Community Building Tip: Biking

For my current set of tips, I'm using the list "101 Small Ways You Can Improve Your City.

54. Just ride a bike. Yes, riding a bike really can save the world. According to a 2015 study by the University of California at Davis, shifting more urban trips to bicycling, and cutting car use accordingly, could reduce urban transportation CO2 emissions by 50 percent worldwide by 2050. That seems especially feasible when you consider that half of all urban trips are a very bikeable six miles or less.

This would be a lot more feasible if America had pedicabs like some other countries do, and if diverse types of bike were more widely available.

Fiction: "Coming in from the Cold: Monday: Renovations" Part 2

This story belongs to the series Love Is For Children which includes "Love Is for Children," "Hairpins," "Blended," "Am I Not," "Unworthy," "Eggshells," "Dolls and Guys," "Duende," "Saudades," "Querencia," "Turnabout Is Fair Play," "Touching Moments," "Splash," "Coming Around," "Birthday Girl," "No Winter Lasts Forever," "Hide and Seek," "Kernel Error," "Happy Hour," "Green Eggs and Hulk,""kintsukuroi," "Little and Broken, but Still Good," "Byzantine Perplexities," "Up the Water Spout," "The Life of the Dead," "What It Means to Me," "If They Could Just Stay Little," "Anahata," "When the Wheels Come Off," "Against His Own Shield," "Coming in from the Cold: Saturday: Building Towers," "Coming in from the Cold: Sunday: Shaking Foundations," "Coming in from the Cold: Monday: Memorial Day," "Coming in from the Cold: Tuesday: Facing Fears," "Coming in from the Cold: Wednesday: Coping Techniques," "Coming in from the Cold: Thursday: Digging for Answers," "Coming in from the Cold: Friday: Bug Hunt," "Coming in from the Cold: Saturday: Revisiting the Past," "What Little Boys Are Made Of," "Rotten Fruit," "Trying to Find Prui," "Life in Quicktime," "Sunday Dinner," "Cafuné," "Fatherboards and Other F-words," "The Artists Among Us," "Cool Digs," "Keep the Homefires Burning," "Their Old Familiar Carols Play," "Fluffy," "A Leg Up," "Wabbit Season," "No Quarrel with a Boot," "And You Became Like Coffee," and "A Painful Process."

Fandom: The Avengers
Characters: Hulk, Bucky Barnes, Phil Coulson, JARVIS, Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, Steve Rogers, Clint Barton, Natasha Romanova, Betty Ross.
Medium: Fiction
Warnings: Past Trauma, Anxiety, Secrets, Flashbacks, Arguments.
Summary: Tony widens the doorway between the common room and the kitchen, so Hulk can fit through it more comfortably. The Avengers talk over what happened between Hulk and Bucky.
Notes: Renovations, Teamwork, Training, Hugging, Food, No Sex, Intimacy, Non-Sexual Intimacy, Asexuality, Friendship, Team as Family, Avengers Family, Artificial Intelligence, Intellectual Foreplay, #coulsonlives.

Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6.

( Read more... )

Birdfeeding

Today is mostly clear and chilly, but nowhere near as cold as yesterday.

I fed the birds.  Lots of cardinals out today.  They were very confused because we hauled two armloads of wood into the house, so they kept flying back and forth trying to figure out if the feeders were available yet.