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Speed Limits Are So 20th Century!
AAA of California Blocks Bill to Stop the Increase of Speed Limits
We're Talking Residential Streets Here
Everyone likes to get where they're going safely, quickly, and with as little hassle as possible. In general, speed limits are set to protect the safety of people and their property while expediting traffic
flows in accordance with reasonable driving patterns. And -- again in general -- the setting of speed limits near the speed of a majority of reasonable drivers (on a given stretch of road under normal conditions) would seem to be
sufficient for those goals.
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Better World Club Offers Bicycle Roadside Assistance Coverage to RentaBikeNow Customers in 200 Cities
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Read the RentaBikeNow Featured Partner Article from the last edition of Kicking Asphalt
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 Better World Club Members Receive 20% Off Purchases at ReBinder
ReBinder offers a full suite of recycled office and school supplies. Their binders, folders, journals, and CD/DVD cases are the most responsible you'll find. Better World Club members can take advantage
of a 20% discount on ReBinder purchases by logging in to the
member section of our website.
And get this! ReBinder is also offering a special promotion for Kicking Asphalt readers. Three very select readers will be chosen (at random) to receive a free Green Office Supply Sample Kit or a free Green School Supply Kit. Click
here to see a list of ReBinder's products and be entered to win.
- Most Recent 'Kicking Asphalt: Member Payola Edition'
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Access Hotel and Rental Car Discounts at BWC Member Site
Members Get Great Discounts Through Access Hotels (a Discount Program and a Confusing Double Entendre)
Need a place to stay on your family vacation? Renting a car for that wedding on the other coast? Flying last minute to Vegas in desperate hopes that you can re-pad your savings before your wife finds out what
you spent it on? Better World Club members can access a wide range of lodging discounts through, well, Access.
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Better World Insurance Now Quoting In Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, and South Carolina
Coverage Available in 39 States and the District of Columbia
(Note to members in Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Wisconsin: We're Still Waiting on Our Valentine's Day Chocolate)
It's true. We just made a similar announcement back in
the December edition of Kicking Asphalt Insurance, but our associates at Gales Creek have been working around the clock since the beginning of the new year expanding our coverage offerings. (Plus, our members in Michigan,
Minnesota, North Carolina, and South Carolina really came through on the Christmas gifts.) In any case, Better World Insurance is now accepting quote requests in 39 states* and the District of Columbia. A complete list of states is
available
here. Click
here for a quote.
For those of you who didn't bother to click through to the December story, we'll take it once more from the top. (Ahem!) Better World is an independent insurance agent that works for you. In addition to discounts for air bags, anti-lock
brakes, and other safety devices, we also discount our rates for members of the Better World Club in many states (
join now!). And we are the only insurance company providing a FREE carbon offset to cover the first 2,000 miles of greenhouse gas emissions generated by your automobile.
*You've all already caught it, so we might as well come clean. In December we announced expanding our insurance to a total of 37 states. Now we've expanded to four more states and are announcing a total of 39. Alaska went rogue and
somehow sneaked its way onto our list. That still leaves us one off. Maybe it was that tricky DC... Anyway. We checked the list twice this time, but hope you'll let us know if we're off. Check the list
here.
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BWC Members Without our Insurance Can Be "Cool" And Offset Their Own Emissions...
Better World Club makes it easy to offset your greenhouse gas emissions from flying or driving for the year (for auto insurance customers, the remainder of your auto emissions). Just follow the simple
instructions below:
1.) Precisely
determine the carbon footprint of your air travel.
2.)
Easily and precisely offset the greenhouse gas emissions of your automobile (or to offset the emissions beyond the first 2,000 miles of driving if you are a Better World Club insurance client).
Read Last Issue's Top Story:
- Better World Insurance Expands to Cover 18 New States!
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Better World Club is proud to support the efforts of the Southwest Conservation Corps. SSC employs and trains a diverse group of young women and men to complete conservation projects for the public benefit. With regional offices in Durango
and Salida, CO, Acoma, NM, and Tucson, AZ, SCC has been completing conservation work throughout the Four Corners region since 1998. Most of SCC's Colorado and New Mexico based programs operate from March to October while the Arizona office
runs programs year round. SCC operates a continuum of programs from community based initiatives for younger teens to residential camping crews for high school and college aged individuals to leadership programs for college graduates. Join
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Obama Administration Moves to Tighten Smog Standards...and Other Weird Tales of Washington
Next Thing You Know the Securities and Exchange Commission is Going to be Regulating Wall Street!
After nearly a decade of inaction on air pollution, the Environmental Protection Agency under the Obama administration recently proposed stricter standards for smog-causing pollutants. Under the
new proposals, the primary standard for smog would be tightened to between 0.060 and 0.070 parts per million, the strictest standard in E.P.A. history. The current standard (set by the Bush administration in 2008) is 0.075 parts per
million, a figure that has been challenged by both environmental activists and public health advocates.
Smog, or ground-level ozone, forms when emissions from industrial facilities, power plants, landfills and motor vehicles react in the sun. Currently, only 15 of 675 cities that monitor smog levels would be in compliance with a 0.060 ppm
standard. E.P.A. analysts expect that the stricter standard could prevent thousands of premature deaths a year from lung cancer and heart disease, as well as thousands of cases of bronchitis and asthma (a health care savings of up to $100
billion).
What?!? E.P.A. using it's regulatory power under the Clean Air Act to protect public health? "E.P.A. is stepping up to protect Americans from one of the most persistent and widespread pollutants we face," said bizzaro E.P.A. Administrator
Lisa P. Jackson, "Smog in the air we breathe poses a very serious health threat, especially to children and individuals suffering from asthma and lung disease. It dirties our air, clouds our cities and drives up our health care costs
across the country." We guess so. Maybe if you believe in science...
Even stranger: new proposals on smog regulation came on the heels of a December E.P.A. finding that greenhouse gases threaten public health.
What's next? The S.E.C. reigning in Wall Street? It won't be long until the F.D.A. is telling us what to eat!
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Eat Local!
And we're not talking about Chinese takeout from the place on the corner. Unless, that is, they only source their ingredients from nearby sustainable producers.
Local Harvest will help you find farmers' markets, family farms, co-op groceries, and restaurants where you can buy sustainable foods in your area (or any area in the United States where you might be traveling). You can also exchange
information with other visitors at Local Harvest's discussion forums and track sustainable food events across the country. Or, survey different community supported agriculture (CSA) programs to find the one that's best for you. We promise
you won't be hungry again an hour later.
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