We Need to Hear From You!Help shape the Healthy Living Network & Opportunities Map
Seeking to connect with others trying to improve health? Join the new free Buncombe County Healthy Living Network and get connected. Please take 3 minutes to fill out your profile and connect to other organization, neighborhood groups, and efforts working together to improve health.
Filling out the 3 minute survey is the key way to list your initiative / effort in the developing Healthy Living Directory. Help us help you – and publicize your effort to other potential collaborators and volunteers.
To complete the survey visit; http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dDR6Sk9keEFZVk94ZUV2MjRWUjFSWmc6MQ
We also need your help to design the Healthy Living Opportunities Map. A local team is creating a web map of many opportunities for healthy living in Buncombe County. What would YOU like to easily find on a community map? Follow the link below and take the 2 minute survey to share your ideas http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dGpDb1dQSzg1TXFNZVpHcGpLV2doQWc6MQ#gid=0
American Great Outdoors The White House Initiative on America's Great Outdoors, or AGO, is coming to a town near you, with public listening sessions slated for July and August. These sessions pose a great opportunity for mountain bikers to help shape national policies on recreation and conservation. One of the stated AGO goals is to inspire Americans to support community-based efforts. Because IMBA-SORBA clubs are often at the forefront of such initiatives it's important to attend these sessions and ensure our efforts get noticed. Mountain Xpress video coverage of the Strive Not To Drive 2010 Mayor's Leadership RideReport of Harassment or Dangerous Roadway/Sidewalk ConditionsHelp us collect information on dangerous situations for individuals using all forms of transportation in Asheville and Buncombe County. We (the Bicycle and Pedestrian Task Force) are collecting this information to help us advocate for improved bicycle and walking conditions. We do not plan to share individual names but will use this information in determining if there are certain areas where problems are occurring and to help the local transportation staff and police develop policies and plans to deal with issues. Please note, this is NOT a police report. Serious incidents SHOULD be reported to the police. About Our ProgramHealthy Buncombe partners with many community organizations to provide bicycle safety and skill education. We are very involved in state and local advocacy efforts for policy and environmental approaches that make cycling a safe and viable option for our community. Our many activities include:
... In the News1/27/10 Bicycle Education Volunteer Training February 13th and Request for Volunteers at Owen Middle School education events in March. We have been asked to provide bicycle education for all 8th grade students at the middle school. This is a very volunteer-intensive event, but a wonderful opportunity. For detailed information go to Smart Cycling for Owen Middle School. 1/11/10 With recent events there has been a lot of discussion about safety and family cycling! Here is an excellent blog posts that really covers the issue well. http://totcycle.com/blog/is-family-cycling-safe.html 1/11/09 Countering the "liberal image" of bicycle and pedestrian advocacy. Here is an excellent blog posting from Connecticutt about the strong convervative case for support http://bit.ly/6s03rq. 1/5/09 Public Invited to Design Work Session for the Patton/ 1-26 Corridor Thursday January 7th from 4-8 at the Asheville Design Center on College Street. For more information: http://docs.google.com/View?id=dcdrh963_49d8498nhn 9/28/09 Walk Bike Lansing has a great campaing to make the community a pedestrian and bike friendly city. The Lansing Walking & Bicycling Task Force, part of the Mid-Michigan Environmental Action Council put the campaign together to engage and mobilize Lansing, Michigan residents to make Lansing an accessible and walk and bike friendly city. Due largely to grass roots efforts, the Lansing City Council adopted a Complete Streets Ordinance on August 17, 2009. More information about Walk and Bike Lansing! can be found at http://www.walkbikelansing.com/ . Contact information is at the bottom of the home page.8/18/09 League of American Bicyclist Report on Economic Benefits of Bicyling cites NC Outer Banks experience. Asheville Citizen-Times May 5, 2009 Highlights our 08-09 Eat Smart Move More Community Grant and the Erwin Middle School Bike club and the Bicycle Rodeo program. Evergreen Charter School Earth Day Bike rodeo Featured on WLOS's Never Stop Learning segment with Tammy Watford. Watch the Video Here Claudia Nix, Chair of Healthy Buncombe's Active Community Team, presented information on our bicycle education and advocacy efforts to City Council on April 28th. To watch the web stream of the City Council meeting click here. Claudia's presentation begins at the 1 hour and 1 minute point on the webstream. Claudia and Rachel also appeared recently on WCQS Evening Rounds to talk about bicycle education and advocacy. We hope to provide a link to that broadcast soon. Bicycle Rodeo Program SurveyIf you participated in the recent Bicyle Rodeo please take a few minutes to provide us some feedback. There is a survey for those who volunteered with the rodeo and another for our "stakeholders" (partners in our education initiatiaves, parents, teachers, school administrators etc...). Please feel out both is you feel it is appropriate. Regarding the volunteer survey.... It may seem a little long. This is because we have a set of questions for every so that we can assess how well each one works. However it shouldn't take more than 15 minutes. |
Process for Conducting a Bicycle Education Event
Bicycle Education & Advocacy CalendarMaterials for VolunteersThe Bicycle Rodeo Progarm Manual, the rodeo volunteer guide and supplemental materials are available in PDF form form this site. To access the files however, you must be actively engaged in the bicycle rodeo program and be added to the access list. For more information contact Terri March at terrizmarch@gmail.com.
Report your Advocacy or Education Activity!Conducted a class, given a presentation or an interview to the press, spoke up at a City Council meeting....help us keep track of these activities. Take a few minutes to complete this very brief form. Just CLICK ON THIS LINK and enter the information that applies to your activity. Thank you for all the work you do! View photos from our Bike Rodeo Program |
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Buncombe Safe Routes Safe Rides (BSR2) - Bicycle & Pedestrian Education & Advocacy
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