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Barb Chamberlain @barbchamberlain
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The western US has been on fire for weeks, with unbreathable air confining people to their homes and keeping some from getting out on a bike. In other parts of the world it’s straight-up car pollution doing the same. We’re going to CLEAR THE AIR with #bikeschool #bikes4climate.
We’re heading toward Global #ClimateAction Week so you’ll see that hashtag + #bikes4climate tonight along with #bikeschool.
My hot take: Too many discussions under headlines with words like #sustainability or #climate or #green ignore bikes as clean transport.
****Q1: How have forest fires, pollution, other air quality issues affected your bicycling? Fun fact (h/t @andrealearned): Bikes invented as tool due to volcano eruption pollution. See buff.ly/2LEP6vi by @lloydalter. #bikeschool #bikes4climate #ClimateAction #bikehistory
****Q2: When the air gets really bad do you switch to transit or carpool if you bike commute, wear a mask and keep pedaling, work out inside if you ride for exercise, other? #bikeschool #bikes4climate #ClimateAction
****Q3: Are environmental benefits one of your personal motivations for bicycling? If so, how/when did that become part of your equation? With what effect on your riding? #bikeschool #bikes4climate #ClimateAction
****Q4: When you share your reasons for bicycling which one(s) resonate most with people who actually sound like they’d give it a try? Twitter only lets me put in 4 poll options so tell us about your "other". #bikeschool #bikes4climate #ClimateAction
****Q5: Not to guilt you out…. If you’re someone who #bikes4climate do you feel guilty when you drive? Tweet inspired by @schmangee comment #bikes4climate #ClimateAction #bikeschool
****Q5/more: Not a question, just letting you know we’ll switch the Guilt-o-Meter to another target with the next question. #bikeschool #bikes4climate #ClimateAction
****Q6: Is your city or state leadership committed to #ClimateAction #ActOnClimate, reduction of greenhouse gas emissions? Do they invest in bike infrastructure & tie that to enviro benefits of clean transportation? #bikeschool #bikes4climate #ClimateAction #Cities4Climate
A6: Here’s a thought--you could RT #bikeschool Q6, tag people you want to get thinking about #bikes4climate #cities4climate #states4climate #ClimateAction
****Q7: Ever contacted elected officials or public agency staff working on enviro issues to ask them to speak up for better bicycling? What did they say? #bikeschool #bikes4climate #ClimateAction #Cities4Climate
@PlasticPlanners has your graphic:
****Q8: Have you ever done/will you someday do a bike ride for environmental cause like Global Climate Action Ride organized by @sfbike globalclimateactionsummit.org/events/people-…
coming up Sept 13 or @ClimateRide? Some other action? #bikeschool #bikes4climate #ClimateAction #Cities4Climate
***Q9: In your bike riding have you noticed seasonal/climate shifts? Bike race footage shows climate change over time in the plants/growing seasons along big race courses atlasobscura.com/articles/bike-… by @cjgiaimo via @atlasobscura. #bikeschool #bikes4climate #ClimateAction #bikeracing
****Q10: Coming to the end of tonight’s #bikeschool, wrapping it up with an invitation to share good articles, images, resources, videos etc on #bikes4climate #ClimateAction w/your #bikeschool buddies. A few to get you started in my replies to this.
A9 Just realized I had a seasonal shift floral moment as I was moving from Spokane to Seattle. Not sure it's related to climate change but I definitely noticed. bikestylespokane.com/2012/07/12/a-s… #bikeschool #bikesmells
See @GCAS2018 for one example of supporting #bikeshare/bicycling directly as a way of reducing emissions related to a big event #bikeschool #bikes4climate #ClimateAction #Cities4Climate
Incentives for #ebikes led to people switching car trips to bike trips, riding farther; see treehugger.com/bikes/sweden-o… … by @derekmarkham via @treehugger. #bikeschool #bikes4climate #ClimateAction
Purchase Incentives More Cost-Effective for E-Bikes Than EVs per @NavigantRSRCH navigantresearch.com/news-and-views… #bikeschool #ebikes #bikes4climate #cities4climate #ClimateAction
“While it’s hard to get a handle on exactly how much energy a mass e-bike scheme requires, it’s almost certainly less than any other kind of transit.” -@ameliainahurry via @grist grist.org/article/this-e… #bikeschool #bikeshare #ebikes #bikes4climate #cities4climate #ClimateAction
Thanks everyone for chiming in on tonight's policy-heavy #bikeschool. Now back to our regularly scheduled programming of chocolate, coffee, books, and super-hero movies. I may add a few more resource links to the thread. Feel free to add on any time you have #bikes4climate info.
UN Global Sustainable Development Report due out 2019. “Walking, biking and electrified public transportation should all be emphasized in the world’s cities, the scientists wrote.” bigthink.com/stephen-johnso… via @bigthink #bikeschool #bikes4climate #cities4climate #ClimateAction
“Bicycling could help cut carbon emissions from urban transportation 11%....if cities around the world make a strong, sustained commitment to promoting bicycle travel.” -@schmangee 2015 usa.streetsblog.org/2015/11/18/how… #bikeschool #bikes4climate #cities4climate #ClimateAction
@threadreaderapp Hope you can help unroll tonight's long tweetstorm.
If you missed tonight's #bikeschool you can read the questions here in order thanks to @threadreaderapp: threadreaderapp.com/thread/1035331…. Theme/questions revolved around #bikes4climate #cities4climate #ClimateAction.
I may just keep coming back to add to this #bikeschool #bikes4climate thread for a while. This just popped up in my feed. #cities4climate #ClimateAction
Bike + #sustainability links at the end of my blog post about providing complete transportation information for your event/conference/meeting: bikestylespokane.com/2018/08/04/eve… #bikeschool #bikes4climate #cities4climate #MoveEquity #ClimateAction #eventprofs
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Jumping onto this webinar now. Not too late to join the awesome @jessicaroberts to learn how to get people moving in new ways. #walking #bicycleschangelives #transit #mobility #TDM
Subsidized transit card a great predictor of increased transit use. Use loss framing to get 11x more use, says @jessicaroberts : You're missing out if you don't take advantage of the money they're putting in your pocket. #transit
"Fresh Start Effect": We set an arbitrary day/time like New Year's Day to become a new person. Reaching out to someone who has just moved w/info to help them establish new transportation habits in this new setting is one effective technique.
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Kicking off my #aashtoAM tweeting with a few relevant tweets from #WalkBikePlaces below. And really, you should just go look at that whole thread if you work in transportation.
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Kicking off #WalkBikePlaces with an infrastructure tour on @BlueBikesNOLA. Several under way now; I'm on the one that looks at public art, placemaking. #bikeNOLA
First stop: Jackson Square, National Historic Site, named for Andrew J. Led battle that saved NOLA in 1812 but owned enslaved people. Should his statue come down? #WalkBikePlaces
Beautiful murals! Families of Plessy and Ferguson reconciled with art in celebration. Studio BE right across the street--big studio space in covered warehouse. @BlueBikesNOLA station right here at park.
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Friends, people out there are so easy to manipulate and cause them to panic. Say something, and you can cause people to make decisions they would not make otherwise. When you choose to listen to the voices of panic and lies, you make horrible decisions. Faith, not fantasy!
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So.

Time for something a little different, and an idea I’ve been toying with—a look at how #transphobes try to frame their narrative within a claim that they are only “concerned” about trans people existing.

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I'm so happy you decided to throw out an example, Will.

Let's go over how this is wrong. First of all, no one was saying the tweets meant "white genocide was real."

Come on. That's dishonest of you.
"my inbox filters all pitches from white men and puts them right in the spam folder"
"i once spoke to a white person without even spitting in their face"
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1. A couple of people sent me @meghan_daum's latest (h/t @kittypurrzog). It's a 28 minute read but I finally got through it and although I haven't been through a divorce in the past few years, so much of what she wrote is familiar.
@meghan_daum 2. The point at which I realized that some of the left was off the rails was when I covered the June/July 2015 #KimonoWednesdays protests at Boston's MFA. What I thought would be a one post response turned into weeks of coverage & a 3 part postmortem.
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@meghan_daum 3. I’m not on Facebook but I started seeing this sort of thing crop up among my friends here and there. Forums, mailing lists, private conversations.
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From 2001 to 2005 there was an ongoing investigation into the Clinton Foundation. A Grand Jury had been impaneled.
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