Happy World Car Free Day

...re in your car. But I suppose it’s not safe for them to walk or ride their bikes to school because of all the SUV drivers like you playing chicken with pedestrians to see who can beat each other across the intersection. I could keep ranting, mentioning the things we all know, the childhood asthma rates of our polluted city, the melting polar ice caps and dying polar bears, the 39,000 traffic fatalities on American roads, and all those folks dying...

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Saturday Tweets: Cutting Through the Kudzu

...uppBdt — Urban Agriculture (@UrbanAgRRicult) August 26, 2015 Librarians on Bikes Deliver Books and WiFi to Kids in #BookDeserts Let's do this in #SantaMonica #bike #CA pic.twitter.com/fKssjWdKFC — Elena Christpoulos (@Elenach) August 25, 2015 Cutting through the myths of kudzu http://t.co/UNralznBvr via @SmithsonianMag — Root Simple (@rootsimple) August 26, 2015 L.A. City Officials Buzzing Over Urban Beekeeping Proposal http://t.co/ZnUwxviSBp...

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Saturday Linkages: Cheapskates and Controversy!

...ay Signal Bigger Problem, Researcher Says http://huff.to/18Tnzw8 Will Google Glass End Distracted Driving?: http://blog.esurance.com/will-google-glass-end-distracted-driving/#.UYSRC4KyvdI.twitter … Bikes Bicycle hackers of 1948: http://boingboing.net/2013/05/08/bicycle-hackers-of-1948.html … For these links and more, follow Root Simple on Twitter: Follow @rootsimple...

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Weekend Linkages: Happy Holidays!

...Image found in the depths of Twitter. Feeding the Poop Log: A Catalan Christmas Tradition Unhinged Victorian Christmas cards Anti-Vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s House Party Guests Told to Get Vaccinated Before Coming Oregon lost world’s biggest log cabin in spectacular 1964 fire L.A. can no longer afford to push bikes and buses aside Protect the underground!...

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