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Youth Program Goes Beyond Bicycles
By Fran Taylor, member Walk San Francisco, Mar 18, 2008
A program at Everett Middle School uses the fun of riding bikes as a launching point to make connections about building healthy community, according to Ami Puri, who conducts the group along with Elokin Orton. The program began last fall. Ami describes the project, sponsored by the Mission Beacon Center, as a “riding program where we explore zero waste, bike advocacy, food justice, gardening and composting, do-it-yourself bike mechanics, social justice, and community leadership.”
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More Than Just Riding a Bike
By Fran Taylor, Mar 18, 2008
A program that began last fall at Everett Middle School uses the fun of riding bikes to explore zero waste, bike advocacy, food justice, gardening and composting, do-it-yourself bike mechanics, social justice, and community leadership. Some of the students involved in the weekly after-school project describe it in their own words below. (Questions from cofounder Ami Puri are in parentheses with clarifications in brackets. Full story appears in Local Motion column in March Mission Dispatch.)
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Green Jobs Could Shift Transportation Priorities
By Fran Taylor, Member Walk San Francisco, Feb 15, 2008
Transportation could be on the verge of an environmental breakthrough, but only in the teeth of staunch resistance. A growing movement toward green jobs being led by organizations based in communities of color and working people could bring big changes, but it’s butting against two ominous recent developments: the EPA’s refusal to allow California to enact stricter fuel efficiency standards and the success of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in Michigan
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Housing Woes Contribute to Traffic Gridlock
By Fran Taylor, Member Walk San Francisco, Jan 15, 2008
Election battles last November spurred an alliance between housing and transportation advocates in the successful effort to pass Prop A and defeat Prop H. Prop A won new money for Muni, while the defeat of Prop H avoided massive parking garage development. The Yes on A/No on H campaign became known as “Transit, Not Traffic.”
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Threatened Hospital
Closure Raises Transportation Issues
By Fran Taylor, Member Walk San Francisco, Dec 14, 2007
It’s easy to see how transportation affects our health: most obviously in any crash or fall as we move about, more indirectly through pollution or social isolation caused by traffic and road design. But how does healthcare affect transportation?
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