[Carfreeliving] TLC t-shirt ideas

[Brinkman, Cheryl]

 I'd wear it - Joel will you sharpie it on a t-shirt for me?


But, for TLC it should be less threatening and more smiley.

Car free: 	more money 
		more joy
		more time


Will people in the suburbs get it?  No, to them car free = trapped.  But for
our fellow City dwellers it's an idea that can continue to catch on.
Hopefully we will see our rate of car free households rise as people realize
that in the City car free = happy and free.

Not everyone will think they can do it, but if even 15-20% more households
get rid of their cars we will have a powerful block of people, added to the
current 28%. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Joel Pomerantz [mailto:doajig at earthlink.net] 
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 1:06 PM
To: Joshua Switzky; Brinkman, Cheryl; Dave Snyder
Cc: Carfreeliving at livablecity.org
Subject: RE: [Carfreeliving] TLC t-shirt ideas



some T-shirt thoughts & ideas:

I agree with Josh that happy is better than sad, but "car-free" is 
not necessarily something that conjures happy to most people--more 
likely scorn--and if it's sad but gut-wrenching, it might be worth it 
to "disturb the peace"--the same old dilemma as ever in activism.


ideas:

a) "We've got to kick this addiction. It won't work on a finite 
planet" --David Brower

b) "We are driving through the earth's resources at a rate comparable 
to driving a car 128 MPH, and accelerating." --David Brower

(thanks to Hitesh for lending me McPhee's book on Brower, source of 
the above and other inspirations)

c) The  words "car-free and thriving" with a fine print list of the 
dozens of car-free cities and other places (in the U.S., mostly 
campuses, but there are dozens of car-free downtowns in Europe).

d) Cars are inappropriate.
Get out of your car.

e) (This is a gruesome one, and I'm not sure who'd be willing to wear 
it, but I drew it up anyway, at
http://www.bok.net/jig/transferpoint/anti-car-car.jpg )

We love our kids:
We provide them with all conceivable conveniences...
a lifestyle which just happens to take up all the worlds resources...
and destroy global ecosystems.
And we protect their fragile young minds:
We don't tell them about all the lives reduced to ruin to provide us 
with those comforts...
And we reassure them "someone" will solve all the problems they're
inheriting.

(I'd like to paint it on a car some day.)

Joel