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	<title>Dan Koeppel&#039;s Blog &#187; Big Parade</title>
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	<description>Bananas, Los Angeles, and Transit Geekery</description>
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		<title>Fresh Air Listeners, Welcome</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 20:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Dan Koeppel&#8217;s blog. For my latest writing about bananas, please check out my recent story in The Scientist. If you&#8217;re looking for a copy of my book, and Amazon is sold out, I sell signed copies direct at retail cost (plus shipping.) Chinese, Thai, and Korean editions also available. Japan is coming soon. I&#8217;m on Twitter here; Facebook here.]]></description>
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		<title>Big Parade 2011 info is online</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 23:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; The event is Saturday and Sunday May 21 and 22, 2011, with a prologue on Friday, May 20. To learn what the Big Parade is, how to join it, why you can do it, and where we&#8217;ll go, visit the official Big Parade website. To keep updated, join practice walks, and ask questions, visit the Big Parade Facebook page.]]></description>
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		<title>Just for Kids: The World&#8217;s Most Important Bananas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 01:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a special post, excerpted and modified from my book, designed for kids, visiting from The Mini Page, a syndicated feature published in over 500 newspapers every week. There is no place on earth where bananas are more important than Uganda. Uganda grows eleven million tons of the fruit each year. That counts out to more than 500 pounds per person annually &#8212; twenty times more than we Americans peel and eat. In remote villages, where there are few other crops, banana consumption stretches toward the unbelievable: as much as 970 pounds each year for each person. That’s ten bananas per day! In some communities, a banana tree can be found in front of every household. It might have grown there for generations, feeding both infants and grandparents: a century of nutrition in just a few square feet. The Ugandan fruit, known as the “East African Highland Banana,” is also eaten in the circle of nations surrounding Lake Victoria &#8211; the world’s second largest lake, in the mountains on the eastern side of the continent. But bananas are more than just something to dine on. In these nations &#8211; Rwanda, Tanzania, Burundi, and Kenya, along with Uganda &#8211; bananas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Read About Me &#8211; and Stairways &#8211; in Sunset Magazine</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 22:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A very nice feature about me, The Big Parade, and pedestrian life in Los Angeles is in the January, 2011 issue of Sunset (the story isn&#8217;t online yet &#8211; you can get it the old fashioned way: hoof it down to the newsstand.)  I&#8217;m a little embarrassed that I was described as a &#8220;poster boy&#8221; for pedestrian activism in LA; there are lots of people who are far more involved and dedicated than me who&#8217;d better fit that description. But thanks, Sunset! Sunset readers: welcome. Most info about walks can be found in the menus to the right. News about walking, transit, and bananas &#8211; yes, you can read about and buy my awesome, best-selling book &#8211; is below.]]></description>
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		<title>Beverly Hills Cops: Bikes are EVIL!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 07:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Discussing the murder of a Hollywood publicist in the Los Angeles Times, a spokesman for the BHPD spills the beans on the ultimate tool for hardened criminals: &#8220;Lee declined to comment on the specifics of the case, but said, &#8220;I can tell you from personal experience that using a bicycle as a mode of transportation is extremely prevalent with criminals. You can&#8217;t copy a license plate; they get in and out of traffic; hide into the shadows of the night, through alleyways; and can dump the bike and can jump into a bus. It occurs all the time.&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Metro: Trails Accessible by Mass Transit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2010 18:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Very cool &#8211; the L.A. Metro has posted &#8211; in what looks to be a series &#8211; an entry on trails-by-bus. The Source » Trailhead Hunter: Temescal Canyon. (In Will Rogers State Park/Sunset Bl/Pacific Palisades.) I was part of the ultimate all-mass-transit hiking excursion a few years ago: three days over the San Gabriels.]]></description>
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		<title>Post-Thanksgiving Pilgramage: Friday, November 25</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 23:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We meet at Union Station, downtown LA, at 10AM, for a ten mile walk that combines trail and street, with a few stairways (the Cornfields/Elysian Park/Frogtown route, for those who&#8217;ve been along before.) Bring sturdy shoes &#8211; there&#8217;s some trail that might be muddy &#8211; along with lunch, something to drink, and about five hours. Please RSVP at the Facebook page, or email an RSVP here.]]></description>
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		<title>Big Paraders joining the Great LA Walk meet point&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ll gather at Angel&#8217;s Flight at 9:30 AM and walk over to Pershing Square (one block) for the 10AM start. Bus info: the Metro 20 bus runs the length of the GLAW route, with service every 20 minutes into the evening.]]></description>
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		<title>Join the Great Los Angeles Walk, Sat. Nov 20</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 23:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the walking event that inspired the Big Parade. Since 2006, the Great LA Walk has traversed a single east-west thoroughfare from somewhere near downtown to the Pacific. This year, it returns to Wilshire Blvd., departing at 10AM from Pershing Square. A Big Parade group will be assembling there, and walking the whole thing ensemble (Tish &#8211; you spoke French!)  But whether you&#8217;ll join us, or simply latch on, this is the single-day walking event of the year. More info at the GLAW Blog or Facebook page. And when you&#8217;re done, and want more, check out our November/December walks, here.]]></description>
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		<title>Mind-Bending Stairway Panoramas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2010 21:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carel Strucyken&#8217;s panoramic images span Los Angeles and beyond; many are of stairways, including this one, shot at Echo Park&#8217;s Baxter Street stairs, whose 231 steps make it the city&#8217;s longest. Though there are tons of amazing images of stairways, Struycken&#8217;s technique captures the impressive breadth of the structures with an authenticity rarely seen. (Click on the image for an enlarged version that you can pan and zoom.) For more stairways and landmarks, go here. Carel&#8217;s main site is here. (The Baxter Street stairs are on all of my routes in Echo Park; see Routes and Maps page for details. Here&#8217;s the exact location of the stairway on Google Maps.) P.S., Carel is awesome for an entirely non-stair related reason….]]></description>
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