Monthly Archives: November 2011

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Top 5 ways to Occupy Big Oil

Wall Street is the best immediate target for a huge protest movement, since it was the freewheeling gambling of big banks that pushed the economy over the edge in 2008 and started the Great Recession.
Now, as Occupy movements pop up around the US and across the globe to draw attention to economic [...]

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Railroad Lines That Are Flourishing

For those looking to go “carless” and find alternative ways to travel, there is good news: many railroads are currently flourishing. Additionally, for those who go carless for reasons regarding the environment and traffic reduction, many others are joining you, and it’s working. Firstly, there is Amtrak, which despite [...]

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30 Car-Free Years: Cycling Pumps Money into My Wallet

I’ve been wanting to write this article for awhile:  how cycling can change your spending habits.  I should know –I haven’t lived in a household with a car for over the past 30 years. Yup. It really has been a car-free joy “ride” to financial liberation.
I have been cycling  over the past [...]

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WHAM!

In 1993, in central London, I witnessed an upsetting accident.
I didn’t see what happened, but …
I heard it. On the pavement, mid-street, when, suddenly, close to my shoulder nearest the gutter – WHAM!  Forceful enough for me to believe, fleetingly, that I’d been struck. I  stopped and turned. A man lying in [...]