Wednesday Afternoon
These next couple days will be light as I prepare for this weekend’s conference. If you have a post you feel deserves attention, please send me an email and I’ll be sure to get it into today or tomorrow’s round up.
Here are five for now.
Cosmopolitan Charleston takes a look at the end of urban growth:
These people in Ohio got it goin’ on. Recognizing their paradigm of growth was dead (yours is too, you just may not know it yet) they have embraced shrinkage! Tearing up streets, razing vacant houses and creating green space is, in fact, the future of many American cities
Allison and Daniel are planning on attending this year’s Earth Day Festival at Park Circle:
This year’s festival will be waste free–everything will either be recycled or composted. With cities like San Francisco that have recycling bins dotting sidewalks like most places have trash cans, Charleston is making a noteworthy effort in becoming more environmentally conscious, and I hope events like this will encourage others to consider their environmental impact when planning their events.
What could possibly be the third thing. Oh yeah, I almost forgot–I broke my elbow on Monday. My right elbow. Did I ever mention I am right handed? I currently have a splint from my shoulder to my wrist. Next week I’ll have two rods surgically implanted to fix the elbow.
Dave Moulton addresses what he perceives as cultural differences between cyclists:
I feel obliged to respond, and my reply is too long for a simple counter comment. Mikael, you are living in a country that has a definite bicycle culture; cyclists in America are riding their bikes, and doing the best they can, in a definite automobile culture.
This is a left turn signal in Copenhagen. (Picture left.) In the US, it is entirely possible that the cyclist is not even seen, (We are invisible.) let alone such a nonchalant hand gesture.
Heather @ April 16, 2008