Steph’s gotten a bunch of conference presentations up on Slideshare, and I’m having a great time going through and watching them — I hardly got to see any in person, so it’s nice to see what folks were talking about all week. Here’s the link:
http://www.slideshare.net/TCC08/
You can make your presentation from the conference available up there as well by sending it to steph dot routh at gmail dot com.
On Monday after the conference I was in San Francisco and I went and watched the casual carpooling at one of the popular pick-up points, College and Claremont in Oakland. In an hour and a half 49 carpools were formed, giving rides to 112 people, none of which was pre-arranged.
For more about this I have put more detail under ‘Pages/Share your work’, click on this link:
http://www.livablestreets.com/projects/carfree08/flexible-carpooling
- Paul
We got a lot of questions about our tote bags and volunteer tee shirts. Here are the details on where they came from, and some more about the cool local businesses that hooked us up.
The sharp volunteer t-shirts were made by Sonadei, a new Seattle-based bike wear company that approached us with great enthusiasm and support just as we were about to give in and buy some very boring volunteer shirts indeed. They are offering these shirts on their website for $20 USD plus shipping. Here is the product link.
The tote bags are another great story. They were handmade individually by Elaine Loving of Reuseable Solutions in Hillsboro, a suburb of Portland. She finds discarded fabric that is on its way to the landfill — remnants, curtains, sheets, whatever she can find — and gives it a new life in the form of these beautiful tote bags. We commissioned 400 of them for the conference and silkscreened them by hand (along with those more varied t-shirts that were on sale throughout the conference) over two long evenings in Gregg and Nikki’s backyard. You can buy Elaine’s bags online — though not, unfortunately, with our image on them. They are $15.99 and ship for free if you’re in the US.
The carfree logo, you know, the one that makes you feel like you were just at a rock festival rather than a transportation conference, was designed by Portland artists Justin Gorman and Caleb Freese.
