#publichumanities #whatisagoodlife #busesareforeveryone

“Over half of households that depend on GRTC earn less than $25,000 a year, and 80% of those riders are employed. Fares are also a regressive tax: Those who can least afford to pay are often the ones spending the most.” 🚍🚏 Richard Hankins RVA Rapid Transit richmond.com/zzstyling/view…

We were delighted to award Sam Rasoul 🍉 a framed Islamic Declaration on Global Climate Change! Thank you for faithfully working to advance environmental justice and to protect Virginians from the effects of the climate crisis. #environmentaljustice #ClimateAction

From Car Required to Car Optional. That is the future I want to see for the United States. One where whether or not you own a car has little impact on your ability to live a meaningful life with access to opportunity. The freedom to choose how you get around.

Did you know the 2023-2024 CreatureKind Fellowship Applications are open worldwide? ⁠ If you're an environmentalist, Christian animal advocate, food/seed/land sovereignty activist, or food security advocate this program might be for you! ⁠ Apply here: tinyurl.com/mj986n8t

Let’s add one nuance to this popular cartoon. The dude in his car taking 1/3 of the street space might also be a victim of oppression. He might be a low-income person who’s forced to own and drive a car for lack of options, and who is poorer as a result … 1/

It's Ride The Bus Week! Join us and Virginia IPL. Ride the bus for a day or week, and be part of a movement to prioritize public transportation.

As floods & fires rise, oceans boil & ice melts, and "safe" temperatures are breached, something momentous just happened in the heart of the EU. No one has heard about it: journalists were present, but their editors refused to publish 🤯. 🧵, please RT. #BeyondGrowth2023 1/

Proud to lead my Virginia House colleagues Rep. Don Beyer, Rep. Gerry Connolly, Archive: Rep. Abigail Spanberger, Rep. Bobby Scott, & Rep. Jennifer Wexton in submitting an amendment to strip the Mountain Valley Pipeline from the bipartisan budget agreement. The MVP has nothing to do with our nation's spending.

An open memo to the Secretary of Defense.

“One of the things we tracked today were looking at bus stops, is there a sidewalk, is there a curb cut, is there a shelter, are there benches? There are over 800 bus stops in the City of Roanoke. Many bus stops have a sign and nothing else.” 🚏 WFXR News wfxrtv.com/news/local-new…

Among our latest Ramblings, we report on: 🚍 A bus ride raising awareness of public transit accessibility 👮‍♀️Roanoke's search for its next police chief 💸 The money race for Roanoke Valley's state Senate seat roanokerambler.com/ramblings-bus-…

“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath fastcompany.com/3062989/50-rea…

So excited to work on this!!

Cool to see my poem, “shall I compare thee to the anthrop’cene” in this new anthology!

Bus shelters don't have to be boring...

The mobilizing power of youth in planning. I made a 5-minute video summarizing our participatory action research project to address adaptation to rising temperatures in Roanoke, VA: youtu.be/WEM5ASM-QXY?si…

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