Cars take up a lot of space in urban centres and deprive non-car owners of previous real estate and a clean environment. Yet, for years we have let car drivers occupy our cities with their large metal boxes which impeded the freedom and mobility of others. Back in 2003 London
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Kersplebedeb: Sept. 10, 2022 – NYC Anarchist Bookfair
Kersplebedeb will be tabling at the NYC Anarchist Bookfair on Saturday, September 10. Come check us out! SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2022, from 2 PM, La Plaza Cultural Community Garden 16th Annual NYC Anarchist Bookfair https://www.facebook.com/events/587848412514661 https://anarchistbookfair.net/ The NYC Anarchist Book Fair brings hundreds of anarchists, anarchy supporters and curious visitors
Continue readingThings Are Good: New York City Bans New Gas Connections
New buildings constructed in New York City are not permitted to connect to natural gas for any reason. This makes NYC the largest city in the USA to do so and likely marks a shift in the country for even more cities to adopt a ban on new uses of
Continue readingThings Are Good: NYC Delivery Workers Help Each Other
Delivery apps make ordering food easier and cheaper for consumers, but it costs the workers. By offloading the costs of actually delivering food onto labour the app companies like Uber have few expenses they need to cover, thus the appeal to investors. For the first wave of food delivery apps
Continue readingThings Are Good: New York’s Increased Minimum Wage Increased Revenue for Businesses and People
With inequality increasing throughout the world she jurisdictions are fighting back by raising the minimum wage. Business owners must pay employees at least the minimum wage set by the government, no matter how little they want to actually pay people. Minimum wage increases were rare for the first years of
Continue readingThings Are Good: We All Benefit When We Build Safe Streets
The climate crisis requires solutions at all levels and that includes the streets. Safe streets for pedestrians and cyclists ensures that more people will use sustainable transit (and not drive polluting cars). New York City has earned a reputation for redesigning their streetscape to be for people instead of cars,
Continue readingThings Are Good: Large Cities are Done with Cars
North Americans love cars and that love is literally killing us, and I don’t mean through car exhaust I mean by directly killing people. Over 60 people were needlessly killed by drivers in Toronto in 2018. This is obviously the fault of careless driving, but it’s also the result of
Continue readingThings Are Good: Oysters Are Saving New York’s Waters
There are many fans of oysters who eat them for their failure; however, I’m a fan of oysters because of what they eat. Back in 2011 we looked at the idea of using oysters to clean waters while harbouring other species – with the bonus impact that the oysters then
Continue readingThings Are Good: Providing Bike Lanes is Better than Providing Parking
In North America riding a bicycle in the cities built for cars can be stressful. Because these cities are designed for cars it’s hard to get anywhere quickly and New York witnessed this first hand. Instead of adding more vehicle lanes and continuing the problem they decided to remove parking
Continue readingThings Are Good: Courts vs. Climate Change
New York City launched a lawsuit against some of the larger polluters on the planet to cover the costs the city faces due to climate change (projected to be over $20 billion USD). A decade ago this case would likely have been thrown out, today with the effects of climate
Continue readingThings Are Good: In New York, Bikes Have Totally Victory Over the Car
NYC Streets Metamorphosis from STREETFILMS on Vimeo. New York City might be famous for its cabs, but in the future it might be famous for its bikes. The city has seen a big push for sustainable and fast transit in the last decade and everyone agrees: bike lanes are the solution. The city’s commitment to […]
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Continue readingThings Are Good: Germs Are Everywhere, Don’t Worry About it
Recently, a study by Weill Cornell Medical College found that the New York City subway is filled to the brim with germs. They are plentiful and easily get on you, but don’t worry. Most of the germs are good for you and the rest are more or less harmless. Over
Continue readingThings Are Good: New York City’s Simple, and Green, Flood Prevention
New York, like other large cities, has a lot of impermeable services which means that when it rains there is little to contain the water. By using green infrastructure of soil, broken stone, shrubs, trees, etc. the bioswales can capture a lot of water. This green infrastructure is good for
Continue readingThings Are Good: Adding Bike Lanes Reduces Traffic Delays
Bike lanes are wonderful. We’ve already seen that bike lanes create jobs, save lives, and help local economies. Now from New York City there is a transportation report that says adding bike lanes can reduce traffic delays. So what happened here to overcome the traditional idea that bike lanes lead
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: A Little Bit of Civil Terrorism…
A little bit of civil terrorism keeps the population docile, afraid of irrational and unjust behaviour from law enforcement [sic] but hey, it helps us all live more peacefully because if you’re not a terrorist, you have nothing to fear from police terrorism via unconstitutional and racially discriminatory persecution. Right?
Continue readingMelissa Fong: You know what I find really astounding?
That we still find childbirth amazing and incredible: Woman Gives Birth on New York City Street It’s pretty cool. Read story hereFiled under: Happy rant, No Rant-Just Interesting Tagged: babies, […]
Continue readingArt Threat: Banksy in NYC: highlights from the first two weeks
New Yorkers have spent the past two weeks tripping over themselves as they attempt to locate new Banksy works as they pop up each morning. The British artist is currently halfway through a month-long residency “on the streets of New York,” and his daily creations, which include video and other
Continue readingThings Are Good: Green Roofs Assist in Flood Prevention
Yesterday Toronto got more rain in two hours than it normally does in a month which meant some serious flooding happened. This got me thinking of a program that Toronto (alleged crackhead) Mayor (busted for DUI) Rob (loves pollution) Ford (reads while driving) cancelled. The cancelled program promoted green roofs
Continue readingThings Are Good: Moscow and New York City Both Launch Bike Sharing Services
Mayor Bloomberg in New York City has been clear that streets are meant to move people around and not just cars. The efforts the city has made to open up streets to people are working and the most recent push comes from their new bike sharing program. “I expect to
Continue readingbastard.logic: Concert of the Day: Straight Outta CBGB’s
Bad Brains live at CBGB 1982: Filed under: music, Uncategorized, video Tagged: Bad Brains, CBGB, CBGB’s, D.C. hardcore, hardcore punk, music, New York, NYC, video
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