Love ’em or loathe ’em — and we don’t know anybody who actually
loathes
them, per se — there’s something undeniably inspiring about the folks at
Green Wheels
. These fresh-faced alternative transportation activists have exploded on the scene in the last few months, making themselves ubiquitous in every countywide discussion that even remotely touches on busing or biking and walking.
One could argue that the key to their success has been their irrepressible “can-do” spirit, which often takes the form of super-cool technology harnessed to serve their cause. See, for instance, the Humboldt County entry in
Google Transit
— an immensely useful little Green Wheels project that vaults us way ahead of much larger communities.
Whether that means you want to watch a YouTube video of Green Wheelers cleaning up sidewalks to the sound of Santana’s “Oye Como Va” … that’s entirely up to you. For our part, it’s a convenient excuse to test out embedded video.
This article appears in Everyone Is Connected.
Finally! A group taking up the plight of the often-abused Sidewalks. We as a society never stop to consider how poorly Sidewalks are treated. Pooped on by dogs, and left to become infested with weeds, the Sidewalks need our help.
For the price of a cup of coffe, you can help.
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Yeah. Green Wheels is what I had hoped the Trails Trust would have been. Kudos to them. Ambitious and outspoken rather than contemplative and muzzled. Guess that’s what happens when you try and be all inclusive.