Holiday Inn Johnstown, PA

http://www.johnstown-dwtn.holiday-inn.com/

When recently staying at the Holiday Inn in downtown Johnstown, PA i was trying to find a place to recycle my papers plastic bottles, etc. When I inquired at the front desk they indicated they did not recycle.

Probably not a place for me to stay again and others may choose to avoid as well for a Greener hotel.

Twin Cities Announces Bike & Walk Projects

http://www.mepartnership.org/mep_newsroom.asp?new_id=2838


Bike Walk Twin Cities Announces Projects
in Falcon Heights, Minneapolis, Richfield, Roseville and Saint Paul

Drivers Move Over: Cyclists and Pedestrians to Have Priority on New Bike Walk Streets

Drivers, cyclists and pedestrians prepare for a new way to share your turf. Twin Cities cyclists and pedestrians will soon have priority on new bike walk streets to be built in the metropolitan area.

Contacts: Katie Eukel, Transit for Livable Communities -651.767.0298, Ext. 115
Dawn Erlandson - 612.871.2786 or Cathy Kennedy - 612.309.395

So where is your community???

Google Transit

I just learned of a Google Transit that allows you to plan city trips step by step. You tell it where you are and where you want to go. It then steps you through where the nearest bus stops, etc to get to your destination.

The only problem is that Duluth is the only Minnesota city to be included. Maps have not been uploaded for the Twin Cities.

You can find it if you just Google Transit.

Wells Fargo 79th Xerxes -Bloomington, Mn

I was going by the Wells Fargo bank about a week ago and their automatic sprinklers were going off watering their nice green grass. Perhaps they should think of a landscape change to prarie grass or something that would not take automatic watering.

Caribou Coffee Not Walking the Talk

I was at Caribou Coffee on 79th & Penn in Bloomington and noticed a couple things that do not seem consistent with their written work, at least in my opinion.

1) One brochure states: " Doing the Right Thing-Sustainability from seed to cup"

2) Another stated:"Making Your Day and Your World Better".

Yet when I asked if they recycled my newspaper that I had brough in all seemed perplexed. They did not seem to have a paper recycling program IMHO>

Also I normally state that it is "For Here" to eat/drink in. Yet never have I been offered a ceramic cup as Starbuck would automatically do. I found I had to ask for what I would consider and automatic.

I had had this experience more than once and at more than one Caribou in the Twin Cities.

So I don't believe they are living up to what they advertise in their literature.