SharingUmbrellas.org & LocalExpression.com
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We are celebrating the 75th and 50th Anniversaries of the 1939 and 1964 World’s Fairs. We are hoping to make this celebration occurring in NYC as well as a myriad of locations at the same time.
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Starting this summer and going until late 2015, the campaign will encourage individuals and small groups to work on designing and building the next generations of human-scale urban transport vehicles and neighborhood originated and operated, Transportation/Information/Com
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Current wheelchairs and bikes do not provide weather protection, places for passengers or gear, the whole array of creature comforts and other features that would permit them to be used by everyone and ultimately replace most toxic and hazardous, multi-ton, industrial-scale, urban-unfriendly vehicles.
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Unique all-purpose shelters can be made by local artists and craftspeople, to provide protection against bad weather at bus stops and elsewhere, to give neighborhoods natural gathering spots and bulletin boards, ways to encourage help availability, organize healthy exercise, enable resource-sharing, rides etc.
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Local businesses, environmental, arts and education organizations etc. will be contacted and asked to offer support to local groups working on these projects, to give them seed money, in any amounts, or in-kind contributions of materials and services, to publicize and help transport their final products to NYC.