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4 Fascinating Facts about Bicycling and Walking

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Dear Daniel,     How does your state stack up on bicycling and walking?    Today, we are releasing Bicycling and Walking in the United States: 2014 Benchmarking Report, a massive compendium of data on bicycling and walking in all 50 states, the 52 largest U.S. cities, and a select number of midsized cities.    The Alliance produces the Benchmarking Report every two years in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Healthy Community Design Initiative. The report comprehensively examines bicycling and walking transportation across the U.S. and how these trends relate to public health, safety, and social and economic well being.   There's a TON of really fascinating data in this year's Alliance Benchmarking Report. See for yourself: download the 2014 Benchmarking Report.       For a sneak peek, check out four of the most fascinating facts from the report below.     1. We're seeing small but steady increases in the number of people biking and walking to work.   The average large American city experienced a 5.9% increase in population from 2000 to 2010 without comparable increases in land mass, and budgets are tight across the board. Both of these factors point to a need to find cost-effective modes of transportation that move people without taking up more space.           2. There are lower bicyclist and pedestrian fatalities where there are more people are biking and walking.   There is safety in numbers.    In the graph below, orange dots represent pedestrian fatality rates -- i.e., the number of people who have died while walking as a portion of the number of people who walk to work. The grey line indicates the percentage of the population who bikes to work, and the green line shows correlation between the two.      3. More people tend to bike or walk to work when a city has strong biking and walking advocacy.    In 1996, there were just a handful of state and local biking and walking advocacy organizations and only 10 full time staff working on these issues. Now, there are over 230 state and local biking and walking advocacy groups and over 500 full time staff.    A growing number of concerned citizens are organizing for safer, more accessible streets for walking and bicycling.    And there is a positive correlation between the number of people who bike and walk to work in a city and the incomes and staff sizes of those cities' biking & walking advocacy organizations:       4. A large percentage of commuters bike and walk to work in Alaska, Oregon, Montana, New York, and Vermont.    Not so much in South Carolina, Atlanta, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas.    Here's a map of bicycling and walking levels by state across the country:        Think this is interesting? Download your copy of the 2014 Benchmarking Report here.       Best,  Mary Lauran Hall Communications Director

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Celebrate Earth Week with the Monterey Institute

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LA Times - EPA drastically underestimates methane released at drilling sites

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U.N. report spells out super-hard things we must do to curb warming | Grist

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Ontario Is Officially Coal-Free; Kansas RPS Survives Attack, For Now

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According to Southline Transmission LLC, a subsidiary of Hunt [read more] CalWEA Says 50% Renewables Target In California Is Possible, Affordable on 11 Apr 2014 by NAW Staff A recent study performed for California's five major utilities by the research firm Energy and Environmental Economics (E3) provides a roadmap for achieving 50% renewable energy by 2030 in the state with a relatively modest 2% impact on rates, or less, according to an analysis of the report by the [read more] Prowind Canada Chooses Senvion Turbines For Community Wind Farm on 11 Apr 2014 by NAW Staff Prowind Canada, in partnership with the Oxford Community Energy Co-op (OCEC), has signed a contract with Senvion for the delivery of 10 MM92 turbines on 100-meter towers for the Gunn's Hill Wind Farm. 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Located in the German North Sea, the project will feature a total of 80 Siemens 3.6 MW wind turbines, and Vattenfall says it expects to complete all installations by year-end, with [read more] CWind Nets Two-Year Offshore Contract Renewal With Siemens on 11 Apr 2014 by NAW Staff CWind, a U.K.-based offshore wind services company, has won a renewal of its contract to provide turbine technician services to Siemens. Over the next two years, CWind will be providing turbine technicians for the offshore installation of Siemens turbines during the construction of a number of U.K. offshore wind farms. [read more] Houston METRO Offsetting Electricity Use With Renewable Energy on 11 Apr 2014 by NAW Staff Retail electricity provider GDF SUEZ Energy Resources NA has signed a deal to supply the Houston METRO with renewable energy certificates (RECs). 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