Jan is making a virtual show this Thursday March 10th. Check it out:
"Please join us.
In February, the River Road Community Organization's monthly meeting was about widening beltline, good idea or not? Of course, many people are opposed to widening beltline.
Cars are an iconic product of our consumer culture and they are an enormously important part of this economy. Cars and their needs employ millions of people. They are difficult to live without. By intention.
And cars are ruining the planet and the built infrastructure and lifestyles cars require severely damage many aspects of our well being from the personal level and beyond.
From our neighborhood meeting, I was asked to make a presentation to describe alternatives to the car culture, and by extension, the consumer culture.
That presentation is this Thursday, March 10 at 7 PM. Zoom. Here is the log in.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89553673085
Meeting ID: 895 5367 3085
Passcode: 990252
The presentation will focus on practical doable actions, many people can make in their own lives and even better, with friends and neighbors for reducing the use and number of cars. Some actions will take time, better sooner than later. We have generations of urban planning devoted to cars and consumer social engineering to repair.
The car culture is not an isolated condition. It is a major branch of the consumer culture tree. The presentation will focus on the trunk but it will put emphasis on reducing the need for cars. Are there simple and easy solutions? Not for a lot of people, but I will describe individuals and groups who are already spending much of their time in a preferred future where cars do not dictate as they do now.
Important, the projects, tools and strategies useful for moving away from cars can address many other worrisome issues like climate change, social disequity, eco footprints and more, all at the same time.
A core ideal, preference for the well being of people and planet rather than lotsa stuff."
They are working on alternatives to cars in the suburbs.
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