There were two things I meant to write about last week; I managed to cover the first in talking about my church’s Community Harvest Dinner along with many links to local resources for eating local. Then, on Friday night, I saw that PBS NOW ran a piece on the same topic! For more info on “locavores,” check out Growing Local, Eating Local on PBS.
To further complete the deja vu experience, PBS NOW also covered the topic I did not find time to write about: Saturday’s National Day of Climate Action. I received an email from the Boston Critical Mass mailing list about a planned bike ride from Boston to Concord–recreating the ride of Paul Revere as part of the event that would culminate in Concord with an environmental rally with speeches by Senator Kerry and Congresswoman Niki Tsongas. That sounded like an awesome idea, but 1) no way to spend half a day riding my bike by myself while my pregnant wife gallantly tries to entertain our two toddlers, and 2) we had a tropical storm hit us that day in Boston.
A long time ago, I blogged about what a great sense of place I get from riding my bike in New England…and I think a bike ride to an environmental event is a great idea. I mean, it seems kind of lame to pile everyone into a minivan, drive 20 miles, then rally about reducing CO2 emissions. So, in the end, we stayed home.
But here are some youtube videos from Boston:
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