4:54 pm in beer, bikes, buy local, car free, Cars & Transportation by TreeHugger
Photos Courtesy of Zach Yendra, Yendra Built Cycles
When Shannon and Colin Westcott decided to start
Equinox Brewing in Fort Collins, Colorado, they wanted it to be a local, green operation. And that meant no keg deliveries by car or truck. So to save themselves a lot of back-breaking keg-carrying, the Westcotts teamed up with custom bike designers
Yendra Built Cycles. The partnership yielded the ...
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10:44 am in activism, bike friendly world, bikes, biking, california, car free, Cars & Transportation, charities, ride your bike, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger
Photo: Mairi Beautyman
There is a certain irony in the fact that some of the best biking in the U.S. is in an area where people have rejected the modern world -- including bikes (for those of the
Old Order).
Pennsylvania's
Amish Country: With roads filled with more horse drawn carriages than cars, and rolling fields of farmland, obsessive photo snapping during the 68.7 mile, Day 3 of
Brita Climate Ride NYC-DC 2011 made...
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Photo: D. Langer
Congratulations and bienvenue, Canada's capital city is joining the club and re-introducing a bicycle rental scheme. They are using Bixi, the bicycles used in
Montreal,
London and
Toronto.
Ottawa first introduced the
rental scheme in 2009 as a pilot project for the summer. Now they w...
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5:03 am in architects, Business & Politics, car free, Cars & Transportation, commuting, corporate responsibility, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger
Photo: bdonline
All kinds of new modes of transport and parks are being built in London for the 2012
Olympics. It is getting pretty exciting: every week there's a new announcement of something different.
This summer work will begin on cable cars that will run 50m above the Thames River, linking two of the Olympic venues. According to the charismatic Mayor,
Boris Johnson, it will be 'as good as a bus route wit...
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6:00 am in activism, bike friendly world, bikes, biking, california, car free, Cars & Transportation, charities, ride your bike by TreeHugger
Photo: Mairi Beautyman
I have now pedaled 174 miles over three days on the
Cayo 1.0 Road Bike From Focus Bikes, and what can I say, this full-carbon bike is at the top of its class.
It's now approaching
Day 4 of
Brita Climate Ride NYC-DC 2011, a 300-mile, 5-day climate awareness bike ride and fundraiser from New York City to Washington, D.C., and I really can't say anythi...
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