Community
Action
Seattle Strategic Planning Office -
http://www.ci.seattle.wa.us/planning/
Car Smart Communities Program:
http://www.cityofseattle.net/carsmart/default.htm
Car Smart Communities encourages neighborhood projects which will help us
use our cars less often for errands and other personal and family trips.
Car Free Seattle -
http://carfree_seattle.tripod.com/sea/main.html
World Car Free Day 2000 -
http://www.carbusters.ecn.cz/WCFD.htm
Great ideas from last year's event. (This year's World Car Free Day
is September 20.)
LESS TRAFFIC! -
http://www.lesstraffic.com
Street reclamation in a suitcase! Brilliant!
Portland Intersection Repair -
http://www.cityrepair.org/ir.html
An example of street painting which Car-free
Fremont hopes to replicate in Seattle.There's more to intersections than
waiting for the light to change.
The SUV Ticket -
http://www.baaction.org/SUVticket/
This humorous ticket details the problems with
SUVs. Stick it to them!
Car-free
Resources
Do you really need to
own a car? -
http://www.verdant.net/cars.htm
Earth Car Free Day
-
http://www.carfreeday.com
Carfree email list (general worldwide) -
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CarFree
Carfree_cities -
http://carfree.com
Carfree Times: (E-newsletter) -
http://www.carfree.com/cft/index.html
Essays
Carfree Living in
Perspective by Karen Sandness:
http://www.mail-archive.com/bikies@danenet.wicip.org/msg00836.html
Environmental
News
How the North is Getting
Burned
http://www.globeandmail.com/series/deathwish/0605.html
"In fact, the warming has been so
significant that the Arctic ice, which for thousands of years acted like
a thick insulating tuque keeping the entire planet on climatic course, has
begun to shrink -- alarmingly...." Global warming is a reality. Is
it too late to reverse the process? |