Generating a new idea.
So after two great days in a row, today was a flop. Got the weekly done with the boys, and I did have enough sense to stay in out of the heat, at least. I was hoping to edit all my papers, and with luck remember the 8th subject I'd come up with and lost, but didn't remember #8 and upon reading the existing 7 didn't find the lacunae I had been expecting to fill. And then it took me six hours to figure out that I was stuck and move on to something else.
So far I've located 3 other organizations with youth-related foci: Sunrise, Renew Oregon, and the Wayfinding Academy. (NextUp and Portland Forward were already on the list.) Sunrise and Renew are both heavily climate-oriented, and none of my ideas so far have been both climate-centered and human-scaled. So I should come up with one. Or a few.
The two most immediate would be bikes and public transit. If we could make operating cars in the City more expensive, that would a.) provide funds and b.) discourage car use and thus encourage any other form of transit. My first idea is raising the rates on parking meters combined with increasing the taxes on for-profit parking spaces, such as parking garages. Extending metered parking to more areas such as the inner East side should also be part of that. That should go along with specific recommendations for how to use the funds to improve bike and other nonmotorized transport.
We have hordes of those electric rent-a-scooters sitting around also. I do wonder what's going to happen with them when some of the companies providing them go bankrupt, which is I suspect inevitable.
Bedtime.
So far I've located 3 other organizations with youth-related foci: Sunrise, Renew Oregon, and the Wayfinding Academy. (NextUp and Portland Forward were already on the list.) Sunrise and Renew are both heavily climate-oriented, and none of my ideas so far have been both climate-centered and human-scaled. So I should come up with one. Or a few.
The two most immediate would be bikes and public transit. If we could make operating cars in the City more expensive, that would a.) provide funds and b.) discourage car use and thus encourage any other form of transit. My first idea is raising the rates on parking meters combined with increasing the taxes on for-profit parking spaces, such as parking garages. Extending metered parking to more areas such as the inner East side should also be part of that. That should go along with specific recommendations for how to use the funds to improve bike and other nonmotorized transport.
We have hordes of those electric rent-a-scooters sitting around also. I do wonder what's going to happen with them when some of the companies providing them go bankrupt, which is I suspect inevitable.
Bedtime.