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Bike Sharing: Saves Lives, Cuts Carbon Emissions

7:09 am in barcelona, bicycle, bike friendly world, bikes, biking, Cars & Transportation by TreeHugger

Bicing bikes against a blue wall photo Photo thompiks via flickr and Creative Commons license. It's no longer big news when a European city gets a new bike share program, unless they do it bigger, better, or with a technical innovation that hasn't been seen before. It is newsworthy, however, that data is starting to trickle in - in this case, from Barcelona - indicating how beneficial bike sharing is to city residents. Just like regular city biking, bike sharing makes urban residents fitter and drops our greenhouse gas emissions, says a study published in the British Medical Journal. And here's a key poi...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Drivers Beware! Park in the Bike Lane in Vilnius, Lithuania, and Your Car May Get Crushed By a Tank

6:00 am in bike friendly world, biking, Cars & Transportation, cities, driving by TreeHugger

arturas zuokas vilnius lithuania mayor tank car photo Screenshot from YouTube. Though bad driver behavior in Vilnius, Lithuania, hasn't quite reached Moscow-like levels yet, Mayor Arturas Zuokas had gotten sick and tired of cars parking illegally in the capital's bike lanes. While other city officials might have upped the number of traffic cops or raised f...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Sneak Peek! Designing The Utility Bike of The Future (Video)

7:07 am in bicycle, bike friendly world, bikes, biking, Cars & Transportation by TreeHugger

A lot of fancy futuristic bicycle designs have garnered TreeHugger posts. We all want to know what the future will bring in terms of cooler features and entirely novel forms. You'll notice, though, that most of those future-oriented bicycle ideas sport a bit of a Jetson's feel while falling short on amenities city cyclists really need - kickstands, fenders, back racks. Oregon Manifest, a bike design challenged sponsored in part by Levi's (recently out with bicycle jeans), is aiming t...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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World Naked Bike Ride in NYC Protests Car Culture and Body Shame (Photos)

12:32 pm in activism, bike friendly world, biking, Cars & Transportation by TreeHugger

world-naked-bike-ride-nyc-6.jpg All Photos Courtesy of Barbara Ross Sunday was a big day in New York City. It was the first day of legalized gay marriage, so there was plenty of celebrating going on in the streets. And to add to things, a horde of scantily clad, even naked cyclists were seen rolling through lower Manhattan and Brooklyn. They were participating in the third annual World Naked Bike Ride, NYC edition. With the slogan "bear as you dare," the ride was part of a worldwide network of naked rides, protesting against car-culture and car...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Bike-Friendly Boulder Awards Bike-Friendly Businesses

4:36 pm in bike friendly world, bikes, boulder, Business & Politics, car free, transportation by TreeHugger

Boulder biking photo Image: Richard Masoner via flickr Boulder, Colorado is a pretty dreamy place for cyclists. It's the fourth-most bike-friendly city in the world according to some, but living here, you get to see how the city doesn't view being 'bike-friendly' as a finite goal: that there are always ways to make things even better for cyclists. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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‘Carmageddon’ Puts Bikes Front And Center In L.A.

4:04 pm in bicycle, bike friendly world, bikes, biking, Cars & Transportation by TreeHugger

It's a rare event, and hard to resist for any cyclist or skater - a 10-mile stretch of I-405 in Southern California from Highway 10 to Highway 101 is going to be closed this weekend for 53 hours in order for construction crews to widen the roadway and demolish part of a bridge. The ensuing traffic snarl is being called 'Carmageddon.' It is also an opportunity for Angelenos to see how other methods of transport can serve them, and cyclists and flash mobbers are planning (unsanctioned) rides to take advantage of the wide-open but closed-off roads....Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Unbelievable Mongolia Unicycle Tour is "Half as Difficult as Biking" (Slideshow)

8:00 am in asia, bike friendly world, bikes, biking, mongolia, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger

unicycle adventure expedition mongolia photo Photo credit: Ken Looi, Adventure Unicyclist If you ever shied away from the challenge of a long distance bike trip, well here's a trip that really isn't for the faint of heart -- or the unskilled. Last summer, Adventure Unicyclist, Bike Asia and Grasshopper Adventures teamed up to host a tour of Mongolia by unicycle. The 12-day tour (with seven days of one-wheeled ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Cycling Duo Pedaling Over Two Continents on Bamboo Bikes For Fresh Water

4:42 pm in bike friendly world, bikes, Cars & Transportation, drinking water, Science & Technology, Travel & Nature, water crisis by TreeHugger

cycle for water photo All images by Cycle for Water Thanks to our new TreeHugger Photo Pool on Flickr, we learned about a really amazing project called Cycle for Water. Starting almost exactly a year ago, on July 4, 2010, Joost Notenboom and Michiel Roodenburg started an incredible 18-month journey on bamboo bikes, cycling from northern Alaska to the southern tip of Argentina -- essentially covering the entire length of North and South America. And they're doing it in the name of clean water. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Could This Guy Be Cycling’s Secret Sauce? (Video)

6:36 pm in bicycle, bike friendly world, bikes, biking, Cars & Transportation by TreeHugger

Back when I only covered sustainable business, my colleagues and I lamented the word sustainability - if we could only have a sexier, cooler word, we thought, the concept would surely sell itself more easily, and everyone, including the earth, would live happily ever after. So it is, to some degree, with cycling. The word is more apt to conjure a sweaty sport cyclist than a happy transport cyclist. Luckily we have Robin Moore, aka MC SpandX, to parody our cycling stereotypes. Living in San Francisco, he's sure to do Dutch-style cyclists soon, which may make this prolific songwriter c...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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More Proof We’ve Hit Peak Car Use?

7:14 am in bike friendly world, cars, Cars & Transportation, transportation by TreeHugger

Car Graveyard photo Photo kodiax2 via flickr and Creative Commons license. From the New York Times' story yesterday on Euro nations determined to make car driving an expensive, painful option, to the news that driving rates are dropping in the Pacific Northwest, there's never been more commentary and consternation about our car-centric world. Two Australian researchers are chiming in with their idea that Read the full story on TreeHugger

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