[Vision2020] Inconvenient Truth -- What WE gonna do

[Ted Moffett]

All-

The Moscow Food CO-OP's "twenty human powered shopping trips of five dollars
or more for a five dollar discount" card applies to all human powered
transportation, walking, biking, running, skateboarding, blades, wheel
chairs (don't forget the wheel chair racers at Bloomsday beat the fastest
runners), ...

Why is it hard to take advantage of the CO-OPs offer living on the south
side of Hwy. 8?

Ted Moffett


On 8/24/06, Joe Campbell <joekc at adelphia.net> wrote:
>
> I think the most important thing that we can do as a community is increase
> and encourage alternative forms of transportation. I don't have any answers
> but I do have some more detailed questions.
>
> I've always been a big walker but in my present location I walk far less
> than I ever did. If you live on the south side of Rt. 8, as I do, it is
> difficult to take advantage of the Co-ops wonderful offer. What can we do to
> increase and encourage more walking and bike riding in town, especially from
> the south and east to the downtown area?
>
> Similarly, I take the bus to work -- from Moscow to WSU -- pretty often.
> But I rarely ride the bus in town. There are two bus stops near my house and
> I know where they are but I still don't make use of that option. And I doubt
> that I'm atypical in this regard. How can we inform people about the Moscow
> bus schedule and encourage folks to use that form of transportation?
>
> --
> Joe Campbell
>
> ---- Nils Peterson <nils_peterson at wsu.edu> wrote:
>
> =============
> I'm not too surprised that there was not an outpouring of personal actions
> to my previous question -- I'm about immobilized by the challenge as well.
>
> Carbon neutral is an interesting concept, but knowing if something is
> carbon
> neutral is hard, and, given that most things include a transportation
> element, its going to be hard to be neutral.
>
> Megan's veggie idea, as subsequently modified by other suggestions is one
> that resonates for me -- eat lower on the carbon input chain, which means
> eat local. That's something I can work on.
>
> SO now,  I want to move the discussion out a level, what are WE, as
> Moscow,
> gonna do?
>
> I got a piece of good news last night, PCEI has converted a vehicle to
> bio-diesel and they are talking about how to work with other fleets in
> town
> to convert them, and have a local bio-diesel supply. I know a couple other
> bio-diesel drivers around already and having a supply closer than Lewiston
> would be welcome news to them.
>
> The COOP gives a discount for getting there by foot. One of the businesses
> in Alturas Park (Anatech maybe?) gives employees a financial incentive per
> mile that they travel to work by foot power. WSU & UI run a bus between
> the
> campuses and its free to students and employees (but UI almost cut the
> service this summer -- sad statement on their green commitment)
>
> What else can we, in whatever collective groups, begin doing?
>
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