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The Daily Republican Register in Illinois picked up the story that 24-year-old Aaron Fredrick of Richmond is cycling across the country right now to decide where he’ll study environmental engineering. He’s headed to California: Aaron says he was thinking about the environment and the pollution problems created by vehicles. “Sure we have to drive places,”
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Prophets Fest is a 24-hour music and camping festival held each year on a bucolic family farm three miles south of Richmond. This year’s event begins on August 28th, 2010. All genres of music can be heard (and danced to), including Reggae, Rock, Dubstep, Funk, Jam, Bluegrass, and more. Camping is included and encouraged
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On Wednesday, August 18 and Thursday, August 19, transportation planners from LSL Planning and Parsons Brinkerhoff will be in town to meet with people who have thoughts and suggestions on improving alternative transportation modes in Richmond, Indiana. The result of the meetings will be a transportation plan that will replace the City of Richmond’s existing
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RichmondBrainstorm.com may be an online destination, but it was created to help make the real world a better place. The new website collects ideas from Richmond, Indiana residents about how to make the community a better place to live, work and play. Visitors to the site can submit their ideas into a number of categories
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On Wednesday July 2nd, 2008, Progressive Wayne County sponsored a 100-Mile Radius Potluck in Richmond. You can view highlights from the event in this YouTube video:
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On April 24, 2008, Richmond will be celebrating its designation as an Indiana CLEAN Community. The Indiana Comprehensive Local Environmental Action Network (CLEAN) Community Challenge is a voluntary recognition program for local Indiana government. CLEAN helps communities take steps to plan, develop, and implement a quality of life plan. This plan includes gathering input and
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Chris Hardie writes: This blog entry is a repository of personal “action items” that I suggest when I give my talk entitled “Going Local: Building a Self-Reliant Richmond, Indiana.” As I say in the talk: You may already know a lot of this stuff I don’t like telling people how to live, and I very
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Chris Hardie writes: As a part of my work on the committees that are implementing the Comprehensive Plan that Richmond recently developed, I created a list (with some help from Mark) of some transportation goals that have a focus on alternative transportation (read: goals that don’t celebrate car culture). Here’s what I came up with,
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Richmond, IN – Mayor Sally Hutton will sign the U. S. Conference of Mayor’s Climate Protection Agreement on Tuesday, August 28, 2007, at 5:00 P.M., at the Richmond/Wayne County Environmental Awareness Council meeting. The public is invited to attend the signing in the Community Room, 2nd Floor of the City Municipal Building, 50 North 5th
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Mark Stosberg wrote, “I’m setting up a discussion group for all things bicycle-related around Richmond, Indiana. This will include announcements of upcoming rides and discussions of how to make this a better community for cyclists. Whether you want to participate actively or infrequently, I encourage to you to join, because Google has options to allow
The Richmond Bicycle Map is now available free to the public. The maps recommended bike routes around the city as well as providing useful information for current and potential bike commuters. The primary distribution locations are Ike’s Bikes and the Cycling and Fitness Warehouse. A preview of the map is available on Mark’s Bike’s as Transportation blog, along with details how of the map came about.
