EnigManiac
04-09-07, 09:22 AM
http://www.thestar.com/article/200643
Living Car Free - The Greenest City In The USA
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becnal
04-09-07, 09:50 AM
Well, if I'm ever FORCED to move back to the US, I now know where I'll go. Though Canada is more likely. :D
mwrobe1
04-09-07, 09:58 AM
Then there is Vermont's annual Green Up Day in May, when tens of thousands of Vermonters pour outside to clean up their roadsides. This initiative, the first of its kind by a U.S. state, has been an annual rite for more than three decades.
See now I don't understand this. I would gladly volunteer a few hours a month to do this. And I don't necessarily consider myself to be an environmental activist either. I absolutely HATE seeing the barrage of weeds, glass, and other junk at the side of the road...especially on overpasses that I travel on with my bike.
See now I don't understand this. I would gladly volunteer a few hours a month to do this. And I don't necessarily consider myself to be an environmental activist either. I absolutely HATE seeing the barrage of weeds, glass, and other junk at the side of the road...especially on overpasses that I travel on with my bike.
kjohnnytarr
04-09-07, 10:11 AM
I love how it's a picture of a bunch of overweight people standing in front of a traffic jam. :rolleyes:
Sorry, but just because they whine about the environment and get a write up in an old-farts' rag, doesn't really make them a superior society. It just makes them trendy.
Sorry, but just because they whine about the environment and get a write up in an old-farts' rag, doesn't really make them a superior society. It just makes them trendy.
cosmo starr
04-09-07, 10:25 AM
^^^ but i really like the way environmental is becoming trendy
Roody
04-09-07, 11:45 AM
According to Bert Sperling, best known for his studies of the best places to live, Burlington is greenest because 5.6 per cent of the population walks to work, 4.6 per cent work from home, and 12.3 per cent carpool when they commute.
Does anybody know how many of these trips are by bike? If I remember right, Burlington is very hilly, even the Central Business District is on a big hill. And of course the weather is pretty cold in the winter.
The metropolitan area of about 147,000 has 16 farmers' markets, five organic producers and three food co-ops.
I've read elsewhere that Burlington grows more than 10 % of it's own food -- within the city limits. That's incredible!
Does anybody know how many of these trips are by bike? If I remember right, Burlington is very hilly, even the Central Business District is on a big hill. And of course the weather is pretty cold in the winter.
The metropolitan area of about 147,000 has 16 farmers' markets, five organic producers and three food co-ops.
I've read elsewhere that Burlington grows more than 10 % of it's own food -- within the city limits. That's incredible!
Roody
04-09-07, 11:55 AM
I love how it's a picture of a bunch of overweight people standing in front of a traffic jam. :rolleyes:
Sorry, but just because they whine about the environment and get a write up in an old-farts' rag, doesn't really make them a superior society. It just makes them trendy.
As opposed to those who whine about trendiness on an internet forum? I mean what's your point? Environmental activists are inferior because they're suddenly "trendy"? Zheeesh.
I've got news:
First, "whiners" are the people who get things done in this world, mainly because their whining finally convinces others that their cause is right, at which point the cause becomes trendy.
Second, Vermont has a long history of effective whining--starting with those trendy whiners in the American Revolution, the Green Mountain Boys.
Sorry, but just because they whine about the environment and get a write up in an old-farts' rag, doesn't really make them a superior society. It just makes them trendy.
As opposed to those who whine about trendiness on an internet forum? I mean what's your point? Environmental activists are inferior because they're suddenly "trendy"? Zheeesh.
I've got news:
First, "whiners" are the people who get things done in this world, mainly because their whining finally convinces others that their cause is right, at which point the cause becomes trendy.
Second, Vermont has a long history of effective whining--starting with those trendy whiners in the American Revolution, the Green Mountain Boys.
kjohnnytarr
04-09-07, 03:30 PM
As opposed to those who whine about trendiness on an internet forum? I mean what's your point? Environmental activists are inferior because they're suddenly "trendy"? Zheeesh.
Oh for ****s sake. I wasn't whining, and I definitely wasn't whining about trendiness. Lord knows I'm a trendy little sucker myself.
I'm just saying, the city may be green, but it still doesn't look like a place I'd like to live.
Oh for ****s sake. I wasn't whining, and I definitely wasn't whining about trendiness. Lord knows I'm a trendy little sucker myself.
I'm just saying, the city may be green, but it still doesn't look like a place I'd like to live.
Roody
04-10-07, 12:58 PM
Oh for ****s sake. I wasn't whining, and I definitely wasn't whining about trendiness. Lord knows I'm a trendy little sucker myself.
I'm just saying, the city may be green, but it still doesn't look like a place I'd like to live.
Well if I can't whine about you whining about other people whining, what can I whine about?:lol:
I'm just saying, the city may be green, but it still doesn't look like a place I'd like to live.
Well if I can't whine about you whining about other people whining, what can I whine about?:lol: