Image credit Denis Marciniak at BlogTO Last year TreeHugger showed the top ten finalists in OCAD’s bike rack competition ; Now the winners have been installed on Toronto’s trendy Queen Street West. Fourth Year Students Evi Hui and Olivier Mayrand designed these speech bubbles and question marks…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Bike Rack Design Competition Winners Installed In Toronto
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When it comes to thwarting bike thieves , even the best bike-locks can’t guarantee your cycle won’t get jacked. But here’s a simple idea — instead of chaining up your ride to an object at ground level, imagine if you had a lock that could hoist it high overhead, safely out of reach from would-be robbers. Well, that’s exactly what gave one group of German designers the bright idea to create a bike lock that can climb a light pole…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Clever Bike Lock Can Climb a Light Pole (Video)
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Image credit: hellobo , used under Creative Commons license. We’ve seen before how few people will confront a bike thief , and we’ve also heard the advice of a former bike thief on how to keep your ride safe . (Let’s not forget Hal, the dreadlocked mechanic, and his grading of New Yorkers bike locking abilities either.) Now James Walsh over at The Guardian’… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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What Should You Do If You See a Bike Thief?
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Posters advertising the Critical Mass events in Prague. Images via Auto*Mat . Heavy traffic, aggressive drivers, few bike lanes, and fear of theft made the Czech capital a place where cycling was “only for the brave,” as an article for Radio Prague put it a few years ago. Since then, new bike lanes have been built, bike maps created, and the city has become safer for cyclists — a development being c… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo via Philadelphia Zoo Take a trip through the week’s biggest animal news stories — from warrior worms to the birth of a rare baby aye-aye and the sad news on a incredibly rare Asian unicorn. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Week in Animal Photos: Warrior Worms, Asian Unicorns, and More (Slideshow)
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Images: Abragad, via Flickr When the New York Police blamed cyclists for causing 75% of accidents — without offering supporting data, the organization Right of Way struck back with a report showing only 25% of bikers at fault , and that only on the assumption that the drivers responsible for bicycle fatalities testified fairly, in the absence of the victim’s point of view. In a Toronto study, a convalescing bicyclist demonstrated that
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Report Claims Bicyclists Responsible for Most Biking Fatalities in Berlin
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Photo via Gizmag Bike-powered washing machines aren’t a new idea; however, at least one big appliance company is backing up the idea. Haier, an large electronics company out of China, showed off a human-powered washing machine concept at IFA 2010. It’s fairly simple — an exercise bike collects energy as the person pedals, and the charging battery then powers the washing machine. Supposedly 20 minutes of work is enough to wash one load of clothes on cold cycle. The idea of using human power to get off grid even a little bit is temptin… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Pedal-Powered Washing Machine Gets Big Company Backing
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Telegraph Angelo Vassallo was Mayor of the pretty little Italian town of Pollica, which Eric Reguly of the Globe and Mail calls “a cultural and environmental treasure.” He said no to illegal construction that Reguly says ” spreads like a cancer over so many seaside Italian towns”. He said no to sm… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Being An Environmentalist and Preservationist Can Get You Killed
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Image credit: Sean O’Dell From bike races in business attire at the Brompton World Championships to a DIY electric assist kit for the classic folding bike , the Brompton seems to be a magnet for the unusual. But I’m really not sure what to make of this pimped-out 24-carat-gold-plated Brompton that’s just gone on sale on eBay. I do know it will take a brave soul to ride that thing in public…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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24-Carat Gold-Plated Folding Bike. Any Takers?
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April recently wrote In Defense of Sidewalk Bike Riding , suggesting that it’s OK in certain circumstances: “I believe there are in everyday cycling occasions on which a cyclist may need to sidewalk ride.” Meanwhile economist Felix Salmon weighs in at Reuters: … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Is Riding a Bike On The Sidewalk OK?
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