The Ojai Valley Green Coalition is a gathering of residents and friends of the Ojai Valley actively working together to create an environmentally sustainable community in Ojai. ...
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On three Saturdays in November of 2009, community members and students from schools around the county began a collaborative effort to return the Ojai Creek that meanders through Libbey Park to its natural ecology and functioning state. Students, Coalition members, and the public are now being invited back to participate in the second phase of the project on Saturday, February 20, and the following Saturday, February 27.
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Never tiring in its drive to educate, inform, and even entertain, the Ojai Valley Green Coalition is now presenting, in collaboration with the Ojai Valley Museum, the “Go Green, Ojai!” lecture series.
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In its continuing efforts to make the Ojai Valley a model green community, and in a joint undertaking with the Ojai Valley Museum (www.ojaivalleymuseum.org), the Coalition is offering its “Go Green, Ojai!” exhibit to explore the many facets of sustainability that are vital to the health and well-being of the Ojai Valley community.
• This Month’s Community Presentation: Our Seeds: Seeds Blong Yumi, a Film from the Seed Savers Network
• We Welcome Three New Members of Our Board of Directors
• Thinking in Green: On Resolving vs. Resigning
• Last Two Weeks for “Go Green, Ojai!”
• The Ojai Creek Restoration Project: Phase Two Set to Begin
• Eek! So Much E-Waste!
Bicycle advocacy groups are expanding, and a "Complete Streets" movement has blossomed in recent years, bringing together a broad coalition of citizen and environmental groups demanding more pedestrian- and cyclist-friendly roads. Six states and more than 50 cities, counties, and metro regions have now enacted some form of Complete Streets legislation.
Pedaling Toward Cleaner Cities
By Alison Raphael, OneWorld US, May 13, 2008
What single silver bullet can simultaneously reduce air pollution and oil dependency, roll back urban congestion, and fight obesity?
It's not a pill, nor a complicated formula concocted by the World Bank. People around the world are turning to bicycles by the millions, as governments rush to create incentives for the low-tech transport alternative to gas-guggling, smog-making, traffic jam-producing automobiles.
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I applaud John van Houten’s comments about the lack of support for cycling in the Ojai Valley. I am a long time resident and I have always been engaged by our community’s desire to preserve our quality of life and sustainability. As a cyclist I have been disappointed in our community’s lack of support.
Guest Editorial by John van Houten, M.D.
The city of Ojai has made a concerted effort to become a “green” city in the past few years. However, it has ignored one very effective way to be more environmentally responsible, and that is by promoting cycling as an alternative form of transportation.
Ojai is a haven for recreational cyclists and even pro level cycling teams due in large part to our beautiful terrain and agreeable year round weather. However, there is no support for cycling as a form of daily transportation.
Listing the benefits of bicycling makes it sound like one of those old patent medicines: "guaranteed to cure all your ills." But the simple truth is that bicycling is good for the air, the water, the earth, the quality of life in our community, helps to conserve energy, increases property value, increases business, and makes our streets and highways more efficient and, at the same time is good for our health, makes us more fit, and its fun!
Here is a quick look at the ten top reasons why bicycles are good!
