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Green Think Tank for the Disability Community staffed table of 49th Ward Green Corps Sunday Aug. 22 from 9 am-2 pm in Chicago on west side of N. Glenwood near Greenleaf. Attendees of the Glenwood Farmers Market and Glenwood Art Festival stopped by to learn what we were doing, sampled Maat's homemade raw organic blueberry kombucha, and signed our Declaration for Transit Freedom and Justice. We stil need more signatures, but please write some comments --a few words or a line. Become part of or invest in Green Paratransit. Join the Green Think Tank or Green Paratransit Think Tank. Call us at 773-416-7366. Email: greenthinktank@comcast.net. View our comments at LinkedIn.com, too. Join our Green Think Tank groups there. We are global. IMPRUVE is national and eventually will be global. You do not have to live in Illinois to join and plan for Green Paratransit or the 4-passenger wheelchair (Soular Car)in your community. Green Think Tank for the Disability Community is a product of persons who are disabled. It includes Baby Boomers, seniors, young people. Some things we focus on are: green cars, solar power, green cooperative housing, green pest control, orgnic gardening, green dining, green products for home, body.
Through the Green Think Tank, we promote green jobs and businesses that will take persons who are disabled out of poverty!! We also give voice to the green disability community and report on green businesses that are accessible to persons who are disabled.
Don't be held hostage to vehicles and paratransit systems that don't accommodate you. Why stay home all the time? Get in the loop. Work with us on the Soular Car Project--the car of innovation, with no carbon emissions. Cruise Car is the manufacturer of choice. Douglas Larson is a product development consultant and principal, also a mechanical engineer. He is working with us. We will sell it, rent or lease it, repair and maintain it, insure it and make sure it is affordable.
Target date for rider control of public paratransit or Green Paratransit: 2016. Invest now!! We can make it happen sooner only with more resources (financial, rehab engineers, product development, acceptance nationally). Be part of this innovation at the ground level. But if you are disabled and want a green job within the various businesses that we will establish or allow you to set up, you must learn or know technology, have business skills (develop them through Hull House (ETP) Entrepreneurship Training Program - 10 weeks) or a community college business course or study online. Do it now while you can. We will also have study courses and work with Stay Environmentally Focusd', Image Consulting, and Freedom and Victory Publishing, which plans to publish green education and living manuals. Moreover, a Green Think Tank contact in Sardis MS is developing a green resource center (for teaching and sharing resources in windpower, solar power, organic gardening and canning; and making it accessible for urban and rural families to visit and live while studying. In Pembroke Township (Hodgkins Park) IL and Chicago IL, there is the Black Oaks Center for Sustainable Renewable Living. Though not a member of the Green Think Tank, we salute their work. It is run by Fred Carter (certified instructor in permaculture and former transportation executive) and Dr. Jifunza Wright Carter (holistic MD in integrative medicine and community health). Other green groups are BIG (Blacks In Green) run by Naomi Davis and 49th Ward Green Corps of which Dr. Maat is a member. We would like to see more green events and living centers that are wheelchair-accessible throughout the country. There are companies such as Chicago Ramp and American Ramp that rent and sell ramps (Chicago Ramp rents for one day, one event, a few days, etc. for those who don't need a ramp year-round). There are companies that sell or rent tarps for wheelchairs to make it over sand, gravel, dirt, grass and through garden paths. Some may be able to make their own ramps, tarps, etc., of recycled materials, or bamboo, repurposed plastic, or reclaimed wood. However, the most current focus for the Green Paratransit Think Tank...is accessible NEVs (neighborhood electric vehicles, of which the Soular Car Project focuses on the solar-powered vehicle, yet we will be looking into other electric vehicles (and assembly kits) that are cost-effectove for persons who live at, near or below poverty.
