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Is the Shweeb Ready for Prime Time?

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Is the Shweeb Ready for Prime Time?

The Shweeb is derived from the German “Schweben”, meaning to float or suspend. A logical name for a device invented by a New Zealander living in Tokyo. Commenters had issues when we wrote about it last year, But somebody likes it; It just won a million bucks in the Google 10 100 competition. Google writes: Shweeb is a concept for short to medium distance, urban personal transport, using human-powered vehicles on a monorail. We are providing $1 million to fund research and development to test Shweeb’s technology for an urban set… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Bicycle – The Freedom Machine

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

(Photo insert: Warren McLaren /inov8) This post is part of series written by TreeHugger contributors about trading in your car for a bike for trips that are two miles or less in distance. The series is sponsored by the Clif 2-Mile Challenge . Do you remember receiving your first bicycle as a child? A seminal moment for many of us. It punctuates that time in our lives when we were enveloped by a sense of unbridled freedom. We were no longer dependent on our parents to shuttle us around the place. We weren’t constrained by bus or train timetables. We could… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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DIY Greywater Recycling in Los Angeles

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: Greywater Corps We have seen great examples of safe, legal greywater systems , and we’ve also seen the more covert greywater guerrilla approach . Now a Los Angeles company is planning on taking greywater recycling firmly into the mainstream, and they want to teach you how to do it too. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Bagbike Has Clever Carrier For Urban Cycling

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Designboom has been spoonfeeding out the short list in the Seoul Cycle Design Competition 2010 over the last few weeks. Some have been idiosyncratic and odd, but others, like this Bagbike from Francois Bernard, Sonja Breuninger and Marion Pinaffo makes a lot of sense…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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They Make No Small Plans In Jönköping, Sweden: A City Designed For Bikes

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

A lot of Torontonians are wondering where they will move after the election in October, as the candidates race to the bottom to outdo each other in slashing services, getting rid of bike lanes, building underground highways that make Boston’s Big Dig look small and cheap, and where the formerly leading candidate lost my vote with his rallying cry “Scarborough, not Copenhagen”! (Scarborough is a troubled, car-dominated suburb) That rallying cry was particularly troubling because Toronto could use a little Copenhagen, and even more Jönköping

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Report Claims Bicyclists Responsible for Most Biking Fatalities in Berlin

Posted on September 12, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

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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TreeHugger to Test Bamboo Bike During Climate Awareness Trip Climate Ride

Posted on September 8, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via Organic Bikes Trial by fire is always the best way to go, right? Well…anyway. From September 20-25, I’ll be putting one of the most interesting bamboo bikes on the market (as well as my body) to the test as one of 150 participating in climate awareness bike trip Brita Climate Ride . Over four days, I’ll be pedaling a total of 320 miles across California with the likes of Chris Jordan — the activist and photographer behind

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Ride in Comfort On The City Recumbent

Posted on September 7, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Seoul Cycle Design Competition 2010 results are out soon, and Designboom builds the tension with a release from the short list: A spectacular looking recumbent bike by Jean Davignon…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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In Defense of Sidewalk Bike Riding

Posted on September 7, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo credit Edenpictures via flickr. As a new or continuing city cyclist, you are bound to hear the admonishment: “Don’t ride on the sidewalk. It’s dangerous.” I swallowed that Kool-Aid for quite a while. After all, I want cycling to be a respected part of the transport infrastructure, I want cyclists to be generally law abiding and not continually agitate either pedestrians or car drivers (or each other!). But that word “dangerous,” bandied about as it is so … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Computer Wire Dress by Tina Sparkles Makes Statement About e-Waste

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Images via Tina Sparkles Electronic clothing is something that continually fascinates some designers. From circuit board boxers to keyboard purses to blinking bicycling sweaters , there’s just something about turning electronics into fashion. But Tina Sparkles does it w… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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