Links to Great Resources
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Living Streets, U.K.: Step Up Barcelona 2008. Read the student blogs and the experiences of the teams from Darlington, U.K., and Barcelona.
www.stepup.org.uk/content/barcelona_08.php
The Big Step Up Debate. Listen to the interviews conducted by students at Walk21 Barcelona 2008.
www.stepup.org.uk/content/big_debate_ideas.php
The Ride2School program is an initiative of Bicycle Victoria, in Australia.
The program breaks down the barriers to more students walking and riding to school and beyond.
The program can be implemented as a Do It Yourself initiative – see
15 Easy Steps to Ride2School
Manitoba Student’s Transportation Network is a secondary school vehicle trip reduction program, modeled after BEST’s Off Ramp. They have some great resources and ideas, including making short films on the theme of transforming transportation for a film festival in Manitoba.
www.resourceconservation.mb.ca
The Easy Breathers site provides background information on transportation choices and pollution, as well as games to educate people about costs and consequences of transportation modes. Fun site!
www.extraordinaryroadtrip.org
Carbusters (based in Prague, Czech) is a really neat site, full of information. Look around for their fact page, but enjoy the other resources there, too.
www.carbusters.org
The Victoria Transport Policy Institute web site features information and reports on transportation costs and policies. Based in Victoria, BC it is a full-on research and encyclopaedic resource – check it out for assignments and any background information you might need.
www.vtpi.org
Clean Air Champions involves Olympic and national team athletes lending their voices and images to inspire Canadians, particularly youth, to get active for clean air and physical fitness. Clean Air Champions has been developed in close partnership with several leading organizations dedicated to clean air, public health, and the protection of the environment including the Canadian Urban Transit Association, Toronto Environmental Alliance, The Clean Air Partnership, Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport, and the Foundation for Active and Healthy Kids.
www.cleanairchampions.ca
DriveWiser from Halifax for eco-driving tips, eco-maintenance tips and eco-rules of the road to reduce your greenhouse impact when you need to travel by car.
www.drivewiser.ca
Wondering what impact your current lifestyle is having on climate change? Calculate it on the Canadian ecoACTION site.
www.ecoaction.gc.ca
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The International Youth Summit on Sustainable Urban Transportation If you are interested in sustainable cities and would like to get involved in a sustainable transportation project or initiative but don’t know where to start, this may be the conference for you. While the road to urban sustainability may be challenging, it is also exciting and worthwhile. Cities in Canada and around the world are taking sustainability seriously and, as leaders of tomorrow, youth have an important role to play in creating positive change. From leading by example to launching new projects and initiatives it is clear that sustainable transportation matters!
www.transitaction.ca
Our City Podcast is a podcast for kids and by kids. Students from around the globe are invited to submit a recording all about the city they live in (with the help of their teachers or parents). Learn how to participate!
www.learninginhand.com
Rethinking Cities, based in the U.K., offers innovation in the area of active and sustainable transportation and how we define urban space.
www.rethinkingcities.net
The Centre for Sustainable Transportation’s Kids on the Move project.
cst.uwinnipeg.ca
The International Charter for Walking – download a copy and have your school sign it.
www.walk21.com