It’s Bike-Bus-Walk to Work Week in Springfield. For me it’s just another week of doing what I do every day. Here’s the thing: I would not be doing it — commuting by bicycle — if it were difficult to do. Seriously. Why is it not difficult? Primarily it is not difficult because I live 3/4 [...]
Come to PechaKucha #6 this Saturday evening at 7 p.m. at the Creamery Arts Center. I’m on the program giving a talk about the 1-mile Solution. It’ll be cool. So, yeah, be there. Whatinthehellis PechaKucha? Technorati Tags: 1-mile Solution, bicycle advocacy
Move closer to your work and frequent destinations, and practice the 1-mile Solution. Otherwise? Well, this. What’s your health and well-being worth to you? Technorati Tags: 1-mile Solution, bicycle advocacy, cycling
James D. Schwartz has an interesting post from earlier this spring about the cost of owning a car in terms of your time at work. The reality isn’t pretty: Motorists works 2 hours each day to pay for a car. Bicyclists work 3.8 minutes each day to pay for their bicycles. (Obviously the costs are [...]
Make plans now to commute by means other than an automobile the week of 16-20 May. It’s cool to do it for a week. It’s truly epic to keep it up — maybe not everyday, but maybe one or two days per week. Ease your way in. Pretty soon you’ll be selling a car and [...]
One Street is highlighting a new report by professors at Rutgers and Virginia Tech comparing the rates of bicycle commuting in nine North American cities with New York City — specifically to learn what factors are leading to lagging participation in NYC and what the city might do better. (direct link to .pdf) And, so [...]
Here’s my speech about the 1-Mile Solution at Ecopalooza today. I kept it under 5 minutes. Yay!
Ask 18 urban volunteers to forgo using their cars for one week and what will you learn? Nothing very surprising. From The City Fix: The study found that autonomy was more important for commuters than the status or comfort associated with car ownership. “More than two-thirds of participants cited convenience, control, and flexibility—not comfort or status, [...]
Well, sort of. While not mentioned by name, the 1-Mile Solution is central to an article in USA Today today (hmmmm… or is it an article today in USA Today?). It concerns how the design of cities can ease the cost of travel. The nut graph re: the 1-MS: The way to cut back on [...]
To my way of thinking, if we addressed one issue with a true war-on intensity we would have a very real chance for positive change in the U.S. That issue is energy independence. By that I mean mostly weaning ourselves from oil imported from the Middle East. Achieving energy independence would positively affect nearly every [...]
The Ozarks New Energy Conference continues today at Plaster Student Union at Missouri State University. I was a speaker on a panel yesterday about living car-lite in Springfield. The panel included Terry Whaley, executive director of Ozark Greenways; Mike MacPherson, principal planner with the City of Springfield; and Rick Scarlet, member of the STAR Team [...]
Car-free American published a Q&A profile of me. It hit my usual hot buttons. My thanks to Bill Poindexter for the exposure! Technorati Tags: 1-mile Solution, bicycle advocacy, cycling
I’ve written before about riding to the Springfield Farmer’s Market at Battlefield Mall. We now have a new option close to home. Today I rode to the grand opening of Homegrown Foods at the corner of Pickwick and Cherry. That’s my Redline out front. And those panneirs are full of goodies grown locally. Technorati Tags: [...]
American suburbs were built for cars during a time in which it seemed oil would shoot from the ground forever. And once we knew that such was not the case, we kept building suburbs because people wanted to live in them. People were also encouraged to do so by the culture and the government. I [...]
A year ago this week my family and I drove my Ford Explorer across country for the last time. I gave the vehicle to my brother. We returned home by train and bus. We have been living “car lite” for a year. We own a 1996 Honda Civic. I drive it so little that my [...]
