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EARTH DAY Saturday, April 15.

Meeting Announcement

- Sustainable Transport Club Meeting April 8^th

Sustainable Transportation Club Meeting Results from March

Sustainable Transport Primer

- Out line and draft of first section on line

Report on Bio Diesel Coop Status

Bio Diesel Pump coming to the Pacific Palisades

Flexcar One of Our Sustainable Solutions

Green Drinks – Good idea for building the Green Community

April 6^th

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EARTH DAY Saturday, April 15.

The Earth day event is becoming an incredible thing. The

Sustainable Transport Club is joining forces with other groups

to show what is possible for an environmentally sound solution to

our addiction to oil.

We are putting together a Sustainable Transport Village.

We are currently lined up to have - the Sustainable Transport Club,

the Green Depot, the Westside Greens, the LA Bicycle Coalition,

Flex car, the Sierra Club, the Santa Barbara Electric Bicycle

Company and the big blue buss in our village. We will have a bio

diesel vehicle maybe two, a RAV4 EV, a Gem Neighborhood

electric vehicle, possible the Vectrix motor scooter, the E-Max

German engineered electric motor scooter, the EVT motor scooter,

electric bikes and skateboards and some of the most interesting

bicycles going.

This should really get people’s attention and give us a chance to

get people on the Sustainability band wagon – or is that the bus –

or is that the train….

Please let us know if you can volunteer to help people by showing

up to help answer questions and get more people on our mailing

lists etc. email us at electric@sustainabletransportclub.com

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Meeting Announcement

Sustainable transport Club Meeting Saturday April 8th

10:00AM

Unurban Café, 33RD & PICO (across from Trader Joes)

Santa Monica, CA 90405

Proposed Agenda

Preparing for EARTHDAY

Next Step in Developing the Sustainable Transport Primer

(The outline for the Primer and a draft of a few sections is online at

www.sustainabletransportclub.com. Feel free to put your contact

info in the sign up while visiting – It helps get the newsletters out)

How to get the Primer to help other communities

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Sustainable Transportation Club Meeting Results from March

EARTHDAY

The Club agreed to make a go of things at Earthday and we are

working together toward that end – see the great announcement at

the top of this newsletter. There is lots of tabling to do and

opportunities to show what we are about from bikes to bio-diesel

and EV’s. Please get in touch to tell us how you want to help out.

Electric@sustainabletransportclub.com

SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT PRIMER

We developed a working outline for the primer and the group is

building the content. The outline and the current version of the

Primer can be found on line at

http://www.sustainabletransportclub.com/

Feel free to check it out and see if you would like to contribute to

this effort.

The Primer is intended to convey the vision and the possibilities

for a future with transportation that runs on renewable energy that

is environmentally sound. It is a step in the process of getting local

government to get with the program.

GREEN DEPOT

We moved forward in our support for the Green Depot and turned

in close to fifty signatures supporting the idea. The Depot would

give us a central location to get sustainable transport to be a reality

in Santa Monica.

We will discuss what the next steps will be at the

next Sustainable Transport Club meeting scheduled below.

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SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT PRIMER

The Primer is intended to be a way to get people to start working

on building sustainable solutions to:

Oil Addiction

Environmental issues of air and water pollution

Traffic Congestion and

Parking Problems

Here is part of the description of what the solution might look like:

“The roads are filled with a wide range of vehicles. They include

everything from lots of bicycles and scooters up to cars and trucks

running on renewable clean fuels. The young people and the

physically vigorous ones are using everything from standup

scooters, skates, skateboards and bicycles to get what they need

from within their communities. The busy moms and dads are

getting their errands done more quickly and easily with things like

electric mopeds, the Seqways and neighborhood electric vehicles

that go up to thirty miles an hour. The seniors and those with

physical challenges are using a range of mobility scooters.”

You can help to create this primer and build this vision into a

compelling factor that helps create the changes we need. The

current draft of what we are working on is online to get you up to

speed. It includes the outline and some of the draft text.

We will need help not just with the ideas but with the production

as well. Professional level editing, photo’s and layout help will all

be welcome. What part can you play to help bring this together?

Check it out and see what you can do to help. www.sustainabletransportclub.com

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Report on Bio Diesel Coop Status –

The Co-op will be doing outreach at various Earthday events. We

hope to have at least one person with us on April 15^th to help get

people involved in the co-op – could that be you?

Other people will be going to similar events around the area that

weekend and on the following weekend so there is lots of chances

to get involved and help get this to happen.

Contact through
membership@sustainableoptions.com

The Co-op is moving forward solidly. They are getting their

organization structure built up and their insurance going. The Bio

Diesel fueling trailer in the Marina Del Ray area is online and

working well. It even has a nice logo on the side.

You still have the opportunity to get on board as they are still

accepting members.

Go to www.biodiesel-coop.org

To get more information

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Bio Diesel Pump in the Pacific Palisades

Yes that is renewable energy fuel on the West side now!

The USA gas station is operating a bio-diesel pump at their

station in the Pacific Palisades. This is the first public

access pump in the area.

There is a requirement that you be a member of the Co-op or of the

Bio Diesel Users group to get fuel. This has something to do with

the use permit. These links will let you do that.

Go to www.biodiesel-coop.org

Or to http://www.socalbug.org , or http://www.sustainableoptions.com/socalbug-info.html

To get more information

Or you can call the station

Congratulations to the Co-op and all the Bio-d pioneers in our area

who have helped make this happen.

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Flexcar One of Our Sustainable Solutions

Flexcar fills the missing link between public and personal

transportation, and allows you to have a car whenever you need

one without the financial commitment of auto ownership.

Members pay a $40 annual fee and are billed monthly for the hours

they use. Flexcar pays for gas, maintenance, premium insurance

and 24-hour roadside assistance. Many of out vehicles are hybrid

Honda Civics, complete with HOV stickers that let you zip through

traffic in the carpool lane. The vehicles are parked all around town

in convenient public lots and parking garages. Members make

reservations online or by telephone, walk to their chosen car, swipe

a smartcard to open the vehicle, and away they go. Find out more

about Flexcar the will be Sustainable Transportation Village at

Earth Day LA.

Flexcar invite’s the Sustainable Transportation Club to join

Flexcar’s Spring Fling. Go to www.flexcar.com to find out how

you can have your annual fee waived.

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Green Drinks – Good idea for building the Green Community

Great turnout again this month on the West Side,

a late crowd set another attendance high (39) with 11 new comers.

Keep spreading the word to all of your green friends,

we are growing fast!

West Side Green Drinks is still the 1st Thursday of the month,

April 6th

West Side LA Green Drinks

Thursday, April 6th, 2006

6pm-???

Duke's Hideaway at the Culver Hotel

9400 Culver Blvd.

Culver City, CA 90232

www.culverhotel.com

310.838.7963

Remember-

If anyone wants to bring literature to promote their green issue

please do so-we will have an area for brochures, business cards,

etc. We will also take back any extra literature back and bring

them to the next Green Drinks.

The main thing is just to relax and have a good time.

Bookmark this blog for future updates

http://lagreendrinks.blogspot.com

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