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About

Traffic Kills is an eco community founded to inspire individuals to act in first person with the aim of improving their environment by promoting initiatives for a real change and a sustainable everyday life. What do your environment and daily life need to improve?
Think Act Change


How does TK operate?
Traffic Kills uses the Meetup formula for its local networking, allowing members to share and improve ideas with others, transforming them into concrete initiatives and events.

Think
To improve what surrounds you and your way of living, the TK community is receptive towards environmental and social issues, creating and developing concepts to be implemented on a global scale.

Act
Act in first person by promoting TK activities and participating to Meetup events. TK answers to users' requests and suggestions, providing solutions aimed at getting the public's and the medias' attention.

Change
TK points out sensible issues and tries to suggest solutions for planning viral actions based on civic care, which can be performed across the globe to gain attention and inspire real change.

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What it proposes

Broadly speaking, "Traffic Kills" deals with all factors which are degrading our environment. It aims at improving people's habits through sustainable changes, creating a critical mass capable of directing human progress towards sustainable development.

Traffic Kills wants to address local and global political agendas to encourage more sustainable politics.


Connect interact Share communicate Civic Care natural resources Think social environment Information aggregation awareness Share Meet Act Save water Community Funny Video Recycling Future Sustainable mobility Inspire Glocal Actions Urban Revolution Respect nature Change sustainability Improve your eco individuality Critical Mass Traffic Kills Recycle Don't waste Be responsible Being conscious No plastic bag Renewable Energy Green care Less packaging Teleworking Be TK

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Press release

Have you seen any articles related to Traffic Kills?
Please send us all material (jpg, pdf, txt or doc format) and it will be published in this section connect@traffickills.com.


La Repubblica - Friday 9 May 2008 - Italy
“The disco-shuttle is back, and the Free Bus works for three”
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La Stampa T7 - Friday 28 March 2008 - Italy
“If you danced but also drank, take the “Traffic Kills Free Bus”
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La Repubblica - Thursday 27 March 2008 - Italy
“Leave your car, traffic kills”
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Metro Italy - Friday 19 October 2007 - Italy
“Traffic Kills, urban raids”
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Contacts

The Traffic Kills Team connect@traffickills.com

International Representative Coordinators

Turin / ITALY Davide Ghirardotti freebustorino@traffickills.com Copenhagen / DENMARK Anastasia Norrild anastasia_norrild@hotmail.com
Rome / ITALY Carol Lapadula karol.lapadula@gmail.com London / UK Rob Cragg supadaaviid@hotmail.co.uk
Milan / ITALY Carla Tiraboschi carla.tiraboschi@hotmail.it Bruxelles / BELGIUM Juliet Laki g.laki@email.it
Berlin / GERMANY Giovanna Tonelli giovannatonelli@gmail.com New York / USA Lara Musso lara.musso@gmail.com
Berlin / GERMANY Chanana McKelton nana_massie@hotmail.com Tokyo / Japan Alessandro Mistretta nukleall@hotmail.com
San Francisco / USA Giorgia Franco nepaljoy@hotmail.com

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25 May 2008

Free Bus by TK Turin Meetup

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Filed under : ACTIONS

A free shuttle service for clubbers during weekend nights, for having fun together without car pollution or risking on the road during your night out.


23 May 2008

Phone Traffic

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Filed under : NEWS

Once, while I was riding on a crowded bus, the man sitting next to me threw his cell phone out the window. When his phone rang, instead of dutifully answering it, he casually tossed it away. I was stunned. He looked at me, shrugged and looked away. I had no idea if it was his, [...]


23 May 2008

Naple, waste trains re-start abroad

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Filed under : NEWS

Still fires of burning waste in the Neapolitan area, especially in the suburbs, where the situation remains dramatic. The hygiene alarm remains high and the European Union presses Italy to act quickly. Shipments of waste depart again for Germany; the goal is to clear at least a thousand tons of garbage per day.
Despite a [...]


21 May 2008

Sustainable Energy Europe Campaign

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Sustainable Energy Europe Campaign
A European Campaign to raise awareness and change the landscape of energy
Sustainable Energy Europe is a European Commission initiative in the framework of the Intelligent Energy - Europe Programme, which will contribute to achieve the European Union’s energy policy targets within the fields of renewable energy sources, energy efficiency, clean transport and [...]


19 May 2008

BFF NEW EDITION: starting from NY

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A new edition of Bicycle Film Festival is coming up in New York, and then it will be in Toronto • Minneapolis • LA • SF • Chicago • Boston • Tokyo • Austin • London • Vienna • Zurich • Paris • Sydney • Melbourne • Milano • Portland.
The Bicycle Film Festival is a [...]


16 May 2008

THE SECOND FREE BUS EXPERIENCE: A SUCCESS

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TRAFFIC KILLS TORINO MEETUP, report
The second step of Free Bus at Turin on the last 10 may was a success. Italian, American and Spanish people travelled all night long for free and in security. 1.000 persons took this new kind of free public transportation.
Confluence and participation have made us excited and we believe that the [...]


15 May 2008

A mountain of electronic trash could submerge us

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Rich countries are swamping the Third World countries with mountains of electronic trash. Instead of engaging in recycling and disposal, the industrial nations are dumping onto the poor countries the responsibility of disposal. Computer, cellular phones and televisions go into open air landfills or they are burned, releasing toxic elements into the environment.
The most damaged [...]


14 May 2008

Plastic bags: circulation ban all over the world

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Plastic bags are the principle cause of increased environmental damage in all countries.
The campaign to ban their use is gaining more and more momentum everywhere. We can see how the problem is handled from one place to other in the world.
South Africa, in May 2003, bannedithe usage of thin plastic bags. In Eritrea, Ruanda and [...]


13 May 2008

Mark Bittman: What’s wrong with what we eat

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From: http://www.ted.com
About this talk
In this fiery and funny talk, New York Times food writer Mark Bittman weighs in on what’s wrong with the way we eat now (too much meat, too few plants; too much fast food, too little home cooking), and why it’s putting the entire planet at risk.


2 May 2008

FREE BUS ON 10 MAY

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Filed under : ACTIONS, NEWS

FREE BUS TURIN, ON THE 10 of MAY 2008
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WHEN A PUBLIC SERVICE DOESN’T EXIST PEOPLE MAY DECIDE TO ORGANIZE IT.
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