http://www.livablestreets.com/projects/carfree08/blog Just another weblog Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Our friends at the World Carfree Network (worldcarfree.net) have a lot on their plate these days. The organization, based in Prague, has been growing rapidly, both in membership and in the number and scope of projects their small staff takes on each year. Their primary mission is to connect ... http://www.livablestreets.com/projects/carfree08/blog/2008/09/17/world-carfree-network-needs-you/ 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 ... http://www.livablestreets.com/projects/carfree08/blog/2008/07/19/presentations-now-available/ 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 ... http://www.livablestreets.com/projects/carfree08/blog/2008/07/07/more-on-flexible-carpooling/ 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 ... http://www.livablestreets.com/projects/carfree08/blog/2008/06/26/conference-totes-and-tees/ Hello everyone!In case you didn't know, we already have two Streetfilms up from the conference...Depaving Day: http://www.streetfilms.org/archives/depaving-day/Sunday Parkways: http://www.streetfilms.org/archives/portlands-sunday-parkways/Possibly one or two others to come!       http://www.livablestreets.com/projects/carfree08/blog/2008/06/24/streetfilms-sunday-parkways/ Hi Everyone! We had an awesome time last week at the Towards Carfree Cities Conference, and it was great to meet many of you. Welcome to the Carfree Conference group that we've created here on the Livable Streets Network. This is a place where we can all stay in touch once ... http://www.livablestreets.com/projects/carfree08/blog/2008/06/23/welcome-conference-attendees/ I'm doing a little live blogging of the conference over at wrkng.net, and Streetsblog should be picking up coverage tomorrow. So far we're having a great time! http://www.livablestreets.com/projects/carfree08/blog/2008/06/17/live-blogging-the-conference/