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via GOOD | New ‘Slow Zones’ Make NYC Streets Safer and Greener
“This week, New York City opened its first neighborhood slow zone, a six-block-square area of the Bronx where the speed limit is now 20 mph, compared to 30 in the rest of the city….The neighborhood is mostly residential, with a high concentration of schools and a history of injuries and fatalities. The city’s transportation commission, Janette Sadik-Khan, spoke at the opening ceremony for slow zone about how it will make the streets safer. But it will also make them greener: slower speed limits make roads more accessible to anyone not in a car….
The real triumph of slow zones is that they acknowledge that streets don’t need to be reserved for cars. The more they’re used for other forms for transportation, the more people will feel safe trading in one form of wheels for another….Green transportation advocates support measures like traffic calming and slow zones because they open up the streets and indirectly promote the use of alternative forms of transportation.”

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via GOOD | New York Turns the Spotlight on North Brooklyn’s Creative Communities
“Love them or hate them, it’s undeniable that the North Brooklyn neighborhoods Williamsburg and Greenpoint have served as a laboratory of creativity for longer than a decade. Urban activists in the trendy enclaves have created models for more collaborative, locally focused economies, mapping out a blueprint for a sustainable approach to urban life. Amplify Brooklyn, an exhibit and event series officially opening tonight, will explore the work and ideas generated in those neighborhoods. Workshops will showcase organizations like Green Map System, which uses mapping to promote sustainable community development, and ioby, a social media and fundraising site for activists that’s debuting a new toolkit for neighborhood problems…
The exhibit is part of a two-year initiative called Amplifying Creative Communities, which investigated Manhattan’ Lower East Side last year before shifting the focus across the East River for this year’s Amplify Brooklyn. Graduate students and faculty affiliated with Parsons’ Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability Lab interviewed leaders from 30 different community organizations about socially innovative solutions to urban problems, from community gardening to alternative transportation….”

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Occupy Wall Street Protesters Keep Things Heated With Bicycle-Powered Generators
“As the days get colder, things are heating up at Occupy Wall Street in Zuccotti Park — or at least they will have to soon. After experiencing the year’s first snow, protesters have been bundling up next to fuel and diesel generators to stay warm. However, the NYPD and FDNY confiscated the generators on Saturday due to fire safety hazards, and since then, the protesters have turned to alternative energy to keep things moving, literally. Bicycle generators are being brought in, purchased, and even constructed right in the park, just in time to stay on top of the winter weather.”
I wonder if there is a way that energy generated from a daily bike commuter could be transferred into energy? It could be the first reverse-electric vehicle, providing energy instead of using it!

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Taming the mean streets: A talk with NYC transportation chief Janette Sadik-Khan.grist.org, 21.12.10.

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