The City of Independence announced public input meetings on the city’s public transit system. The meetings will be Thursday, September 4 from 3 PM to 5 PM, and Saturday, September 6, from 10 AM to noon. The meetings will be held in Conference Room D on the lower level of City Hall.
I plan to attend [...]
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Independence to discuss public transit
Posted in bicycle friendly, cost of fuel, municipal services, neighborhood, transportation policy, urban renewal, vision, tagged bicycle friendly, bicycling, public transit, traditional neighborhood design, urban renewal, walkability, walking on September 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Support alternative transportation
Posted in all politics is local, bicycle friendly, cost of fuel, economy, energy policy, neighborhood, transportation policy, urban renewal, vision, tagged bicycling, transportation, transportation policy, walking, walkscore on August 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
WalkScore.com is teaming up with Transportation for America to gather an online petition to support alternative transportation in the 2009 Transportation bill in Congress.
Transportation for America has a strong vision for national transportation policy: build world-class rail-based mass transit, repair and maintain the highways and bridges we have, and improve our health by [...]
Procter Neighborhood Recycling Project
Posted in Procter neighborhood, cost of fuel, fuel efficiency, karma offset, municipal services, neighborhood, recycling, tagged karma offset, Procter neighborhood, recycling on July 19, 2008 | 9 Comments »
[Update: Check out the Procter Neighborhood Website for the latest on Procter Recycles.]
We got off to a great start! Three neighbors joined me in recycling in our first week, bringing our MPG-per-household up from 20 to 80! Instead of each of us making the five-mile round trip to the 35th St recycling center, we sent four [...]
Karma Offset: Update
Posted in Procter neighborhood, cost of fuel, fuel efficiency, karma offset, municipal services, neighborhood, recycling, tagged cost of fuel, fuel efficiency, karma offset, municipal services, neighborhood, Procter neighborhood, recycling on July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have not been getting along with the publishing software, so here’s a reposting of the plan until I can get a permanent page published. It was great to meet everyone yesterday! Thanks go to Greg Kline for volunteering to help out!
I’ll start with a confession: I love my pickup. It’s not new, and it was a very [...]
The path forward for energy policy
Posted in all politics is local, cost of fuel, economy, energy policy, tagged CFTC, commodities, futures trading, Michael Greenberger, NYMEX, speculation, West Texas Intermediate, WTI on July 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As several news reports have indicated, the notion is gaining steam that speculation in the U.S. commodities market has had an inflationary effect on oil prices. The current conventional wisdom is that 70% of the oil trades are made by financial players. If commodities speculation has taken center stage, the spotlight is on loopholes such as the notorious “Enron [...]
