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Plans and discussions rolled around our town for years. How could we make Bike-Sharing services feasible here in The Lou?
In April, 2018 - just in time for Earth Day! - the cycle-access techno-breakthrough that is Limebike sped past barriers, onto our streets. Today, that first neon fleet of 1,500 Limebikes has multiplied. These Global Cooling Devices and humans of all kinds are moving each other around STL, safely and sustainably, at public attractions and in our city neighborhoods.
David Woronets, Lime Operations Manager, details how Lime is peddling Smart Mobility with great success, and how St. Louis is leading the pack of U.S. Lime markets.
Down the road? Lime electric scooters - and more!
Music: Deep Gap, performed live at KDHX by Marisa Anderson
THANKS to Anna Holland, Earthworms engineer
More Earthworms Conversational Cruises:
Great Rivers Greenway St Louis Bike Routes (April 2015)
RideFinders: Carpooling Made E-Z (May 2018)
Brothers Jeff and Randy Vines are turning 40 (local-speak sez Farty).
Their upbeat, Ham-on-Wry style - and their business STL-Style - helps power the ultra-diverse, collaborative renewal of their city 'hood, Cherokee Street.
These sons of STL suburbia, who went into advertising, know how to put their love of City into action. Their choice of digs on Cherokee, in South St. Louis, is a perfect place to invest their prodigious love-work resources. And to hawk the "St. Louis inspired apparel, merch and curiosities" that deck their corner store.
This conversation is a valentine to City of St. Louis life, from these uber-articulate bros and City-dweller Earthworms host Jean Ponzi.
New bedazzle on Vines' place is the eye-popping swirly-hue giant mural by daughter-father artist team Liza Fishbone and Robert Fishbone. A Fartieth BD present to themselves gifts big beauty to their City too!
More Art-Related Earthworms: Enviro-Cartoonist Joe Mohr (November 2015)
Joan Lipkin: Theater Takes On Climate Change (October 2017)
Filmmaker Caitlin Zera: From The Pipeline (January 2016)
Chalk Riot: Woman-Powered Street Art (May 2018)
Music: Cherokee Nights, performed live at KDHX by Messy Jiverson
THANKS to Anna Holland, engineering Earthworms
When a material (like paper) or a container (like a bottle or a can) has served its original purpose and still has useful life remaining, that material will remain in use as ingredients in recycled-content products - if you put it in your recycling bin. But not everything should go in that bin.
Bob Henkel manages Recycling On The Go for St. Louis Earth Day. He has BIN there & done that Green thang at hundreds of events, with thousand of humans. He know his recycling stuff. So does Earthworms host Jean Ponzi.
This conversation sorts through - literally! - what can and cannot be recycled, and why it's important not to use that Blue Bin as a catch-all for stuff you WISH could continue to be useful, if somebody else does something with it.
Coming up June 30, 2018: the second Recycling Extravaganza collection this year for hard-to-recycle stuff. Check it out - and remember to ONLY bring what will be accepted!
Global market shifts are puttin' the squeeze on our recycling industry. We need to work together with our recycling service pros to keep this fundamental Green activity functioning, solvent and useful.
Got Sustainable Living questions? Missouri Botanical Garden's Green Resources Answer Service will give you any possible reuse and recycling options for other stuff - plus advice on more, FREE!
Music: Washboard Suzie, performed live at KDHX by Zydeco Crawdaddies
THANKS to Earthworms engineer, Ms. Anna Holland.
Related Earthworms Conversations: Life Without Plastic? (January 2018 and Barge-Based Trash Basher Chad Pregracke (March 2017)