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<div>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), ...
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<div>Why is it hard to take advantage of the CO-OPs offer living on the south side of Hwy. 8?</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/24/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Joe Campbell</b> <<a href="mailto:joekc@adelphia.net">joekc@adelphia.net</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">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.
<br><br>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?
<br><br>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?
<br><br>--<br>Joe Campbell<br><br>---- Nils Peterson <<a href="mailto:nils_peterson@wsu.edu">nils_peterson@wsu.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br>=============<br>I'm not too surprised that there was not an outpouring of personal actions
<br>to my previous question -- I'm about immobilized by the challenge as well.<br><br>Carbon neutral is an interesting concept, but knowing if something is carbon<br>neutral is hard, and, given that most things include a transportation
<br>element, its going to be hard to be neutral.<br><br>Megan's veggie idea, as subsequently modified by other suggestions is one<br>that resonates for me -- eat lower on the carbon input chain, which means<br>eat local. That's something I can work on.
<br><br>SO now, I want to move the discussion out a level, what are WE, as Moscow,<br>gonna do?<br><br>I got a piece of good news last night, PCEI has converted a vehicle to<br>bio-diesel and they are talking about how to work with other fleets in town
<br>to convert them, and have a local bio-diesel supply. I know a couple other<br>bio-diesel drivers around already and having a supply closer than Lewiston<br>would be welcome news to them.<br><br>The COOP gives a discount for getting there by foot. One of the businesses
<br>in Alturas Park (Anatech maybe?) gives employees a financial incentive per<br>mile that they travel to work by foot power. WSU & UI run a bus between the<br>campuses and its free to students and employees (but UI almost cut the
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