I’ve spent some time over the past few months looking at the community development page on the City of Independence website. What I’ve found is that the city has a history of preparing intelligent, well-considered plans that emphasize residential density, mixed-use architecture, bicycle friendliness, and other smart aspects of urban design.
One such plan is the [...]
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Ours is a city of great plans
Posted in Independence Square, development, municipal services, revitalization on September 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 »
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 [...]
We have a glass recycler!
Posted in Procter neighborhood, karma offset, municipal services, neighborhood, recycling, tagged environment, glass recycling, karma offset, municipal services, neighborhood, neighborhood recycling, Procter neighborhood, recycling on July 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
[Update: Check out the Procter Neighborhood Website for the latest on Procter Recycles.]
Great news, Procter Neighborhood! Bridging the Gap can accept our glass.
Here’s what they require:
Rinse… No dishes of any kind including wine glasses, plates, Pyrex, etc. No flower vases, light bulbs or flat panes of glass. No opaque colored glass.
Pretty simple.
Phase 2: Let’s convince [...]
Brush Drop-Off Co-op?
Posted in Procter neighborhood, karma offset, municipal services, neighborhood, tagged karma offset, municipal services, neighborhood, Procter neighborhood on July 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of the reasons I bought a truck was so I could easily take brush to the brush drop-off. Brush is $10 per load, on the second Saturday of the month. I don’t usually have a full load, so I’ve been paying for a yard waste pickup service that I hardly use.
Here’s what I’m willing [...]
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 [...]
Goals for a greener Independence
Posted in bicycle friendly, energy policy, municipal services, renewable energy, vision, tagged alternative energy, geothermal, photovoltaic, renewable energy, two-way metering, wind turbine on July 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Two of the greatest issues of our time will collide in the near future: the global climate crisis and the end of widely-available fossil fuels. We must have a sensible strategy to avert the coming climate crisis while ensuring our ability to grow and prosper economically.
Renewable energy at the municipal level is a grass-roots approach to [...]
Kudos for Independence’s recycling program
Posted in municipal services, recycling, tagged municipal services, power of the purse, progressive politics, recycling on July 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the past few weeks I have been pleased to see the expansion of materials accepted by the City of Independence’s recycling center.
When contracting with Deffenbaugh for recycling, the drop-off site was able to accept only PETE and HDPE plastics (resin codes 1 and 2), and they would not take plastic bags. In my house [...]
