A message brought to you from GreenCityBlueLake, Ohio City Bicycle Co-op, Cleveland Bikes and Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative:
“The Ohio Department of Transportation plans to build a new, $450 million I-90 bridge through downtown Cleveland. Although all of us should be able to use it, the existing plans do not include pedestrian and cyclist access. We [...]
Archive for the ‘Transportation’ Category
Innerbelt Bridge Access for Everyone
Posted in Cleveland, Economic Development, Government, Green Cities, Green Economy, Green Jobs, Innovation and Design, Love Your Place, Northeast Ohio, Sustainability, Transportation, Urban Re-Development, tagged bike lane, Cleveland, Cleveland Bikes, Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative, GreenCityBlueLake, I-90, Innerbelt Bridge, ODOT, Ohio City Bicycle Co-op, Ohio Department of Transportation, Towpath Trail on December 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
SustainLane’s Local Action Challenge – Most Active Cities
Posted in Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Detroit, Great Lakes Cities, Green Cities, Green Economy, Indianapolis, Innovation and Design, Local Food, Love Your Place, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Northeast Ohio, Rust Belt, Sustainability, Transportation, tagged Cleveland, Colorado Springs, Columbus, Detroit, Hopenhagen, Indianapolis, Local Action Challenge, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Most Active Cities, SustainLane on December 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cleveland is currently the second most active city in the nation on SustainLane’s Local Action Challenge. With a whopping 284 points, we are beat only by Colorado Springs (which currently has 686 points).
SustainLane is hosting the Hopenhagen Local Action Challenge to empower people to be more environmentally responsible on the local level. Cities set up [...]
The Vital Center
Posted in Economic Development, Government, Great Lakes Cities, Green Cities, Green Economy, Industry, Innovation and Design, Love Your Place, Rust Belt, Sustainability, Transportation, Urban Re-Development, Vacant Land, tagged Brookings Institute, Bruce Katz, Federal-state compact to renew the great lakes region, Great Lakes Congressional Caucus Leadership, Great Lakes Economic Initiative, John Austin, presentation, report, The Brookings Institution, The Vital Center, Vital Center Report on October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program wrote a groundbreaking report about the importance of renewing the Great Lakes region, called “The Vital Center: A Federal-State Compact to Renew the Great Lakes Region.”
Below is the presentation given on March 5, 2007, by Bruce Katz (Vice-President of the Brookings Institution) and John Austin (Non-Resident Senior Fellow) to brief House and Senate [...]
Local Government Reform
Posted in Cleveland, Economic Development, Government, Green Cities, Green Economy, Love Your Place, Northeast Ohio, Sustainability, Transportation, Urban Re-Development, Vacant Land, tagged Cleveland, Cleveland EcoVillage, collaboration, corrupt officials, Government, Local government reform, Mayor Jackson, Northeast Ohio, reform, regional collaboration, Sustainable Transportation on October 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Most people who live around Cleveland are tired of hearing about corrupt public officials doing shady deals, having closed-door meetings and dressing in drag. While it’s fantastic that Mayor Jackson has supported the movement to make Cleveland a model of sustainability, other public officials all around Ohio have yet to get it.
Whether publicly elected officials understand [...]
The Bridge Project
Posted in Cleveland, Innovation and Design, Love Your Place, Transportation, Urban Re-Development, Vacant Land, tagged Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative, Detroit-Superior Bridge, Ingenuity Fest, KSU, Pop Up City, The Bridge Project, Vacant Space on September 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This Friday (4pm-midnight) and Saturday (noon-midnight), KSU’s Urban Design Collaborative and IngenuityFest are highlighting the possibilities for the pedestrian level of Cleveland’s Detroit-Superior Bridge with family-friendly and FREE art exhibits, installations, performances, and entertainment. Food, drinks and arts and crafts will also be for sale.
This is clearly not a party to miss, especially since this is a one-time event in [...]
Sylvia Bingham and Community Bike Ride
Posted in Cleveland, Economic Development, Green Cities, Green Economy, Love Your Place, Sustainability, Transportation, Urban Re-Development, tagged Bicycle, Bike Lanes, City bike lanes, Community Bike Ride, Critical Mass, Sylvia Bingham on September 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I did not know Sylvia Bingham, but I wish I had gotten the chance to meet her. She was killed this past Tuesday when she was struck by a truck while riding her bike to work in downtown Cleveland.
Sylvia graduated from Yale in 2009 and moved to Cleveland to work with “Hard Hatted Women”, an [...]
