Does your child ever walk or bike to school? Tens of thousands of students, and many adult counterparts, take such a journey on a daily basis. Yet the safety of these efforts – basic staples for any neighborhood like functional crosswalks, stop signs, or sidewalks, etc. – is now in jeopardy due to another inane proposal from Congress. Specifically, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is scheduled to vote on Thursday, February 2nd on a bill to eliminate ALL funds for Safe Routes to School. Here at the Earth Day Network, we believe this recent move by Congress would be exceptionally detrimental to the safety and health of our nation’s youth and thousands of communities nationwide.
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Mike Wierusz teaches one of the first courses in the country purely focused on sustainable engineering and design (see class website - SEDlabs). Quite fitting considering in his previous life he was a LEED AP mechanical engineer...
