A round up of news, trends or events related to sustainability in Northeast Ohio.
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This month marks the 62nd National Bike Month started by the League of American Bicyclists, the leading advocacy group for better conditions for biking. At the time of its launch in 1956, President Eisenhower was paving the National Highway System, which emptied a lot of city streets of cars, making it an ideal time for biking in the city.
Jonathan Maskit unabashedly takes the lane on his bike commute from town, up a hill, to Denison University where he’s an associate professor of philosophy and writing a book that navigates why that deceptively simple act, of a cyclist moving from the unswept margin to the space of the road that it is allowed to be as a legally recognized...
Over the last decade, complete streets have been firmly established with urban planners, biking, transit and health advocates as a central tenet to improved access and safety on roads largely built for the convenience of cars.
“Why doesn’t Cleveland have more bike infrastructure?” my friends who are transportation cyclists ask me over drinks. “What do you mean?” I respond, telling them that Cleveland will paint 16 miles of bike lanes this year. “We don’t mean more bike lanes necessarily,” they say, adding “when we go to other cities, we see a lot of things they’re doing to encourage...more
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- If you live in Cleveland or a suburb that allows chicken raising, this workshop may be for you. https://t.co/r4eqtxkFH3
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