Today is Carfree Day - Watch Parking Day Video

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NEWSFLASH: TODAY IS WORLD CARFREE DAY

NEW YORK, NY -
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Transportation Alternatives reports during this year's foray into PARKing Day there were over 50 parking spaces temporarily reclaimed throughout the city, nearly doubling last year's total. I'll say this: that's a lot of freaking sod!!

As usual for these things, the fare ran from the wildly creative to the calm & soothing. There was a meditation garden in Williamsburg, origami being folded at The Open Planning Project's spot, and a bevy of spots with an advocacy theme. But the strangest time-continuum alternative-universe event occurred at Peter Frishauf's spot on the Upper West Side where I filmed him following the live blogging on Streetsblog about PARKing Day! And finally, although my work comrades had an amazingly elaborate spot, if I had to vote this year's winner it would be the Lower East Side Girl's Club. Again. You guys rock.

This year my travels took me to four of the five boros: biked 43 miles, filmed 22 spots, spent 11 hours outdoors and had one bike crash - while I was walking my bike through Times Square. Go figure!

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Cycology Today Cable Access Show

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BEAVERTON, Ore. - This is a 60-minute cable access program I participated in on Tuesday. I enjoyed and was inspired by the main guests from B.I.K.E. River City Bicycles Cyclisme Team and their coach John Beninati. What's more you can see my five minutes of cable access fame as part of the "Events Corner" (26-minutes into the show).

"Cycology Today" (CYCT) is the new name for "NW Cycling" TV show produced through Washington County Oregon. Host, Executive Producer and Owner of the show Bruce Buffington and co-host Ann Morrow spend an hour to help inform, educate and entertain the Bicycling community. Dennis Gleason is the Associate Producer and Executive Director for this program and Dark Wing Productions provides the Direction and Production services. CYCT is produced using the facilities at TVCTV in Beaverton Oregon. Please provide feed back, both positive and negative, but please be appropriate, so that we can make updates to make the show better. Thank you, Cycology Today Management Team

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Drill Baby Drill at the RNC

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St. Paul, MN - Watch as the GOP faithful go orgasmic over the prospect of giving away more oil fields to Exxon.  

But don't be surprised if they fail to do any drilling any time soon.  Oil supply and profits are just about perfect, thank you very much.

Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and Sarah Palin will mention that, of course.  Nor will they mention that their ticket is bought and paid for by big oil.

This video has obviously been edited for effect.  Link below if you would like to see raw footage.  It's just as scary, if not more so.  http://pdxk.com/media/rnc-giuliani-drill-baby-drill.mov

Download and make your very own "Drill-Baby-Drill" mash up.  It's fun AND frightening!

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Bikes, Energy and Politics - Vote Obama

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Yes, there is a big difference between republicans and democrats, Barack Obama and John McCain, when it comes to the use of our energy resources.  

We must change our dependency on petroleum now on a personal level, locally and nationally.  Voting for Barack Obama and the Democratic Party is a move in the right direction.  I strongly encourage you to register and vote in the upcoming election.

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Bike Commute Challenge

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The Bike Commute Challenge is a friendly competition — workplace against workplace — to see who can get more people biking to work in September. Any business, non-profit or public agency is eligible to participate — and individual cyclists can also participate on their own. Businesses and non-profits compete in one category, while public agencies and bike shops each compete in a category of their own. Within those categories, workplaces are divided by number of employees, to keep competition fair.


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