Posts Tagged bikes
Oksana
June 28, 2011
Did you know about the U.S. Bicycle Route System (USBRS)? It is a proposed network of regional bike routes, sort of like a bicycle equivalent of the U.S. highway system. The USBRS was proposed in 1982 by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), for the purpose of “facilitating travel between the [...]
Thor Ritz
March 30, 2010
From Green Inc: Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has announced a “major policy revision” that aims to give bicycling and walking the same policy and economic consideration as driving. “Today I want to announce a sea change,” he wrote on his blog last week. “This is the end of favoring motorized transportation at the expense of [...]
Carina
September 3, 2009
Hunter College and a host of other universities are sponsors of the Black Rock Forest Consortium. I unfortunately have never made it up there but many of our students and plenty of others from the NY/NJ/CT metropolitan area have used the space as a learning laboratory to understand the ecosystems of the forested area. It [...]
The Green Queen Bee
February 10, 2009
Start with Roots, Go Anywhere I recently caught up with an old friend (an alum of Hunter College’s esteemed media department) who put my eco-efforts to shame while telling me of his involvement with a sustainable, innovative, and downright awesome project. Justin Aguinaldo, is one in a team of engineers, scientists, designers and of course [...]