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Today on Planet 100: Vuvuzelas Assault BP (Video)
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Image credit: ItzaFineDay /Flickr The bicycle has many attractions as a form of personal transportation. It alleviates congestion, lowers air pollution, reduces obesity, increases physical fitness, does not emit climate-disrupting carbon dioxide, and is priced within the reach of the billions of people who cannot afford a car. Bicycles increase mobility while reducing congestion and the area of land paved over. Six bicycles can typically fit into the road space used by one car. For parking, the advantage is even greater, with 20 bicycles occupying the space required to… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The Welcome Return of the Bicycle
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Lisa Anne Auerbach Libraries are going through existential crises these days as they try to figure out their role in a digital world. Meanwhile, cycling for fitness and transportation is growing in popularity. Therefore what could be more obvious than turning a library into a velodrome. At least it was obvious to Pomona College graduating student Samuel Starr, who built the velodrome as his final year thesis…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Arts Student Repurposes A Library Into A Velodrome
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Image credit: Crap Waltham Forest I talked before about the one tip for staying safe on a bike . But it seems that advice isn’t being universally heeded. In fact, a spate of women cyclists killed on the streets of London has got a lot of people asking questions. Like could technology save us if behavior can’t?… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The Strida bicycle is a TreeHugger fixture, the usual ride for TreeHugger founder Graham Hill and me, and the subject of many posts. Now James at Bicycle Design has published its remarkable history. Mark Sanders actually designed the Strida when he was an Industrial Design Engineering graduate student at the Imperial College London/ Royal College of Art 25 years ago, in 1985. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The Fascinating History of the Strida Bike
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Image credit: Lock Your Bike Lloyd reported back in 2007 that the City of Toronto was using bait bikes fitted with GPS to trap would-be bike thieves. Apparently the idea is catching on, and London is now following suit. In fact, British police are going to be deploying bait bikes across the country after a series of successful trials cut theft rates by as much as 45%. All well and good, you might think, but it seems some people are concerned this tactic amounts to entrapment. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Are "Bait Bikes" Simply Entrapment?
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Spacing A recent study in the UK, reported in the Guardian, showed that drivers give less room to cyclists when there is a bike lane than when there isn’t. Graduate student Ciaran Meyers attached a special camera to his bike and found that motorists gave him an extra 18.1 cm (7.12 inches) when there was no marked cycle lane than they did when there was a lane. Transport engineer John Parkin explains w… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Are Blue Bikelanes Better than Black?
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Photo: The Pico by Puma Bike “PUMA Bikes redefine and reinvigorate the city ride with a bit of radicalism and a whole lot of practicality. They fold, they carry, they cruise. They’re everything and more, packed tight in a sweet, colorful ride.” Well, that’s how the marketing types for Puma and Biomega see it anyhow. What we see is another entrant in the human powered, urban mobility market and that has to be a positive move. If it gets people out their oil fuel cars, then we can turn a blind eye to a little extra robust PR. And when it comes down to it, a couple of models do conveniently fold, while some can be o… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Puma Teams Up with Biomega To Make Bikes. Again
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Photo by Mike Stich in BlogTO Flickrpool The use of bikes for crowd control and intimidation at the Toronto G20 is completely fascinating. Waves of them, parades of them, bikes everywhere. I wouldn’t think they are very useful; unlike a big, intimidating police horse, the officer has to hold the bike up, occupying his or her hands; it isn’t the most efficient thing to bonk someone over the head with…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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More Bikes At Work At G20 in Toronto
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I find this picture in BlogTO by Ronnie Yip to be extraordinary; The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty , a well-known group of rabble-rousers is preparing to march, and the police are out in force. But unlike the Battle of Seattle , the police are out to meet them, not in head-to-t… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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A Picture Is Worth…Toronto Preparing For A Riot At G20
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