Hi SafeWalkers,
We have two upcoming info sessions for anyone interested in participating as a volunteer in 2009:
Monday, April 6 at 7 pm at the Verb Cafe in Williamburg (Bedford Avenue at N 5th St)
Tuesday, April 7 at 7 pm at Park Slope Ale House (356 Sixth Avenue at 4th Street)
We hope to see you at one of these info sessions! Again, you can find more info and updates at Right rides and Safe Walk @ Twitter
Best,
SafeWalk
to all the lovely ladies and gentlemen who came out on Sunday for our first ride.
It was a great way to kick off the season.
Stay tuned for pics.
Check this blog or our facebook group page for updates on our next ride through Queens on April 25th.
Bikes, Spain, archival footage
We hope you can join us this SUNDAY MARCH 29TH as we bring in the spring with a ride around Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, followed by a casual bagel brunch at Ginger’s on 5th ave and 5th st.
If you have one, please wear your t-shirt!
T-shirts can still be purchased through our paypal account. If you would like to have the shirt at the ride please order by tonight and email us at dykesonbikecycles@gmail.com. We have mostly larges left.
For the Ride:
Meeting Time: 1pm
Location: Grand Army Plaza – where the farmers market usually is
For Gingers:
Meeting Time: 3pm
Location: Gingers on 5th ave between 6th and 5th st in Park Slope
*****WEATHER ALERT:
For those of you who rode with us at Brooklyn or NYC Pride last year, ya’ll know DOB-Cers are not afraid of a little rain! But since this isn’t a planned parade we’re taking the dry route and just meeting at Gingers sans bike ride if its raining on Sunday.
If it’s raining at noon we will not be meeting at Grand Army Plaza but instead gathering at Gingers around 2pm.
Please RSVP to dykesonbikecycles@gmail.com if you plan on coming on sunday so we know to expect you!
See you sunday!!
Hey riders its almost time to celebrate the spring! Come out to PROSPECT PARK in Brooklyn for Dykes on Bike Cycles’ first ride of the season. We will be meeting at GRAND ARMY PLAZA @ 1 p.m.
Brunch meet-up at Ginger’s Bar after the ride @ 3 p.m.
Address:
363 5th Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11215
(718) 788-0924
RSVP Strongly recommended to dykesonbikecycles@gmail.com
$3 donation suggested to go towards said food and pride registration.
Join our facebook group for more details or just visit the ride page.
See you guys there!
All sorts of information about how the Bush administration mis-managed certain assets and policies have been creeping up since Barack Obama took office. This morning in the NY Times, Matthew L. Wald, covers one of the financial screw-ups of the Energy Department in 2008.
There were plans to fund Futuregen, a company who stood to be the leader in capturing carbon dioxide. The technology could be used to create coal processing plants with zero emissions of gas contributing the most to global warming. Seventy-four percent of funding was to come from federal government while the rest was coming from foreign investments from China and India. However, when the U.S Energy Department analyzed the cost on their end they ended up adding two set of numbers that they shouldn’t have and it severely inflated the expected cost causing the program to be shut down. “The Bush administration said the projected cost had nearly doubled, to $1.8 billion from $950 million; the auditors said it had gone to $1.3 billion, up 39 percent.”
Now after closer detail the Government Accountability department has discover the 1.3 billion number was definitely not correct.
Unfortunately, as a result of the shut down the program and the technology may be pushed back 10 years.
Steven Chu,new energy secretary, has stated he wants to re-examine the program even though, now changes will need to be made.
But, of course, like much of the previous administration’s conduct things aren’t that innocent. “The staff of the House committee found internal communications indicating that the leaders of the Energy Department were looking for reasons to kill the project.”
Surprise Surprise
For those of you who are our friends on facebook and are in nyc please join us for the series finale of the L word. Just add Candice Williamson as a friend and she’ll give you details for tomorrow’s partay. You can find her name in the administrator’s box on the right site of our group page.
And don’t forget tomorrow’s daylight savings.
Colorado Sate University researchers sent a satellite into orbit in attempts to study global warming effects over the next two years. Unfortunately, the satellite crashed near Antarctica shortly after its launch when its covered failed to remove itself from the satellite and it became to heavy to make it to orbit.
The project cost $280 million and would have spanned 9 years. It is also potentially slowing down the project after it, Glory, “which was designed to gather information about solar radiation and airborne particles reflecting sunlight”.
The National Academy of Sciences has stated that NASA, essentially, needs to pick up the pace on studying global warming instead of focusing on planets we can’t inhabit.
As much of a sci-fi nerd as I am I’m inclined to agree. I’m, all for exploring the universe but we’re not going to make it very far if we’re not here.
Its really difficult not to get cynical about the debate on global warming which despite the trend is still up for argument. On a completely irritated level it seems stupid to me to deny the change happening on the planet but that argument won’t get you very far. So I say even if Global Warming is made up by some gay AIDS infected left-wing anarchist hippies why not invest in efficiency simply for the sake of efficiency. We shouldn’t have to wait two years for the results of some satellite readings to get moving on progress.
Even if we weren’t affecting our environment shouldn’t we be constantly moving forward on making things run better?
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