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IKEA Thanks USA Staff With 12,400 Free Bicycles

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on IKEA Thanks USA Staff With 12,400 Free Bicycles

Photo: IKEA via Business Wire IKEA is giving its 12,400 staff, in the USA, an early Holiday present. “We hope this bike will be taken in the spirit of the season while supporting a healthy lifestyle and everyday sustainable transport,” said Mike Ward, IKEA US President. Unlike the 9,000 British employees who, back in 2006, were the beneficiaries of a free folding bike , it looks like American staff have scored a chunkier mountain bike style bicycle. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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IKEA Thanks USA Staff With 12,400 Free Bicycles

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on IKEA Thanks USA Staff With 12,400 Free Bicycles

Photo: IKEA via Business Wire IKEA is giving its 12,400 staff, in the USA, an early Holiday present. “We hope this bike will be taken in the spirit of the season while supporting a healthy lifestyle and everyday sustainable transport,” said Mike Ward, IKEA US President. Unlike the 9,000 British employees who, back in 2006, were the beneficiaries of a free folding bike , it looks like American staff have scored a chunkier mountain bike style bicycle. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Ecotopia or Sprawling Nightmare? Four Scenarios for the Future of our Cities (video)

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Ecotopia or Sprawling Nightmare? Four Scenarios for the Future of our Cities (video)

Image credit: Forum for the Future As New York’s efforts to create a livable city show , we are already seeing far-reaching changes to how our cities are organized—and not before time. But there is still an awful lot more to do. Yesterday I wrote about a new report detailing how megacities must change in the face of a population explosion . My initial post focused primarily on the six principles outlined for creating more wor… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Schwinn’s Vestige. Flax Frame Bike Glows At Night

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Schwinn’s Vestige. Flax Frame Bike Glows At Night

Photos: Schwinn Thought we covered this a month or two ago, but alas not. Schwinn won the Eurobike Gold Award , in the Cruiser/Designbike category, with their Vestige bike, touted as the first ever Flax Fiber Bicycle. Maybe they need to add Mass Produced to that claim, because a full year ago Jacob reported on Johan Museeuw ‘s handmade flax road bikes. That anomaly aside, Schwinn’s flax bike does have an intrig… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Brooks Organic Leather Bicycle Saddles Go the Distance

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Brooks Organic Leather Bicycle Saddles Go the Distance

All photos supplied by Brooks The 1880’s were, arguably, the bicycle’s golden era. From that time we derived the so-called ‘Safety Bicycle’, where, unlike the ‘Penny Farthing,’ riders could reach the ground with their feet. The same period also saw the introduction of the chain drive, pneumatic bike tyres, and the first Brooks leather bicycle saddle (or seat.) With almost 150 years of leather craftsmanship, Brooks, continue to innovate, recently launching a line of vegetable tanned, organic leather bicycle saddles. Inspired not so much by a need to be ‘green,’ but by cyclist’s requests for even higher … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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"Biggest Loser" Winner Joins TreeHugger For Climate Ride Bike Trip

Posted on September 20, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photos via NBC When you loose 215 pounds, you don’t want those pounds creeping back. A good way to maintain: bike 320 miles in five days. On season 9 of NBC’s “The Biggest Loser,” Koli Palu sweated and dieted off a total of 215 pounds finishing at 188 (loosing 53.35 percent of his body weight!) and winning the $100,000 prize. Arguably now one of America’s most famous successful examples of drastic weight loss, Palu will join me for Brita Climate Ride , which starts bright and early tomorrow, September 21 in Eureka, California…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Fired for Commuting to Work on a Segway? No Way!

Posted on September 15, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image: pdsphil, Flickr Could you get fired for riding your Segway to work? What if it needs a charge to get you back home again so you plug it in to your employer’s socket? Of course, you cannot answer such a question without a little bit of context. Maybe the guy parked his Segway in the boss’ office. Maybe it was just the last in a long line of provocations. But in this case, the context allows no such conclusion. The employee in question is a 41-year old computer technician, with 19 years of blemish-free performance. He rented a Segway t… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Cyclist Musician To Tour with Cello and Recycled, Solar-Powered, Electric-Assist Bicycle Trailer

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photos: Kristin Rule A couple of years ago Kristin Rule, alias ‘The Unconventional Cellist’ undertook a 20 week music tour, toting her cello on a motorbike with a solar trailer. With a new album recently released, she is soon to be touring again, but this time by bicycle accompanied by a solar-powered, electric-assist trailer. The 30 watt solar photovoltaic panel on the ‘Mechanarchy ‘Watt-Bot’ trailer stores electrical energy in a pair of 12 volt batteries. These provide up to three hours of electrically assisted riding for pedalling a cello laden … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Take A Blue Vacation On The San Juan Islands

Posted on August 29, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo via wonderofcreation.org With Labor Day around the corner, people are trying to get their last licks of summer in before the days get shorter and the temperatures get cooler. One suggestion where you can travel close to a big city, but still feel worlds away are the San Juan Islands in Washington. The San Juan Islands, which are located in the northwest corner of the state are actually an archipelago of 172 named islands, but the Washington State Ferry serves only… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Le Pliable. French for Folding Bike Concept

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

All images: Saul Maret Over the past half dozen years we’ve had more folding bikes cross our screens at TreeHugger than a rear bicycle wheel has spokes. And they keep on coming. The latest one is courtesy of Saul Maret, a French designer, currently based in Boston, Massachusetts. He has shipped images of his Le Pliable folding bike around to various websites the past few weeks. And as best we can make out the bike is still at the concept stage, with the pix only showing CAD renderings. But still, it is an interesting idea for a compact bike…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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