FWIW/FYI, I asked the mayor last wkd at the Chili Fest to see how Ithaca can join this event as a city. She said she was putting someone on the task (this was last wkd).
I'm planning to observe Earth Hour with the Earth Hour Night Ride, starting from the loop at the end of Park Rd (across the water from Island Fitness). We'll meet between 8:15 and 8:30; ride the loop of the Cayuga Waterfront Trail, so that families can bring kids and we can have scooters, skates, skateboards, unicycles all join in. Following the loop, some people have expressed an interest in continuing with the night ride over to the commons, to end with some socializing. There will be enough bike lights and blinkers so that even those without lights will be able to do the CWT loop. (I"ve done the Montreal Tour la Nuit several times, passing through pitch black stretches and everyone can see just enough of eachother to be safe; there's some ambient light just about everywhere.) For the subsequent ride, everyone will need lights front and back. I've been cooking up events to keep bicycling visible to the community. As part of that, there is now a website, http://bikeithaca.org, where I hope the various constituencies interested in cycling and other non-motorized travel options can pool info. Check it out, comment, suggest more/different info (Leave general comments at http://bikeithaca.org/?page_id=4). Please do visit. BTW, it might not be possible to put Ithaca on the main Earth Hour map because I think their focus is on the world's biggest cities. So, in the US we have LA, NY, Atlanta, etc already shown, but no small cities whatever. Whether the absence of any small cities means anything of course I don't know. Andrejs Patricia Haines wrote: > Shall we join in? invite the Mayor to invite the City _______________________________________________ For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins Questions about the list? ask [email protected] free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
