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How to Set Up a Bike Repair Service
Did you read that great article in The New York Times Magazine called “The Case for Working With Your Hands”? Well, if you want to put Matt Crawford’s advice into practice and make some money fixing real, tangible problems, check out this comprehensive guide to setting up and operating your own bike repair service from The Oil Drum. Bonus: This job can’t be outsourced.
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Transparency: The Effects of Bike Commuting on Obesity
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 car. Are those numbers correlated? Could we help reduce our societal weight gain by encouraging more commutes by bike or foot? Our latest Transparency is a look at the number of active commutes in several countries, as compared to those countries obesity rates.
A collaboration between GOOD and Lamosca.
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TreeHugger Explores the World of Cargo Bicycles
In their ongoing series devoted to moving cargo around by bike, TreeHugger focuses today’s entry to the workhorse of the genre: extended frame bikes. Here’s a glimpse:
In our endeavours to take a snapshot of the world of Bicycle Cargo we have to date looked at the Racks And Bags used for bicycle cargo as well as the Bike Trailer. Now in Chapter Three, we take a gander at over 20 Extended Frame Bikes, as used for the…
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Biking Is Way Up in New York City. Again.
And here’s another fun chart: According to the most recent data from the New York City Department of Transportation, biking in the city skyrocketed again this year. The colored bars represent the number of bikes counted at different commuter points over the course of a single day.
Our friends at Streetsblog provide an explanation:
The new counts bolster the evidence linking safer bikeways to increased cycling. New York’s bike network expanded significantly in the past 12 months, including…
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NYC Bike Commuting Climbs 26 Percent
“Here’s one indicator that’s looking pretty recession-proof: New York City bike commuting shot up 26 percent in 2009, according to data released today by the Department of Transportation. The increase marks the second straight year of robust cycling growth in the city. Last year bike commuting rose 35 percent.”
Original article: Streetsblog New York City » Count on It: NYC Bike Commuting Climbs 26 Percent
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Lanes, Citizens Still Divided in Vancouver
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 do it. One place this has been tried is on the Burrard Bridge, which connects Vancouver’s downtown to the Kitsilano neighborhood to the west. Last summer the city gave one of the bridge’s six car lanes to bikes. The idea was controversial, to say the least. Skeptics thought it…
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Emerging City Innovation
Most of the world’s population now lives in cities. How can we make sure these urban centers are good homes for humanity? Cities from Bogotá and Rio de Janeiro to Seoul are leading the way, using fresh ideas to reduce pollution and waste; provide efficient, clean transportation; and support biodiversity.
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The GOOD 100: Bikes
We Want to Ride Our Bicycles…
Bikes have been around for about a century and a half, and they’re still awesome.
Because we dig the calluses on the palms of our hands. Because we actually kind of like when our legs feel like Jell-O. Because we crave the brisk wind on our cheeks. Because we recall with fondness fastening Topps cards to chain stays. Because today we actually prefer the non-motor bike anyway. Because it’s the paragon…
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Crappy Bikes Lanes: In Pictures
Anyone who has ever ridden a bicycle knows how useless bike lanes are when they are a) not enforced, b) not respected by cabbies and other drivers, c) not maintained, d) way too small, or e) all of the above.
Check out this awesome Flickr group of photos about crap bike lanes, brought together by the Guardian, and inspired by the Warringron Cycle Campaign’s new book. If you have any of your own post about them…
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The GOOD 100: Fewer Streets
Blockade Parade
How closing streets can actually reduce traffic
As the city of Vancouver prepared to convert a car lane on the busy Burrard Bridge into a bike path last summer, some imagined impending anarchy. At the time, one cabbie, Jatinder Nijjar, predicted, “It is going to be chaos.” In fact, the trial—and the traffic—has run smoothly so far.
Nijjar might have had different expectations had he read “The Price of Anarchy in Transportation Networks,” a paper published in…
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How to Set Up a Bike Repair Service
Did you read that great article in The New York Times Magazine called “The Case for Working With Your Hands”? Well, if you want to put Matt Crawford’s advice into practice and make some money fixing real, tangible problems, check out this comprehensive guide to setting up and operating your own bike repair service from The Oil Drum. Bonus: This job can’t be outsourced.
Read & Discuss
TreeHugger Explores the World of Cargo Bicycles
In their ongoing series devoted to moving cargo around by bike, TreeHugger focuses today’s entry to the workhorse of the genre: extended frame bikes. Here’s a glimpse:
In our endeavours to take a snapshot of the world of Bicycle Cargo we have to date looked at the Racks And Bags used for bicycle cargo as well as the Bike Trailer. Now in Chapter Three, we take a gander at over 20 Extended Frame Bikes, as used for the…
Read & Discuss
Biking Is Way Up in New York City. Again.
And here’s another fun chart: According to the most recent data from the New York City Department of Transportation, biking in the city skyrocketed again this year. The colored bars represent the number of bikes counted at different commuter points over the course of a single day.
Our friends at Streetsblog provide an explanation:
The new counts bolster the evidence linking safer bikeways to increased cycling. New York’s bike network expanded significantly in the past 12 months, including…
Read & Discuss
NYC Bike Commuting Climbs 26 Percent
“Here’s one indicator that’s looking pretty recession-proof: New York City bike commuting shot up 26 percent in 2009, according to data released today by the Department of Transportation. The increase marks the second straight year of robust cycling growth in the city. Last year bike commuting rose 35 percent.”
Original article: Streetsblog New York City » Count on It: NYC Bike Commuting Climbs 26 Percent
Read & Discuss
Lanes, Citizens Still Divided in Vancouver
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 do it. One place this has been tried is on the Burrard Bridge, which connects Vancouver’s downtown to the Kitsilano neighborhood to the west. Last summer the city gave one of the bridge’s six car lanes to bikes. The idea was controversial, to say the least. Skeptics thought it…
Read & Discuss
Emerging City Innovation
Most of the world’s population now lives in cities. How can we make sure these urban centers are good homes for humanity? Cities from Bogotá and Rio de Janeiro to Seoul are leading the way, using fresh ideas to reduce pollution and waste; provide efficient, clean transportation; and support biodiversity.
…Read & Discuss
Crappy Bikes Lanes: In Pictures
Anyone who has ever ridden a bicycle knows how useless bike lanes are when they are a) not enforced, b) not respected by cabbies and other drivers, c) not maintained, d) way too small, or e) all of the above.
Check out this awesome Flickr group of photos about crap bike lanes, brought together by the Guardian, and inspired by the Warringron Cycle Campaign’s new book. If you have any of your own post about them…
Read & Discuss
The Best Commuter Bike Ever
Portland is holding an event called Oregon Manifest at the moment. It’s a six-week series of events celebrating “the art, craft and community of bicycling.” Last weekend’s design challenge asked bike makers from around the country to present the perfect commuter bike. Their innovations include lots of sturdy racks, saddlebags, and integrated locks (see photo). Check out pictures of the contenders at Core 77, BikePortland.org, and in this Flickr set.
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Want to Know if an Urban Environment Supports Cycling? Measure the Proportion of Women on Bikes
According to Jan Garrard, a senior lecturer at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia, the best way to determine how favorable a given city is for cycling is to measure the number of women bike-riders. From Scientific American:
Women are considered an “indicator species” for bike-friendly cities for several reasons. First, studies across disciplines as disparate as criminology and child rearing have shown that women are more averse to risk than men. In the cycling arena, that…
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This Week in TreeHugger: Bill Clinton Riffs on Emissions during a Slow Climate Week, Plus Brad On Green Building, Byrne On the Cycling-Dog Poop Connection, and Urine on Your Tomatoes
Treehuggers were all over the map this week: Brian Merchant sat down with Bill Clinton on the sidelines of the Clinton Global Initiative, while Matthew McDermott had breakfast with IPCC Chairman Rajendra Pachauri. On the other end of the spectrum, we contemplated picking up dog poop and the virtues of peeing on our plants (see below).
In the photo department, a few Treehuggers checked in on PARK(ing) Day around the country, Jacob Gordon checked out the sustainable offerings…
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Transparency: The Effects of Bike Commuting on Obesity
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 car. Are those numbers correlated? Could we help reduce our societal weight gain by encouraging more commutes by bike or foot? Our latest Transparency is a look at the number of active commutes in several countries, as compared to those countries obesity rates.
A collaboration between GOOD and Lamosca.
…Read & Discuss
Emerging City Innovation
Most of the world’s population now lives in cities. How can we make sure these urban centers are good homes for humanity? Cities from Bogotá and Rio de Janeiro to Seoul are leading the way, using fresh ideas to reduce pollution and waste; provide efficient, clean transportation; and support biodiversity.
…Read & Discuss
The GOOD 100: Bikes
We Want to Ride Our Bicycles…
Bikes have been around for about a century and a half, and they’re still awesome.
Because we dig the calluses on the palms of our hands. Because we actually kind of like when our legs feel like Jell-O. Because we crave the brisk wind on our cheeks. Because we recall with fondness fastening Topps cards to chain stays. Because today we actually prefer the non-motor bike anyway. Because it’s the paragon…
Read & Discuss
The GOOD 100: Fewer Streets
Blockade Parade
How closing streets can actually reduce traffic
As the city of Vancouver prepared to convert a car lane on the busy Burrard Bridge into a bike path last summer, some imagined impending anarchy. At the time, one cabbie, Jatinder Nijjar, predicted, “It is going to be chaos.” In fact, the trial—and the traffic—has run smoothly so far.
Nijjar might have had different expectations had he read “The Price of Anarchy in Transportation Networks,” a paper published in…
Read & Discuss
Transparency: Biking to Work
The battle over which North American city is the best for biking is fierce and— most likely—unresolvable. Our latest Transparency will tell you which cities’ residents make the largest percentage of their commutes by bike. Portland, Oregon, you can keep on gloating.
A collaboration between GOOD and Chris Korbey.
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LOOK: The Bicycle Film Festival
About a decade ago, Brendt Barbur was riding his bicycle on 3rd Avenue in New York City when he was struck by a bus. Noting that the incident was “kind of negative” and “obviously not a fun experience,” it nonetheless inspired him to endeavor toward something positive. But where many a civic-minded bike enthusiast might have been moved to don a suit and clamor about city hall, Barbur took a different route: he founded a…
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LOOK: Bamboo Bikes for Africa
Getting around rural Africa is not easy. Because cars are a luxury few can afford, bicycling is a more attractive option. But quality imported bicycles are not particularly cheap themselves, and local bikes are often so shoddily built—out of steel so cheap you can bend it by hand—that they can’t stand up to unpaved and pothole-filled roads.
However, bamboo, a new trend in bicycle design, might be a solution. With a tensile strength greater than steel, bamboo makes…
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Emerging City Innovation
Most of the world’s population now lives in cities. How can we make sure these urban centers are good homes for humanity? Cities from Bogotá and Rio de Janeiro to Seoul are leading the way, using fresh ideas to reduce pollution and waste; provide efficient, clean transportation; and support biodiversity.
…Read & Discuss
Bikes to Rwanda
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