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Don’t Miss the Weekend Without Oil August 21 & 22!

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

If you prefer to walk or bike instead of using a car, enjoy being outside, use reusable bags, avoid plastic bottles, eat meat sparingly or not at all, research makeup and cosmetic products for safety, carry a refillable water bottle, and generally avoid buying crap you don’t need and using the stuff you do have as long as it is useful, then you are well on your way to successfully completing by DoSomething ‘s Weekend Without Oil challenge. So sign the pledge! The Weekend Without Oil is this weekend – August 21 & 22 – and aims to educate teens and pe… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Calls for Australia to Drop Compulsory Bicycle Helmets Laws

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo: Warren McLaren / inov8 Not that this is a fire that needs any stoking but Australia is yet again debating the relative merits of helmets for cycling. And remember this is the country that back in 1991, became the first to make riding a bike without a helmet illegal. Associate Professor Chris Rissel believes that “”What it does is it puts people off cycling and makes people think that cycling’s a dangerous activity, even though it’s a really healthy thing to do and it increases people’s physical activity.” Then there’s Professor Frank McDermott saying there is no question that if the current laws were overturned, head inj… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Can We Preach Green Without Being Preachy? (Video)

Posted on August 11, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: UNEP I asked before why so many people hate environmentalists , and concluded that it might have something to do with green living as passive aggressive preaching , disasterbation , not to mention the ever-familiar but oh-so-annoying

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Can GPS Slash Costs of Bike Sharing Schemes? (Video)

Posted on August 11, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: SocialBicycles Whether we are talking about grassroots “peer2peer” bike rental , or multi-million dollar public bike share schemes , there’s no doubt that these initiatives are revolutionizing the way we think about mobility in many cities. But managing access to bikes can be an expensive headache. Luckily, the rise of mobile computing is helping out here too. One proposed scheme is looking to take wirele… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Full-Sized Urban Bicycle Folds Flat, Nearly Disappears: The ThinBike (Interview, Slideshow)

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

All images courtesy Graham Hill. Graham Hill, founder of TreeHugger.com, is an insatiable tinkerer/designer who strives for elegant design solutions. His latest foray into problem-solving, a collaboration with bike manufacturer Schindelhauer bikes , has resulted in what he calls the ThinBike — a full-sized urban bicycle that all but disappears when brought indoors. Graham shares with us some of the thinking behind his idea. Love it? Pick up your own via special order through Schindelhauer. TreeHugger: What is about that living in inner city apartments that has focuse… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Food Posters From the Past are Recipes for the Present (Slideshow)

Posted on August 5, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Credit: Minneapolis Public Library The message on posters from World Wars I and II are often similar to the messages we try to send at TreeHugger, such as growing your own food, walking instead of driving, reducing waste and conserving. Two years ago I did a small slideshow, Frugal Green Living: Posters for the Movement , and I have been collecting American, Canadian and British images ever since. This summer there has been a lot of interest in posters from the World Wars, thanks to the opening of an exh… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Weekend Without Oil To Help Teens Reduce Consumption

Posted on August 5, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

We’ve been focused on educating people about reducing their oil consumption (see our Minus Oil series), so when we heard from DoSomething about their Weekend Without Oil it was as if the idea had been plucked straight from our heads. With a goal of getting teens to reduce their oil consumption, the Weekend Without Oil will be held August 21 & 22nd , so mark your calendar! Find out more about the Weekend Wit… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Mr. B’s Joybox Express: Modern Minstrels Haul Piano 300 Miles by Bicycle

Posted on July 14, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo: Mr. B’s Joybox Express Tonight is the finale of a summer tour for Mr. B’s Joybox Express. Blues & boogie-woogie pianist Mark Lincoln Braun (a.k.a. Mr. B) has been pedalling his custom-designed, piano-tricycle nearly 300 miles across Michigan, in what is described as “one of the longest human powered piano moves in history.” The tricycle hauling Braun’s 160 kg (352 pound) acoustic ‘joybox’ (an early American term for the piano) was made by Nobilette Cycles , who also craft handmade custom bikes, such as racing frames. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Downtown Cairo to Go Car-Free… Eventually

Posted on June 5, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

These kinds of scenes could become a thing of the past in downtown Cairo. Photo by Daveness_98 via Flickr. When it comes to crazy drivers, traffic congestion, and all the air and noise pollution that come along with massive amounts of cars jammed into one place, Istanbul, I’ve heard, has nothing on Cairo . But the Egyptian capital is apparently moving to remake its enti… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Pin It for the Planet: Canadian Campaign To Get People Out of Cars is Too Little, Too Late

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

The WWF in Canada is doing a campaign this week to encourage people to drive less. Not an unreasonable thing; after all, “That selfish and thoughtless machine is hurting the environment and not doing you any favours either. We’re not saying to stop driving completely! Just a little bit less every day.” Then it gets strange. They want you to pin your car key to your shirt . And don’t forget to pin your car key to your shirt. Yes, we understand it’s a little weird, but it shows that you’ve got both the commitment to the planet and the confidence t… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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