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David Suzuki: Our Obsession With Private Automobiles is Unsustainable

bitefight via Torontoist Quote of the Day from David Suzuki in the Georgia Strait: Technological developments [such as electric cars etc.] are welcome, but maybe it’s time we started rethinking our car culture as whole. The average car in North America carries 1.5 people, which means that most cars on the road only have a driver in them. Is it really efficient to use more than 1,000 kilograms of metal to transport 100 kilograms of huma… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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David Suzuki: Our Obsession With Private Automobiles is Unsustainable

A Calmer Form of Bike Rage: Write In and Complain

Image credit: Torontoist The photo above comes from an account of a rather extreme case of bike rage documented over at Torontoist . But TreeHugger is no stranger to the animosity between bikes and motorists either. From the Tucson driver who laughed at killing a “gay frenchman” cyclist , through to the Asheville man shot in the head for riding a bike in a busy road with… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Canadian Editors: Freaking the F—k Out, Just Like Their American Counterparts

Funny Canadians. Our editors get into knockdown-dragout brawls where they kick the shit out of each other just for bad writing.

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Canadian Editors: Freaking the F—k Out, Just Like Their American Counterparts