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Last year’s Bike Summit Morphs Into This Year’s StreetSummit
In March 2009, the Urban and Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College produced the L.A. Bike Summit. The event was a smashing success with over twenty workshops and participants from around the world, bringing together hundreds of bicyclists to celebrate, debate, and advance the growing Los Angeles bike movement. Thanks to all the great folks who lead workshops last year!
January 15, 2010
Acceptance Speech: Stephen Box Responds to His Streetsie Win Last Week
I'm honored to be recognized with the Livable Streets award as Person
of the Year and I'm humbled as I look around at the many activists who
also work tirelessly to make Los Angeles a Great City. Most of all, I'm
convinced that this "Streetsie" award belongs to everybody who walks,
rides a bike, and takes mass transit because that's the simple action
that has within it the power to return our streets to the people of Los
Angeles.
January 4, 2010
No Streetsie Left Behind: Even More Awards for 2009
(I have no idea how I missed these, nevertheless...)
January 4, 2010
The 2009 Streetsies – The Best of Times
I thought we would start with the good times of the year. Tomorrow we'll look at "the worst of times" and award our stories and advocate of the year awards. Happy reading!
December 30, 2009
Vote for the 2009 Livable Streets Person of the Year!
Amongst the most prestigious of the annual Streetsie awards is the Person of the Year, the award bestowed on the person not named Villaraigosa or Schwarzenegger who most dominated the discussion and debate during the last year. The person doesn't have to be a hero, they could be a villain. Nominees were submitted by the committee that volunteered to help with the Streetsies this year and by me. However, the Person of the year will be selected by all of us. The top ten figures that are near and dear to our Livable Streets' hearts can be found below. Leave your top three choices for Livable Streets Person of the Year in the comments section. I'll start.
December 28, 2009
Gottlieb in the Times: Stop Climate Change By Bringing More Bikes to L.A.
Robert Gottlieb, of the Urban & Environmental Policy Institute
at Occidental College, penned an op/ed piece for today's Los Angeles Times arguing that the key for Los Angeles to meet it's environmental goals is to encourage more people to get out of their cars and into their bicycles. UEPI is the main sponsor for the Bicycle and Pedestrian Summit that takes place in March.
December 14, 2009
Help Deliver Christmas Trees to Local Schools Tomorrow…By Bike
Los Angele's award winning high school debate team from the Santee Learning Center is looking to spread some holiday cheer to other local schools tomorrow. The debaters will lead a fourteen and a half mile bike ride from the Learning Center to Venice High School and they'll be stopping along the way to deliver Christmas trees to area high schools at 11:00 A.M. The Learning Center is located at 1921 Maple Avenue in Los Angeles. For more information, call Santee Debate Coaches Amber Young at (310) 256-6267 or Nick Richert at (310) 428-4222.
December 3, 2009