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Re: Bear Safe Neighborhoods
2016-03-16 10:51:04 UTC
Cycling in the mountains is a much more stress-free activity if one can be assured all the bears have their heads in garbage cans in town. However in the spirit of good environmental stewardship our graphic designer came up with a c-bsm inspired poster for a campaign.
http://www.morepeoplecycling.ca/bear_about.php
Gary Beaton
Tour de Nuit Society
Canada
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Re: Canadian Environmental Leadership Awards
2014-06-06 11:34:48 UTC
Climate Change Central (or C3 as it was rebranded) closed its doors this week and ceased operations - somewhat prophetically as Archbishop Desmond Tutu was making global news about the environmental impact of Alberta's oil sands.
C3 had been trying to transition from an Alberta government institution fully funded by the taxpayers to an independent NGO adopting a fee for service model.
Climate Change Central received an Alberta Emerald Award for its environmental programing in 2011.
Despite the level of professionalism and thoroughness that characterized C3's work, the transition from a public to non-profit sector was daunting at a time when most corporations are developing high profile sustainability and environmental business units themselves.
Calgary is the corporate heart of Canada's oil and gas sector and it is also well known as the very sprawling suburban city with the Ecofootprint of New York.
The Edmonton Journal report:
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/Alberta+climate+change+profit+folds+years+after+government+pulled+funding/9899934/story.html
The last C3 media release:
http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/-1916234.htm
Gary Beaton
Calgary tour de nuit Society
Canada
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Re: Intern Hiring Pointers
2012-03-15 11:40:01 UTC
The Calgary tour de nuit Society has a generic Intern posting that can be found front and centre on our website www.morepeoplecycling.ca In this case we were prepared to tailor a job description based on the posting to successful individual applicants to our active and sustainable transportation program. We thought that this would broaden the pool and allow us to tailor projects to the skills of the student.
We adopted this approach when we found that posting multiple summer student positions on numerous university career websites was just way too tedious. Here we use a general posting to direct students to the detailed ones on our website.
Feel free to make use of this template. We found that it is a quick fix to modify the responsibilities and duties of the position and even more so the qualifications.
Gary Beaton
Calgary tour de nuit Society
Canada
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Re: Bicycle Audit Checklists
2011-03-18 12:05:36 UTC
The League of American Bicyclists' 'Bicycle Friendly America' program is an example of a marketing tool to raise awareness of cycling in various sectors including the municipal level of government. There is no data collection requirement as the basis of the "assessment". This is good tool to raise awareness but there are no research protocols that would suggest it is reliable enough for comparative or temporal accounting of the level of commuter cycling activity. The all-important mode share figure is not even part of the calculation for this award.
The cities of Copenhagen and Melbourne are now publishing regular reports on the progress towards more sustainable transportation systems in the form of bicycle accounts. The Danish reports can be downloaded from the Bicycle Victoria website (http://www.bv.com.au/general/bike-futures/42178/).
Nowhere is the importance of bicycle account audit tools more apparent than in the City of Calgary. It is Canada's fourth largest city with a population of one million but an ecological footprint the size of New York City. Just as recently as two days ago Calgary's top Transportation Planner was bragging about the city's 800 km of pathway in a boilerplate luncheon speech to professional engineers and geologists. Unfortunately it is built and maintained by another city department (Parks) and it is not designed for high speed bicycle commuting in a city with a case of terminal urban sprawl. Of the 800 km only 8.75 km is designated as bikeway but half of this is in a large inner city park (never used by bike commuters) and the other half reverts to multiple use pathway in the winter to economize on snow clearing and maintenance. If the figure is seasonally adjusted then the bikeway statistic drops to 2.1875 km. There is a 20 km/hr speed limit for bike commuters when this is a bikepath so the statistic should be further adjusted to account for that. (Assuming an average speed of 30 km/hr, I might suggest another one-third reduction.) Thus the Transportation Planners 8.75 km of bikepath is really only 1.458 km. A similar rating of the Citys 260 km of on-street bike lanes (another statistic contending for a world record) would show reality to be somewhat different when viewed from a bicycle saddle and a functional assessment tool to make sense of what can be meaningless statistics.
Gary Beaton
Calgary tour de nuit Society
Canada
www.morepeoplecycling.ca -
Re: Workplace Active Transportation Initiatives
2010-09-21 10:03:11 UTC
Hi David
Is the Regional Municipality of Waterloo using the GPS hardware from the Centre for Sustainable Transportation study of bicycle commuter travel patterns that was conducted in 2009 in the City of Winnipeg?
Gary Beaton
Calgary tour de nuit Society
Canada
www.morepeoplecycling.ca
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