Focus the Nation is a national effort calling for greater action, education, and awareness of global warming. From their website… Focus the Nation will culminate January 31st, 2008 in simultaneous educational symposia held across the country. Our intent is to move America beyond fatalism to a determination to face up to this civilizational challenge, the [...]
Lewis Days, Durham’s “Bike Man,” has been profiled by the Herald Sun (see bottom of this post), Bicycling magazine, and now ABC World News. Dec. 21, 2007 Lewis H. Days, 74, is a hero to kids in his Durham, N.C., neighborhood, and one boy gave him a nick name that stuck — Bike Man. “If [...]
Frank Hyman won’t let Columbia, SC show up Durham. So, when I posted a photo of a bad ass bike rack I saw down there, he wrote in to remind me of the Biker Bar. In his own words… (edit: this at 101 E. Geer St) photo courtesy of Frank Hyman Called “The Biker Bar”, [...]
UPDATE: I later wrote a Herald Sun Op-Ed on this issue. Other Durham bloggers have weighed in on the Alston Avenue widening project problem — Gary, Kevin, Barry, and Michael — and they have each noted very good reasons why NC DOT’s steamroller needs to be stopped. I’ll add one more: accountability in governance. On [...]
Phillip Barron The Herald Sun When Martin Luther King said that true peace is not merely the absence of tension, it is the presence of justice, he had in mind the idea that lasting, real peace is possible only when we actively take responsibility for it. Marv Axelrod is tired of hearing promises of peace [...]
Larry Lagarde over at RideThisBike.com is in the initial stages of discussing a Bike Train with Amtrak, and he’s surveying the country for feasible locations. He says – Last summer, Canada’s ViaRail ran a pilot Bike Train with space for 56 unboxed, fully assembled bikes from Toronto to Niagara Falls. The service was such a [...]
Bike rack in a shopping plaza parking lot, Columbia, SC.
Durham Bull Pen, a new Durham blog, has up a photo essay of a January bike ride down the American Tobacco Trail. Take a look.
In his December column for The Guardian, George Monbiot reminds us that Al Gore represented the United States at the Kyoto Protocol talks — you know, the major international summit on governments’ responsibilities to address global warming. The ones before Bali. The first ones that failed to reach any hard goals – The European Union [...]