One way of cutting the costs of owning a car, and finding ways to walk, bike, carpool and use public transit, is to create ways of having a car when you really need a car.
Now there are two operations in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area to do just that. The Pioneer Press has a story today.
Even [...]
Business North has a long feature story about the Sustainable Twin Ports “Natural Step” project and the roots of the program.
Wayne Nelson of Business North did some reporting on how using the Natural Step helped the economy of Canmore, Alberta reinvent itself after downturns in the mining industry sent the economy there into a tailspin.
Today, [...]
A Minneapolis neighborhood — Southeast Como — has a large concentration of homeowners who have invested in a relatively new method of solar energy for heating water. Take a look at the article from the Minnesota Monitor.
The Duluth News Tribune this morning ran an update on all of our projects on their front page. Read the story here.
The only other thing we’d add is that part of the excitement is the sheer number of people getting involved in all aspects of the projects: as volunteers on the teams, in brown [...]
Tallahassee, another pilot city in the Knight Creative Communities Initiative, is getting news coverage of some of its work.
Their “Greenovation” project was to develop a park and ride system for local transit. They’ve now kicked it off, with the idea that commuters can park cars near places they would run errands, such [...]
Tallahassee Democrat:
Article published Aug 28, 2007
Quality Inn allows visitors to go ‘green’
By Will Brown
DEMOCRAT STAFF WRITER
Tallahassee has its first green hotel, according to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. The Quality Inn and Suites on 2020 Apalachee Parkway was designated a green hotel by the Florida Green Lodging Program on Monday.
The program was established in [...]
As we watch other cities develop cool biking programs, we shouldn’t forget that we have a few great things already going on right here.
The first is the bike program for Duluth Transit. Yes, every bus has a bike rack on the front when it’s not the snow season. Click here for the details.
Also, several local [...]
Our fellow catalysts in Tallahassee, Florida are looking at improving the Park and Ride programs in their area.
Part of their campaign is about getting people to think about why they ride the bus. Read their op-ed from the Tallahassee Democrat.
See the posting on the KCCI Tallahassee website.
And here’s another article on the city transit folks’ [...]
Okay, so we hear an awful lot about Portland. It seems like a Brady Brunch rerun. Still, there’s some wonderful examples from the town.
It’s the top city in the U.S. in sustainability rankings.
There are hundreds of examples that we could use, but here are the first two.
Portland is home to the Urban Greenspaces Institute.
And [...]
Tacoma Washington is town a lot like Duluth, a port town whose economy has gone through a lot of change. It’s also a pilot project for Richard Florida’s Creative Communities Leadership Project, a forerunner of the Knight Creative Communities Project.
There are now lots of things going on worth taking a look at.
The Creative Tacoma website [...]
