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Calgary Culturejammers: About 17 people showed up at 5pm outside the Woodridge Ford Lincoln dealership in the south part of town to bring attention to Ford's abysmal environmental record. Since there was only a core group of about 6 people who worked on putting the event together here, we were quite pleased with the turnout. (The weather was pretty nice, too, until just before the end when it started to rapidly cool off.)

Voice of Grant: April 2005: About 17 people showed up at 5pm outside the Woodridge Ford Lincoln dealership in the south part of town to bring attention to Ford's abysmal environmental record. Since there was only a core group of about 6 people who worked on putting the event together here, we were quite pleased with the turnout. (The weather was pretty nice, too, until just before the end when it started to rapidly cool off.)

Ecopledge Blog: Global Warming Archives: Michael Cooper, of the New York Times reported today that the operators of six coal-burning power plants in upstate New York agreed to reduce their smog causing emissions. These actions, at these plants alone, will be the equivalent of removing 2.5 million vehicles from the New York state's roads, as well as every diesel truck in the country. By installing filters, switching to "cleaner" burning coal and shutting down some of the oldest and most inefficient units more than half the amount of sulfur dioxide, the main cause of acid rain, will be released. Nitrogen oxide emissions will also be slashed by a fifth.

LA Car.com - The Cars and Culture of Southern California Magazine ...: Reflecting back on the effort to name the car that eventually became the Edsel, Parklife observes, "What's funny is that the unspoken word at Ford was that the model would absolutely not be named the Edsel, since Edsel Ford had died of cancer at a young age and naming a car line after him was thought to be vulgar. It was a directive that seems very wise in hindsight, considering the modern use of 'Edsel' as a pejorative. ..For all the good that Edsel Ford did for the company - the purchasing of Lincoln, the creation of the Mercury brand, the design of the Model A - he has the most mindshare with Americans for being honored by having his name slapped on the biggest joke to come out of Detroit since the copper-cooled Chevy."   

Bicycling news/issues/culture - Bike Blog by Jim Doherty: It's important to understand that often local governments' pro-bicycling programs often prove to be cosmetic in nature only.  When a city has a bicycle coordinator, that this is not to be confused with a city having a bicycle advocate.  It's important to understand that when a citizen reports gross hazards to a city, the net result years later will not necessarily be ANY improvement or redress, just possibly little more than excuses as to how expenditures on paving, cement, and indoor car parking garage schemes, along with personal injury lawsuits, have nearly bankrupted a city, so bike hazards remain to injure cyclist after cyclist.  It's a good idea for injured cyclists to coalesce on the web so that a group of cyclists pooling funds can hire pricey attorneys who are needed to successfully sue a local city into not only SAYING it cares about encouraging bicyclists, but actually ACTS like it cares and understands HOW to encourage bicyclists.  That includes prompt redress of hazards as well as prompt reform of bicycles-as-criminal city codes that are selectively enforced against bicyclists.  Maybe a Cadillac-owning city police chief decided years ago that bicyclists are a nuisance to be abated instead of a vital transportation mode to be encouraged.  It could well be that the loftier the rhetoric about encouraging bicycling, the harsher the crackdown in any given city against the basic things bicyclists need such as:

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