We held Walk It! Bike It! open input sessions at the end of 2019 and fielded all sorts of great ideas for the coming year. While the committee has been ticking off the boxes on our safety and public education initiatives for a couple years now, we want to start pursuing the idea of building […]
2020 Fall CLEANUP WILL TAKE PLACE SUNDAY, NOV 8 (raindate Saturday, Nov 14), from 2 to 4!!! It's been an odd year, to say the least, and we haven't held any of our usual cleanups. Even the Fall In-River Cleanup didn't happen. (Though we did figure out that there's actually a sweet spot for the […]
A(1) Something you can volunteer to help us with. See below for details! A(2) A cutting from a species of plant that can itself be planted to grow a new plant. These cuttings are from one to several feet long. They get pushed or pounded into the ground, rooting end down, in the moist areas […]
There are some competing tree promotion campaigns bouncing around the conservation community right now. The top two are pretty close to each other and also seem to almost (but not quite) capture the brainworm prize. The first is from the Chesapeake Bay Conservancy braintrust and the second from the Stroud Water Research Center: Clean Water […]
To learn more about this topic, please consider consulting some of the following resources: The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein (book)Segregated by Design, documentary based on The Color of Law (film short)Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism, James Loewen (book)Long Island Divided, investigative journalism on current racial discrimination in real estate, Newsday (article)Kept […]
Bicycle Infrastructure Best Practices Tour -- Minneapolis and St. Paul At the end of August 2019, Bicycle South Central PA sent a group of people to Minneapolis, MN for a Bicycle Infrastructure Best Practices Tour led by a representative from Quality Bicycle Parts (QBP). The goal of the tour was to provide a fast but […]
Members of the community working together to preserve natural settings and streetscapes, strengthen ties among neighbors, and improve the quality of life in Lewisburg for residents and visitors.