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This Valentine's Day, Celebrate All Kinds of Love
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What the 2.4-Cent Penny Says About America's Budget Problem
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Birth Control Costs More Than You Think—Even for the Lucky Ones
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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Give Komen the Pink Slip: Five Ways to Support Women's Health for All
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Is Sweden's Classroom-Free School the Future of Learning?
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What Would a Post-SOPA Internet Look Like?
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A 375-Year-Old French Bank Forgives Debts of Paris' Poorest
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Lessons from Prop. 8: Why We Shouldn't Put Our Civil Rights Up for a Popular Vote
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Intermission: The Most Beautiful Valentine Ever Made
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Labor of Love: 4 Lessons From My Imperfect Love Life
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Wastelands Around the World Unite! Cities' Forgotten Spaces Become Artists' Canvases
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People Are Awesome: Politicians Slash Gas Prices for Needy Drivers
today's top stories from our friends at pitchfork
The average American is both overweight and spends more than 100 hours per year commuting, that vast majority of those hours being spent in a...
Wolfpack Hustle, Los Angeles's "fastest and most notorious bicycle crew," organizes a yearly bike race along the route of the L.A. Marathon the...
Biking is way up in New York, but the city only has one bike rack space for every 30 cyclists. The solution? Repurpose old parking meters: Under...
We've written both about renegade bike-lane painters, who put bike lanes where cities won't, and about issues that New York's Hasidic Jewish...
Overall, crime is down in Los Angeles, except when it comes to bike theft, which increased 29 percent last year. In the downtown area of the city,...
File this under fun ideas that will probably not happen: The flying bicycle lane. You attach your handlebars to two parallel wires, fit your tire...
Cycling activists from the LA Bike Working Group in Los Angeles are trying to get the city on board with their Backbone Bikeway Network, a...
If you live in an American metropolis, you've probably heard of (or maybe participated in) Critical Mass, a semi-organized group bike ride...

At Planetizen, they take note of the increase number of cruiser bikes around cities as a sign of the increased acceptance of bicycles. It's now...
In case you missed it last week: Dublin now has a new bike share system called dublinbikes. Dubliners can get a "subscription" to the service for...
A Los Angeles dream of turning 4th Street into a bike-friendly thoroughfare. This is the second entry in our miniseries "Better Bikeways." Read...
Copenhagenzine notes this new bike-friendly urban design feature in the Danish capital: It's a hand rail and foot rest for cyclists to use...
In the GOOD 100 we applauded the idea of not only creating more space for cyclists and pedestrians on our roads, but of appropriating car lanes to...
Our Secretary of Transportation, Ray LaHood, appeared National Bike Summit last week where he stood on a table and told the cyclists "you have a...
Recently, I've started noticing these bilingual, and potentially quite helpful, wheat-pastings around Los Angeles. I finally had to stop and take...
Montreal's Bixi bike sharing system has been really successful (in terms of volume of rides, at least). Compared to some of the other bike sharing...
And here's another fun chart: According to the most recent data from the New York City Department of Transportation, biking in the city...
The battle over which North American city is the best for biking is fierce and- most likely-unresolvable. Our latest Transparency will tell...
Here in Los Angeles, lots of drivers seem to regard the painted bike lanes (where they exist) as a curious concession to a tiny minority that...
I don't know if this is the first of its kind or anything, but Teague's new concept bike, Pulse, is pretty alluring. The main section of the frame...