Presentation @ earthaven's permaculture gathering, Web Site issues

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This past weekend, at the earthaven permaculture
gathering:
http://www.earthaven.org/culture/Eventdetails/pcgathering.htm

I set up a booth in a prominent location with my
reynolds weld lab round-tube recumbent, a big sign
advertising the urls for carfreeuniverse.org and
carfreecity.us, and 10 or so sheets of paper hung on a
string like prayer flags containing various
interesting facts and other thoughts describing the
carfree movement.

The interesting facts included things like:

o Asheville, NC's Streetcar system was shut down in
the 50s by car companies (as in LA).

o The only city in the US where the Majority of
households do not own cars is the borough of Manhattan

o More people are killed in car crashes than in Wars &
sucides combined... (WHO) (was that right?)


I also included thoughts on how Earthaven could be
made more carfree and more carfree friendly.

In addition, I facilitated an "affinity group" on
"carfree ecovillages; eco travel (e.g., plane-free
travel), and carfree design and transport practices"

At its peak, the conference had 200 participants.
At the affinity group, there were 6 participants, and
many more had a chance to read and appreciate the
display (and thanked me for it!).

The US as compared to Europe and other countries is
really the "third world" when it comes to being
friendly for carfree people and things like carfree
ecovillages, and needs a lot of help.


Web site issues:
Unfortunately http://carfreecity.us is down, and has
been down for a long time!!! We need to do something
about this (David, Chris,--- We might need to host it
elsewhere...) at present it is the cornerstone of the
US carfreecity project, and when it is down all the
time, it is useless...

and especially annoying when I make a point of telling
everyone about it!
here's the stats for the two site I was advertising:
carfreecity.us:
http://uptime.openacs.org/uptime/reports.tcl?monitor_id=11162
carfreeuniverse.org:
http://uptime.openacs.org/uptime/reports.tcl?monitor_id=10544


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I also wish to mention that carfree extremism is alive
and well in the US, but as it is often combined with
computer-avoidance, it is not easily found out about
online.

Two examples I've found out about from being at
earthaven are:

(1) The Haul of Justice:
http://carfreeuniverse.org/Members/colin/HaulOfJustice

The Haul of Justice is a group of costumed cyclists
(Superheroes) who pedal around the US and DOOOO
GOOOOD! (Volunteer & provide service). 

(2) Frank Cook's walk from earthaven... He's a very
cool guy who's working on meeting all the plant
families in the world.. In any event, he's walking out
of earthaven to his next stop in Madison, CO, and a
group of us are going with him. (earlier he walked
across north carolina).

DeeDee of http://wildroots.org is also working on
organizing wild food harvesting parties-- for example
for the acorn harvest.
http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/wildroots


Carfreeness is about way more than no cars--
Clark of earthaven made the point at our affinity
circle that the Amish evaluate technology by its
effect on their family--
In addition to what I mention here:
http://carfreeuniverse.org/Members/colin/AmishAndMennonites

he added that they don't use central heating in houses
so that they must congregate around the stove.

Chris and David, what can we do about the
carfreecity.us website?

I'll be walking with frank for the next week or so, so
won't be back till then!

Colin
http://carfreeuniverse.org



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