Posted by Lu Sid on May 12th, 2008
Today begins Charlottesville 2nd Annual Bike Week. This event is brought to you by The Alliance for Community Choice in Transportation. The idea behind this event is the promotion of physical activity and environmentally friendly transportation.
At noon Charlottesville’s Mayor, Dave Norris, former Mayor and current Council member, David Brown, and ACCT Executive Director, Zachary Shahan, will receive an award from Bill Nesper, the Director of the Bicycle Friendly Community program at City Hall. This will kick-off Bike Week events beginning May 12th through May 18th.
Check out ACCT’s web site for more information on all this week’s biking activities!!!
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Posted by Thor on April 15th, 2008
In case you didn’t know what you should be doing this week, you should be participating in Charlottesville’s own Earth Week. Sponsored and promoted by a local group known as Earth Week Online, the event, scheduled around the 3rd week in April (i.e. now), is about creating awareness around being green on a local level. The events during the following week are meant to build awareness for an internationally recognized, Earth Day on April 22nd.
Started in 1970, Earth Day has grown substantially. Today, through the Earth Day Network, over 15,000 organizations in over 174 countries participate in growing the environmental movement and promoting a vision for a sustainable and healthy planet.
Earth Day’s formal mission is to:
broaden the environmental movement worldwide and to educate and mobilize people, governments, and corporations to take responsibility for a clean and healthy environment
So, we challenge you, cVillains, to do something for Earth Day and tell us what you are doing so we can all get involved. How are you going to mobilize your workplace, your friends and Charlottesville to make the world we live in a better place?
More Resources:
For an interview with the leaders of Charlottesville’s Earth Week, go to Charlottesville Podcasting!
Official Earth Day Website.
A list of events from Charlottesville’s Earth Week group is after the break:
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