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	<title>Undriving and Undriver Licensing</title>
	<link>http://undriving.blogs.sustainableballard.org</link>
	<description>\"not take a ride to work ever. It\'s just as easy to walk &#38; I get to read poetry.\" -Mimi</description>
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		<title>Sampling of Stories from Undriver Surveys</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New Patterns established as a result of Undriving program:

• The biggest thing is being much more willing to bike in the rain – got good rain gear and got over the idea that it was too uncomfortable.
• I am now busing to work everyday.  We leave our car parked for five days a week. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://undriving.blogs.sustainableballard.org/2008/06/18/sampling-of-stories-from-undriver-surveys/</link>
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		<title>Towards Carfree Cities Conference in Portland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the first time, the annual &#8220;Towards Carfree Cities&#8221; international conference is being held in the US - in Portland, June 16-20.   Check out the stellar lineup of speakers, programs, and experiences on wheels.  Many presentations will be webcast!
Here&#8217;s a great article on the conference in the Portland Tribune:
Summit Drives Home Reasons to Curb Cars
We&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://undriving.blogs.sustainableballard.org/2008/06/15/towards-carfree-cities-conference-in-portland/</link>
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		<title>Wake Up, America. We&#8217;re Driving Toward Disaster.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In case we aren&#8217;t convinced, James Kunstler&#8217;s piece in the Washington Post paints a compelling picture of why Undriving matters.
Wake Up, America. We&#8217;re Driving Toward Disaster 
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		<link>http://undriving.blogs.sustainableballard.org/2008/06/15/wake-up-america-were-driving-toward-disaster/</link>
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		<title>UNDRIVING - we and the Earth are worth it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We got this message from an enthusiastic Undriver who got licensed at Sustainable West Seattle&#8217;s Festival:
Hey all,
I&#8217;m writing to report what a success Undriving has been for me! It is so helpful to have made the pledge to walk all places possible in my West Seattle neighborhood. Each day, I consider where I can walk [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://undriving.blogs.sustainableballard.org/2008/06/15/undriving-we-and-the-earth-are-worth-it/</link>
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		<title>Article on METRO mini-vacations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With gas prices so high, there&#8217;s a rush of interest in getting around without a car.   Here&#8217;s an article from the Seattle Times on getting out and adventuring on King County METRO: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/outdoors/2004429781_nwwtransittour220.html
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		<link>http://undriving.blogs.sustainableballard.org/2008/06/15/article-on-metro-mini-vacations/</link>
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		<title>Get to the mountains by bus!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a great article in the Seattle P-I on using public transportation to get to hiking destinations and more.  Undriving to go hiking IS possible!  See you on the bus&#8230;.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/366558_bustravel11.html
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		<link>http://undriving.blogs.sustainableballard.org/2008/06/15/get-to-the-mountains-by-bus/</link>
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		<title>Air Cars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the launch of EcoApril Alignment Month last week at City Hall, we met Callum, a 14-year-old Undriving enthusiast and student at Einstein Middle School.  He told us about Air Cars, and sent us the following info to peruse:
Hey this is Callum!
Turns out there&#8217;s been a whole bunch of developments on the air powered [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://undriving.blogs.sustainableballard.org/2008/04/09/73/</link>
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		<title>New discovery: busing at night</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Margaret Kitchell got her Undriver License at Focus the Nation at the UW on January 31.  She participated in our follow-up survey, and was chosen at random to receive our prize, a $100 gift certificate to Enlighten!  
Margaret reported that she established a new pattern from her Undriving pledge:
&#8220;I already walk and use the bus [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://undriving.blogs.sustainableballard.org/2008/03/28/new-discovery-busing-at-night/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;My feet and the bus are my best friends!&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An Undriver licensed at the Sustainable Ballard Festival last October sent us this report - thanks, Scott!

&#8220;I really never drive any more, my feet and the bus are my best friends! At this point I am trying to encourage my friends who have cars to make walks when they are doable.  -Scott Davis
P.S. thanks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://undriving.blogs.sustainableballard.org/2008/03/28/my-feet-and-the-bus-are-my-best-friends/</link>
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		<title>A Licensed Undriver given license to try again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This just in from Angela, an Undriving team member who helped with the Undriver Licensing Station at Focus the Nation:I was on the 44 this morning and a man I noticed came up to me and said: “so, if I did not fulfill my pledge, do I need to give my undrivers license back?” I said:“no, that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://undriving.blogs.sustainableballard.org/2008/03/26/a-licensed-undriver-given-license-to-try-again/</link>
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