Thank you all for following our Peg City Car
Co-op<http://www.pegcitycarcoop.ca>video series! It has been fun to
share these video's with you each week,
and get so much feedback from others that bike, walk, bus, and sometimes
drive to get around our city!
Last weeks video featuring members Shauna, Ken, and little
Savannah<http://vimeo.com/34311607>was inspiring, and hit home how
personal costs are reduced without personal
vehicle ownership - it is nice to see them comfortable in their new house
too!
This week our final video features another member, Dave. Dave thinks it is
nuts to buy and own a car if you only need it a few times a month. He
appreciates being a part of the community structure of the co-op, and is
happy to share a car with other co-op members.
See it here: http://vimeo.com/34036808
If you have been inspired by these videos and think carsharing might work
for you, click here for more
information<http://pegcitycarcoop.ca/how-it-works/>or to become
a member <http://pegcitycarcoop.ca/join/>!
Thanks for watching!
--
Shoni
*Economic and Health Benefits of Cycling in Iowa
(University of Northern Iowa, Fall 2011*)
This study identifies the economic and health impacts of bicycling in Iowa.
Impacts are estimated based on spending by individual cyclists, bicycle
specific retail sales, economic activity generated by bicycle
organizations, and health cost savings in the State of Iowa. The study is
based on primary data collected from individual cyclists, bicycle specific
retail operators and bicycle organizations. Health impacts are based on
selected primary and secondary data detailed in the methodology. This study
presents:
- A profile of the commuter and recreational cyclists in Iowa (party and
trip
- characteristics, spending, and demographic profiles);
- A profile of bicycle retail establishments in Iowa;
- A profile of bicycle organizations in Iowa; and
- A profile of the health benefits and health savings from cycling in
Iowa.
Read the full study here:
https://www.iowabicyclecoalition.org/sites/default/files/IBC%20Final%20Jan%…
--
*Beth McKechnie* | Workplace Commuter Options
<http://greenactioncentre.ca/>Green Action
Centre<http://www.greenactioncentre.ca/>
<http://greenactioncentre.ca/content/ecocentre-directions-and-travel-options/>
3rd floor, 303 Portage Ave | (204) 925-3772 | Find us
here<http://greenactioncentre.ca/content/ecocentre-directions-and-travel-options/>
Green Action Centre is your non-profit hub for greener living.
Support our work by becoming a
member<http://greenactioncentre.ca/support/memberships/>
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Michael Haynes <activetransportation(a)rogers.com>
Date: 21 January 2012 08:40
Subject: Active Transportation Canada - New Posts January 21, 2012
Happy New Year Active Transportation-Canada Listserv Members:
Fifteen news items about Active Transportation have been posted on the
Active Transportation-Canada Website today.
Among the items included in these new articles:
1. Sweden Plans A Four-Lane Bike
Superhighway<http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/sweden-bike-superhighway.html>
2. Active and Safe Routes to School in Manitoba - January
Newsletter<http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=af15a2f9f91ef9a183a3f55cc&id=d689c5e716…>
3. Urge the Federal Government to Mandate Truck Side
Guards<http://bccyclingcoalition.blogspot.com/2012/01/urge-federal-government-to-m…>
A complete list of all articles posted since the Websites creation may be
found in the "Blog Archive" box, located on the right margin of the
Website. There are now more than 1,400 items posted on Active
Transportation - Canada, with links available to dozens of studies and
hundreds of news items from communities across Canada and the world.
Active Transportation Canada URL:
http://activetransportation-canada.blogspot.com A "Search" function is
available on the site. You will find this at the bottom of the page.
If anyone has a problem reading this message, please let me know. I
welcome suggestions for posts, so if you have news items featuring your
community, please share them with the other subscribers from Canada, the
US, and Australia on Active Transportation-Canada.
Thank you.
Michael Haynes
Director
TransActive Solutions
*Friendly reminder about tomorrow's webinar...*
Join Green Action Centre staff for a free online webinar sharing highlights
and stories from Fall 2011 conferences that we attended:
- *Beth McKechnie: *Complete Streets, APBP Professional Development
Seminar (Charlotte, North Carolina)
- *Jackie Avent and Shoni Litinsky: *Walk 21 and ASRTS Summit
(Vancouver, BC)
- *Jessie Klassen: *ACT Canada Sustainable Mobility Summit (Vancouver BC)
*1:00 pm, Tuesday January 24th, 2012*
*
*
The webinar will take place on *WIMBA*, Green Action Centre's online
classroom. Please sign in 20 minutes early to ensure the system
functions effectively on your computer. Log-in information is below. You
will need to go through an introductory wizard the first time. If you are
working on a MAC computer, log in using the Safari browser.
Hope you can join us on Tuesday!
Sincerely,
Beth, Jackie, Jessie and Shoni
// Room Info
Name: Green Action Centre - Manitoba
URL: http://gcclive.wimba.com/launcher.cgi?room=greenactioncentre
Room ID: greenactioncentre
// Time and Duration
Start Time: January 24, 2012 at 01:00 P.M. CST
Duration: i hour
// Phone Access
Dial-in number(s): Phone - (416) 342-1934
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Phone PIN: 02501364
I hope you all enjoyed last week's video featuring
Chris<http://vimeo.com/34035969>on the utility of using Peg
City Car Co-op <http://www.pegcitycarcoop.ca>, even if at times it is
simply helpful to get him out of an awkward date!
*This week, our video features a family story - Ken, Shauna, and little
Savvy talk about how the co-op helped them save money, and even buy a house!
*
*
*
*See it here: http://vimeo.com/34311607*
We have recently moved a vehicle to South
Osborne<http://pegcitycarcoop.ca/2012/01/car2-moves-to-south-osborne/>
-
so if you live in that neighbourhood and have considered carsharing or
would like to learn more about it. Please get in touch with me!
One more week left to go in our video series, stay tuned!
--
Shoni
Peg City Car Co-op
Co-ops build a better world - International Year of the Co-op
2012<http://www.copac.coop/iyc/index.html>
.
Gaining Ground: Connecting People and Knowledge
Provincial Conference on Active Transportation and Recreation
Wednesday March 21, 2012
at the PCU Centre in Portage La Prairie, Manitoba
REGISTER TODAY!
Visit www.pacm.ca to register and to view the full conference brochure.
Hosted by the Physical Activity Coalition of Manitoba (PACM)
[Please share widely and sign up your own team of family, friends,
co-workers! Poster attached. Thanks]
*
GET MOVING WITH BOUGEONS EN HIVER: THE JACK FROST CHALLENGE!*
Bougeons en hiver: The Jack Frost Challenge! is a new event celebrating
winter in Manitoba. Sign up your team of 1 to 5 to skate, bike, ski,
snowshoe, or walk a combined total of 130 km during the week of February
11th to 17th. Participants will be entered in a draw for ‘cool’ prizes.
Register at www.greenactioncentre.ca or call us at (204) 925-3775 or
1-866-394-8880 (toll free) for more information. A Co-Actif
Epica<http://actifepi.ca/>Event.
* * * * *
*Soyez actif en participant à « Bougeons en hivers : The Jack Frost
Challenge! »*
Bougeons en hiver : The Jack Frost Challenge! est un nouvel événement
célébrant l’hiver manitobaine! Inscrivez-vous en équipe d’une à cinq
personnes pour faire le patinage, la bicyclette, la raquette ou la marche
d’un total collectif de 130km sur une durée d’une semaine, du 11 au 17
février, 2012. Vous aurez la chance de gagner des prix.
Inscrivez-vous au www.greenactioncentre.ca ou pour plus d’information
composez le 1-866-394-8880 (sans frais) ou le (204) 925-3775.
--
*Beth McKechnie* | Workplace Commuter Options
<http://greenactioncentre.ca/>Green Action
Centre<http://www.greenactioncentre.ca/>
<http://greenactioncentre.ca/content/ecocentre-directions-and-travel-options/>
3rd floor, 303 Portage Ave | (204) 925-3772 | Find us
here<http://greenactioncentre.ca/content/ecocentre-directions-and-travel-options/>
Green Action Centre is your non-profit hub for greener living.
Support our work by becoming a
member<http://greenactioncentre.ca/support/memberships/>
Join Green Action Centre Staff for a free online webinar sharing highlights
and stories from Fall 2011 conferences that we attended:
- *Beth McKechnie: *Complete Streets, APBP Professional Development
Seminar (Charlotte, North Carolina)
- *Jackie Avent and Shoni Litinsky: *Walk 21 and ASRTS Summit
(Vancouver, BC)
- *Jessie Klassen: *ACT Canada Sustainable Mobility Summit (Vancouver BC)
*1:00 pm, Tuesday January 24th, 2012*
*
*
The webinar will take place on *WIMBA*, Green Action Centre's online
classroom. Please sign in 20 minutes early to ensure the system
functions effectively on your computer. Log-in information is below. You
will need to go through an introductory wizard the first time. If you are
working on a MAC computer, log in using the Safari browser.
Hope you can join us on Tuesday!
Sincerely,
Beth, Jackie, Jessie and Shoni
// Room Info
Name: Green Action Centre - Manitoba
URL: http://gcclive.wimba.com/launcher.cgi?room=greenactioncentre
Room ID: greenactioncentre
// Time and Duration
Start Time: January 24, 2012 at 01:00 P.M. CST
Duration: i hour
// Phone Access
Dial-in number(s): Phone - (416) 342-1934
<%28416%29%20342-1934>
Phone PIN: 02501364
There are four great webinar opportunities around Active and Safe Routes to
School and School Travel Planning coming up! More details are below, but
please feel free to join Green Action Centre staff for the Safe Routes to
School and Traffic Reduction webinar on January 31st from noon-1pm at the
Eco-Centre - 3rd Floor, 303 Portage Avenue.
*Tuesday, January 24, 2012 (6:30 pm CT) One hour*Sustainable Happiness,
Hope & Resiliency Presenters: Catherine O'Brien and Elin Kelsey
Join Catherine O'Brien and Elin Kelsey for an inspiring conversation about
sustainable happiness, hope and resiliency. In the Summer 2011 issue of
Green Teacher, Catherine and Elin introduced the concepts of sustainable
happiness, hope and resiliency and why it's so important to move beyond
"gloom and doom." In this webinar, they invite you to join them in a lively
conversation about how these ideas are catching hold and causing ripples of
optimism across the disciplines of environmental and sustainability
education, health and well-being and conservation biology, and around the
world. After short presentations, they will share some of the ways they are
seeing this work moving out in the world so that participants can start to
think of implications for their personal and professional life.
*Suitability:* All formal and non-formal youth educators
*Please register directly at:*
http://greenteacherwebinarobrienkelsey2-eorg.eventbrite.com/
*Tuesday January 31st, 2012 (12pm CT) One hour**Pump Down the Volume: SRTS
and Traffic Reduction*
Presenters:
Nancy Pullen-Seufert, Associate Director, National Center for Safe Routes
to School
Melissa Watford, Health Education Specialist, FirstHealth of the Carolinas
Jason Goldsberry, Physical Education Teacher, Eagle Crest Elementary
School, Longmont, CO
Communities initiate Safe Routes to School programs for a variety of
reasons. In an attempt to reduce the barriers for students to walk and
bicycle to school, some programs focus on reducing traffic congestion and
the number of cars around schools.
In this sixty minute webinar, we will take a brief look at the problem of
traffic congestion as it relates to SRTS and then focus on two SRTS
programs that have had success in reducing congestion and measuring
traffic reductions. The first program, Eagle Crest Elementary School's
Step Often and Ride to School (SOAR) Program, surveyed families in order to
understand travel patterns to school. After learning that 75 percent of
students arrived by car, the program focused on increasing walking and
bicycling rates through education and encouragement. After just one year,
Eagle Crest saw a 40 percent reduction in motor vehicle traffic. The
second program, Pinehurst Walks! from Pinehurst, NC, focused on encouraging
the school's 650 students to become engaged as leaders in the effort to get
more students walking to school. The Student Council presented neighborhood
walkability recommendations to the Mayor and Village Council, resulting in
a $150,000.00 allocation for a greenway to connect the elementary school to
the Village. Their efforts also resulted in a 22 percent reduction in
traffic volume on walking school bus days.
Don't miss this chance to see how these two wonderful programs succeeding
in traffic reduction efforts!
This webinar is part of the Safe Routes to School Coaching Action Network
Webinar Series, developed by America Walks and the National Center for Safe
Routes to School.
For more information please contact Michelle Gulley at
mgulley(a)americawalks.org
REGISTER NOW <https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/654857816> or join us
at the Eco-Centre - 3rd Floor, 303 Portage Avenue from noon - 1 pm!
*
**Thursday February 2, 2012 (12 pm CT) One hour* *School Travel Planning:
(Shared) Knowledge is Power!*
Presented in collaboration with The CAPTURE Project, as part of the Green
Communities Canada School Travel Planning Series.
*Brief Description*
Imagine being part of a national community where you have easy access to
School Travel Planning stakeholders and can share information and learnings
about your respective programs, policies or initiatives.
CAPTURE (Canadian Platform to Increase Usage of Real-world Evidence)
recently launched a freely accessible, knowledge exchange repository to
find and share practice-based evidence in health promotion and chronic
disease prevention. Looking beyond the published literature, CAPTURE seeks
to harness the breadth of community-based knowledge and experience.
*The CAPTURE Platform facilitates*
· Connecting with colleagues around the corner or across the country
· Sharing knowledge and wisdom from our health promotion and
chronic disease prevention experiences
· Documenting reflective practice learnings – knowledge which often
remains untapped or difficult to find
*The webinar will feature*
· An orientation to the CAPTURE Platform with examples of School
Travel Planning initiatives
· Guidelines to capture and share reflective practice knowledge
· How to enter the CAPTURE 10-minute Challenge - *and win an iPad 2!
*
*Presenter*
Dayna Albert, M.A.
Manager, Practitioner Engagement, The CAPTURE Project
Dayna holds an MA in adult education and a BSc from the University of
Toronto. Dayna has six years’ experience building organizational capacity
in evidence-informed practice. Previously, she worked with the Ontario
Public Health Association’s Towards Evidence-Informed Practice Program.
She is a member of the Canadian Evaluation Society and the American
Evaluation Association.
*Who Should Attend?*
All School Travel Planning stakeholders (i.e. program planners, municipal
partners, school-based partners, funders etc.) who are interested in
learning new ways to share their work, stay abreast of what others in the
field are doing and understand how to capture and profit from their
reflective practice learnings.
*To register, please contact dayna.albert(a)thecaptureproject.ca and provide
your name, email address and time zone.*
*
**Wednesday February 15, 2012 (11 am CT) One hour* *Project BEAT:
Integrating the key lessons of time, space and gender into STP*
A WIMBA presentation as part of the Green Communities Canada School Travel
Planning Series
Presenters:
Michelle Stone and Guy Faulkner, University of Toronto.
The BEAT (Built Environment and Active Transport –
www.beat.utoronto.ca<http://physical.utoronto.ca/Beat.aspx>)
project, funded by CIHR and the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada was a
large-scale, mixed methods and multidisciplinary research programme
designed to explore how such a behavioural shift towards active school
transport (AST) might be supported. In a series of sequential stages and
studies we addressed AST at multiple levels – national, provincial
(Ontario) and local (GTA). Our work has identified the prevalence and
correlates of AST in Canada, and, has resulted in the creation of a unified
theoretical model of AST and the built environment through examination of
the personal, family, social and environmental correlates of active school
transport.
The objective of this webinar is to present some of the key lessons learned
from the BEAT project including data on the relationship between school
travel and objectively measured physical activity levels of children. Our
focus will be on three key lessons that have implications for the School
Travel Planning (STP) model. We classify these lessons as three
interrelated themes of *time, space and gender:*
*TIME*: The main purpose of STP is to help parents/guardians overcome
perceptual barriers to the practice of actively traveling to school. These
barriers typically focus on safety (e.g., traffic & stranger danger).
However, the STP intervention itself does not explicitly address what
appear to be key issues in school travel mode choice - the parental or
caregiver ascription of convenience to the various travel modes available
for school trips (i.e., the theme of “time”) and the level of independent
mobility granted to the child.
*SPACE*: Participation in AST varies regionally and also across different
types of space or neighbourhood. STP work has traditionally targeted the
school environment, while our research also suggests that features of the
built environment around the home play a more significant role in the
school travel mode decision-making process.
*GENDER*: The school travel experience is very different for girls than it
is for boys. Fewer girls engage in AST and parental perceptions regarding
school travel are different for girls than they are for boys. Girls are
granted less independent mobility than boys; the ramifications are likely
contributing to the lower levels of physical activity and less outdoor play
time observed in girls. Modifications to built form may affect girls
differently than they would boys.
Throughout this webinar, we will provide an overview of the evidence
underpinning each theme and facilitate discussion on how each lesson is, or
could be, integrated into STP implementation.
*Please register directly with Sandra Jones, Green Communities Canada:
scjones(a)telus.net*
--
*Jackie Avent*
Green Action Centre <http://greenactioncentre.ca/> | Active and Safe Routes
to School
3rd floor, 303 Portage Avenue* | *(204) 925-3773
Green Action Centre is your non-profit hub for greener living.
Support our work by becoming a
member<http://greenactioncentre.ca/support/memberships/>
Find us here<http://greenactioncentre.ca/content/ecocentre-directions-and-travel-options/>