Full Steam Ahead to Purple Colored Progress

The Purple Line is a great concept that has been poorly promoted. The low-budget Web site helpfully points out that “existing roads are highly congested, and commuting times continue to increase [and] existing east-west bus services are unreliable and slow.” Hey, people! We Washingtonians may relish the great radio stations that are born out of the ubiquitos [...]

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Baltimore Should be Bike Smart, too

We know Washington, DC loves to call itself a “world city” (U Street does have a lot of ethnic food joints) but today was a globally-cool day for our nation’s capital. Today, the innovative SmartBike program kicked off. As the Washington Post crowed, “Today the city will join the ranks of Paris and Barcelona with [...]

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Rejecting President Bush’s call to greenlight offshore oil drilling, Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley endorsed wind farms 12 miles off the coast of Delaware and Maryland, the Baltimore Sun reports today. Ocean City and Rehobeth beachgoers would barely see the 40 foot-high turbines–especially during our smoggy summers, noted John Hughes, Delaware’s secretary of natural resources and environmental control. 150 [...]

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Hey, check out my dad on tv “selling mo …

Hey, check out my dad on tv. He’s at the state legislative hearings on energy conservation. He says, ”selling more electricity means we’re going to burn more coal and have more pollution.” Yeah conservation!!
Click here to view the clip (at top right of the page).

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