Tag Archives: Emerald City
Alex on Emerald City – Volunteering for a Bike Org

Alex on Emerald City – Volunteering for a Bike Org

I wrote a piece for Emerald City yesterday about volunteering for a local bike advocacy organization. I boiled it down to five orgs and one event: CICLE, the Bike Oven, the Bicycle Kitchen, Bikerowave, LACBC, and the Bicycle Film Festival. BTW, if you want to get involved in bike activism there are a T O [...]

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Alex on Emerald City – Riding Your Bike is the Best Activism

Alex on Emerald City – Riding Your Bike is the Best Activism

I wrote a piece on Emerald City last week that I’m actually pretty proud of. I’m sort of a perfectionist and rarely happy with what I write, but this turned out well. It also features a pretty cool picture of Kieron, the iconic organizer of CRANK MOB. Please go read it! Perceived as dangerous and [...]

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Alex on Emerald City – The DIY Bike Community

I wrote a piece for Emerald City Wednesday, which is much less fluffy than the other pieces.  It’s a downright rant, so if you like that sort of thing then go read it.  Here’s a quote:  The only reasonable way to interpret the city’s inaction is as a  collective “Go **** Yourself” to cyclists.  Punk [...]

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Post at Emerald City by Alex: Cyclists Are Your Friends

Last week I polled y’all to find out if you wanted me to post the articles I’m writing for the LA Times blog Emerald City here as well. Ten people voted yes, four voted no, and four voted for posting only the stuff I thought you’d like. That’s not exactly a mandate for the “yes”s, [...]

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Poll: Alex is Writing Weekly for an LA Times Blog Now. Also Post That Writing Here?

Poll: Alex is Writing Weekly for an LA Times Blog Now. Also Post That Writing Here?

Ridazz, I’ve been invited to write once a week for an LA Times Blog on green living: Emerald City. Thanks Siel! I’ll be writing articles about bike culture, biking in LA, and bike activism for the uninitiated. You, my readers, are already initiated, so I wonder if you’d be interested in what I’m writing over [...]

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