A.K. Streeter
April Streeter writes and bikes from Portland, Oregon. Her career has included five years as correspondent for Sweden, Norway, and the Baltic nations for Windpower Monthly magazine, two years as managing editor for Sustainable Industries magazine, and many years as correspondent of Tomorrow magazine. Follow her posts on the biking life at girlsonbikes.org.
Latest Stories from A.K. Streeter
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What's better than breakfast for students? Riding a bike to school.
A Spanish study showed girls biking to school got better grades - now a new Danish study confirms walking or biking is better for your school brain.
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Which country is suddenly crazy for bicycles?
No, New York City is not a country. But there's a place where bikes outsold cars last year, and a return to roots means a big boost in bike sales.
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Biking can be cool... unless you're a teen girl
Research from PhD candidate at Portland State University uncovers an anecdotal truth. It ain't cool to walk or bike if you are an adolescent girl. Now to find out why.
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Hairy skyscraper to collect energy through piezo-electric straws
It's true those teeny wind turbines attached to big buildings always look...useless. So Stockholm architects tried to come up with better energy collectors for skyscrapers.
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No-petroleum sunglasses crafted from castor bean oil
Plastic is all around us. Zeale of Boulder, Colorado has found a way to made high-grade optical lenses out of plant-based materials. They are made from castor oil, that old bane of childhood.
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Portable bike brake light is also completely wireless
If you ride in the city and with traffic, this Kickstarter invention is exactly the gee-whiz gadget you've been waiting for.
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Driving is so 1995, chart shows
For the last eight years, VMT (vehicle miles travelled) has been dropping; we are now back to 1995's levels. Seems the kids don't care (as much) about cars.
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Stoopidtall bike gives aerial view of L.A.'s Ciclavia (Video)
OK, don't try this at home. The owner of this insanely tall bike can't stop mid-bike because he'd topple 14 feet. But that doens't mean he can't catch the many riders of Sunday's L.A. Ciclavia.
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Sleek city bike has secret family-friendly features
This new Kinn is sleek bike eye candy, but the designer built it with family cyclists top-of-mind.
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Why 'nobody' bikes in L.A., yet...
Well of course it's not true - L.A. has plenty of cyclists, lots of freshly painted bike lanes, and loads of bike-tivities. Still, where's the critical mass of cyclists?
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Carbon 'tape' easier way to cut CO2 from our flying habit?
A carbon fiber material made from tape instead of yarn can significantly reduce the weight - and fuel needs, and CO2 emissions - of passenger jets.
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Virtue and vice dept. says Saudi women can bicycle
We reported a while back that in Saudi Arabia it's difficult for women to bicycle. Now they are (with numerous restrictions) allowed. Should we rejoice? Not quite yet.
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Wireless charging for e-cars and buses is arriving
In Mannheim, Germany, city buses at regular stops will also charge up their electric batteries, making range anxiety a thing of the past.
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Bike delivery boom making big cities better
Big, big trucks on crowded city streets are a recipe for cyclist and pedestrian mayhem. B-Line and TNT are two companies taking monster trucks out of the city mobility equation.
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Volvo debuts new way to save cyclists' lives
A full 50% of slain bicycle riders in Europe were hit by a car, Volvo says, making the carmaker's new crash avoidance automatic braking a possible boon to bikers.
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Polluting bicyclists should be taxed, says legislator
Eighth graders know humans take in oxygen and breath out carbon dioxide. That means cyclists (breathing hard) should pay taxes, right? Uh, wrong.
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Beautiful city-ready bikes at 2013 Handmade Bike Show (Photos)
While bike love can be intense in the sport and speed crowd, this year's show had plenty of oohs and aahs (and lots of wood) for city cyclists.
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Folding electric scooter goes anywhere
The rounded, organic shape of this electric scooter makes it attractive, but is a 56-pound fold-up scooter at all practical?
