Expeditions are all about taking a journey with a purpose. Our logo reflects the many different journeys people take during their lives, highlighting places, people, and destinations every week. For us, this is a fun little design excercise to think about what our weekly journey might entail. Below is our logo archives.
This week’s logo features the Geologic Map of the Moon created by scientists at the USGS; authored by Fortezzo, Spudis & Harrel (USGS), 2020.
This week’s Expedition Logo is brought to us by Mars: the Tharsis volcanoes on Mars, Arsia Mons, Pavonis Mons, and Ascraeus Mons, including Olympus Mons. High resolution topographic map of Mars based on the Mars Global Surveyor laser altimeter research led by Maria Zuber and David Smith.
This week’s logo is brought to us by Jupiter, and the Giant Red Spot, a persistent high-pressure region in the atmosphere of Jupiter. This image was taken on on 27 June 2019 by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3.
This week’s logo features a Martian impact crater taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Staying with Mars this week, we feature Jezero Crater, the landing site of NASA JPL rover Perseverance who successfully landed last week. The image combines information from two instruments on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter: the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) and the Context Camera (CTX) created by NASA/JPL/JHU-APL/MSSS/Brown University. Science rules.
Feeling patriotic this week, as normalcy reigns at the Federal level. Not everything is how I would like it, but it isn’t a raging dumpster fire. This week’s logo is superimposed on the L'Enfant-McMillan Plan of Washington, DC.
The mighty Mississippi runs the course of America, a journey of a lifetime and many novels. This week’s logo is the famous Meander Maps of the Mississippi River (1944) by Harold Fisk, charting the ever shifting sands of the Mississippi River banks. Check out all the maps here.
Redlining is on my mind: the practice by the federal government of systematically loans, services, and goods which explicitly targeted Black and African Americans. This shameful history continue to this day, affecting our cities and neighborhoods. This redline map from 1936 is from Cleveland, Ohio created for the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) a government-sponsored corporation. The purpose was to refinance mortgages in default to prevent foreclosures. In 1935 Federal Home Loan Bank Board asked HOLC to look at 239 cities and create "residential security maps" to indicate the level of security for real-estate investments. They systematically identified areas where poor, Black, and African Americans lived then denied people loans who lived there, creating a spiral of disinvestment, which then was taken advantage of during the 1950/60/70 “urban renewal” and “slum clearance” leading to urban freeways demolishing whole neighborhoods.
Atlanta. What else can be said about a tragedy which happens repeatedly, and with a similar arc of impact. I'm tired of this arc, and not having an honest conversation about firearms, racism, patriarchy, and the inability of broken people to find help or solace.
I spent the weekend playing around Roosevelt Island, the tiny island in the East River between Manhattan and Queens. The urban plan was by Philip Johnson and John Burgee. Setting aside Johnson’s support of the Nazis (a big set aside) the island urbanism is special. If anyone needed to go on a journey with a purpose, it was Johnson.
This week is all about figuring out how to get from her to there, using the tools we have. Welcome to orienteering week.
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In this episode we speak with Sam Starr, a cargo bike expert about what our cities might look like if we shift some (or a substantial amount) of our in-city freight traffic from giant potential trucks to cargo bikes. Listen to Episode 006 with Sandra Rothbard for more freight pod.
Sam Starr is a distinguished Sustainable Freight and Cycle Logistics consultant, co-founder of the North American Cargo Bike Conference by Our Greenway, and a trailblazer in the decarbonizing of goods movement. With over 15 years of expertise in logistics and supply chain, including roles at FedEx Services, Flash Global, US Pack Logistics, and others, Sam has recently played a pivotal role in transforming sustainable logistics, driving academic studies and cycle logistics pilots across Canada. A sought-after speaker at conferences like those hosted by the Association for Supply Chain Management, International Cargo Bike Festival, and the United Nations Economic Commission, Sam holds degrees in Electrical and Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and is a graduate of the Master of Engineering Leadership program in Urban Systems at the University of British Columbia. Passionate about sustainable cities and cutting-edge mobility, Sam stands out as a visionary leader shaping the future of environmentally responsible logistics systems.
“The future is very bright for cargo bikes, but we need to start thinking about it as that ecosystem. And this is not just for businesses, it’s for everybody.”
In this episode we speak with freight expert Sandra Rothbard, who is an urban planner specializing in freight transportation. After working for public agencies in NYC on city logistics, disaster preparedness and solid waste management, she now supports public, private and non-profit organizations around the world as an independent consultant. She focuses on building sustainable, resilient and safe streets, healthy communities and efficient and economic supply chains.
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“What I and my colleagues, would like to see, is a definition between what is a regular, family use cargo bike that might as well just be a regular e-bike. So that’d be one category and then another category that’s maybe more on the mid size scale that allows for heavier duty goods requires maybe a bit of training to use them but this is still carrying a I’ll call it a mid weight. And then a higher, heavier duty category that’s looking at 800 pounds, 700, 800 pounds of payload and more, and that these get regulated at these different levels.”
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