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Needed: A Few Good Superheroes
Our next “Sunday Parkways” event is coming up in NE Portland on Sunday and I’m looking forward to riding the 7-mile loop with my partner (who almost never cycles, but enjoyed the last event) and my step-daughter, who is back from college for the summer. But… The event is still looking for volunteers, specifically “Intersection…
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Resilience
Via Planetizen: Back when I was a citizen representative on MPAC, my favorite question to ask as we were starting the current update of the regional transportation and land use plans (they should be done in a year or three) was: “What can we do to make our region resilient against rising energy costs and…
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There Must be a Pony in there Somewhere
A few weeks ago I attended a presentation on the Open Street Map project. It’s essentially the open source equivalent of Google Maps, where community members go out with GPS units (an iPhone will do) and map key feature (streets, buildings, etc.). This is often done in “mapping parties”, community events where many people go…