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Babes in bikeland: Advice for cycling with kids

Babes in bikeland: Advice for cycli... Posted by admin in Article, Biking, Indoor Environment, Living Green on 07 22nd, 2012 | No Comments

Photo by Patrick Barber. (All photos in this post used with permission.) My daughter will turn 3 this year, and we just enrolled her in preschool. With all our childcare at home to date, we’ve been lucky to avoid lots of extra running...

Blood on the bike path: What a tragic accident teaches us about safely sharing the trails

Blood on the bike path: What a trag... Posted by admin in Article, Biking, Indoor Environment on 07 13th, 2012 | No Comments

A few weeks ago, just outside of Washington, D.C., a woman was hit and killed by a man on a bicycle while walking on a paved multi-use trail, aka a “bike path.” It was a tragic accident. My heart goes out to any and all that knew...

Training wheels for your Hummer? GM... Posted by admin in Biking, Environmental Issues, Living Green on 06 28th, 2012 | No Comments

Don’t look now, but people in Japan are driving Hummers. By driving we mean pedaling. And by Hummers? We mean bicycles. It’s true. An outfit called Global Innovation Company is distributing a line of bicycles bearing the names...

Rio cycle: Canadian bikes to Earth Summit (with a little help from trains and buses)

Rio cycle: Canadian bikes to Earth ... Posted by admin in Article, Biking, Climate & Energy on 06 18th, 2012 | No Comments

Naomi Devine. (Photo by Zoma Fotografia .) Thousands of people from around the world have converged on Rio de Janeiro this week for the Earth Summit , a mammoth conference aimed at creating a green economy for the globe. But I can...

U.N. tries to inspire world bike revolution, doesn’t

U.N. tries to inspire world bike re... Posted by admin in Article, Biking, Environmental Issues, News on 06 11th, 2012 | No Comments

Secretary General Ban Ki-moon stood at a podium outside the U.N. on Friday wearing a dashing bike helmet — only to break my heart. A promise had been made to me that I would get to ride bikes with the secretary general. To be fair,...

Teaser: Ridin’ bikes with U.N. su... Posted by admin in Article, Biking, Climate & Energy, Indoor Environment, News on 06 8th, 2012 | No Comments

This afternoon, the United Nations had an event to promote urban bicycling in advance of Rio+20. Full story is coming on Monday, but, for now, please relive the excitement — nay! the grandeur! — of a six block bike ride...

NYC learns to heart bicycles... Posted by admin in Biking, Climate & Energy, Environmental Issues, Indoor Environment, Infrastructure on 06 2nd, 2012 | No Comments

A version of this article originally appeared on Transportation Nation . Photo by Ed Yourdon. Let’s go back in time to December 2010. The city’s tabloid editorial pages are just beginning to sink their teeth into the transportation...