Finding the Toilet in Stockholm
Last week a mix of water and sanitation experts gathered for World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden to mull over the world's biggest public health crisis. The problem is that not enough people paid attention.
Last week a mix of water and sanitation experts gathered for World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden to mull over the world's biggest public health crisis. The problem is that not enough people paid attention.
Inspired by such high-profile cyclists as Obama, Fey and Einstein, I've set to work amassing a comprehensive archive of 100 people we know, love--perhaps even despise--atop the bike.
Time just gave Montreal's public bike system Bixi an award as one of the 50 best inventions of 2008.
I've gone through about seven different bikes in as many years. The relative speed at which each bike was stolen was related to how beautiful it was.
Do you find yourself using a big car or truck when something smaller would do the job? Would you book an electric bike or golf cart or folding bike to cut your carbon footprint?
There are a lot of great low tech things around us that could help us reduce our impact. Take the bike, the sweater, and the awning, for example. Here are three pieces of "old" technology that are invisible to most of us despite their power.
I stood next to the Chicago river with a skinny little guy who had gotten it into his head that he was going to ride his rickety bicycle from the 'burbs to Argentina for twenty months in order to raise money for low-income students to go to college.
Never mind the banks -- it might be time to start worrying about a run on your local bike shop.
After the great success of high-tech bike-sharing program in places like Paris, with its Velib, and Barcelona, among others, it's about time for the U...
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Yeah bikes!
Fugging petroleum!
I want to give Albert Einstein a hug.
Where's Lance Armstrong? He's famous?
what great pictures. Al Sharpton, Who would've thought?
Why aren't these folks wearing helmets! Geez!
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