing here. I was particularly eager to hear Denis Hayes introduce the film. He was coordinator of the first Earth Day in 1970 and has recently established the “greenest commercial building in the world” in Seattle, the Bullitt Center. This requires comprehensive new regulations. It also ...
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Consolations at the End of the World: Open Letter to Michigan Department of Transportation
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Consolations at the End of the World. Wednesday, September 11, 2013. Open Letter to Michigan Department of Transportation. Dear Mr. Morosi,. My feelings toward Michigan’s built environment are another thing entirely. When I was a kid, I didn’t know that the way American cities - and particularly cities in Southeast Michigan - were designed was unusual from a global perspective. It seemed self-evident that the only way to get around was by car. I’m happy to see that SEMCOG is making some inroads her...
