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 - Page 10
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10 High-Tech Bike Accessories to Improve Your Commute (Slideshow)
Bike accessories just keep getting better and better.
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10 High-Tech Bike Accessories to Improve Your Commute
Bike accessories just keep getting better and better. From a better (less expensive!) pannier box made from 80 percent recycled corrugated plastic to the latest in dynamo chargers, inflatable helmets, ultra-protection rain gear, and more, we've gathered
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Two Chances - Kickstart The Women's Bike Revolution
You've heard it before, right? Safety and convenience are among the top reasons women don't take a larger piece of the bicycling pie. Thus far, nobody's found a foolproof way to ensure that cycling is safe, (though we'll say it's
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Brits Say Getting Girls On Bikes A Breeze
While in the U.S. the bike revolution is happening, women of all ages and children under 18 aren't equal participants. In fact in the U.S. (aside from pockets like Portland,
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How to Pick a Bike That Fits Your Lifestyle (Slideshow)
One of the biggest mistakes of the new bike-buying person, according to Todd Fahrner, the owner of Portland-based Clever Cycles, is to assume they want a sportier bike than they
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How to Pick a Bike That Fits Your Lifestyle
One of the biggest mistakes of the new bike-buying person, according to Todd Fahrner, the owner of Portland-based Clever Cycles, is to assume they want a sportier bike than they actual need or will enjoy. That's not surprising, he says, as bikes have be
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5 Mini Fridge Freezer Combos for Small Kitchens
As with ovens, so with fridges -- manufacturers make smaller models, but seemingly not with the tiny home in mind.
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5 Great Ways To Get People To Ride Bicycles To Work
It's Bike to Work day! But in light of some rather gloomy statistics about who's actually getting on bikes in a recent report by John Pucher and Ralph Buehler, we thought it might be great to highlight some of the most
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6 Energy-Efficient Convection Microwave Ovens For Small Kitchens
In the search for the most energy-efficient cooktop (read more here) for his 420-square-foot apartment in New York City, TreeHugger founder Graham Hill faced a somewhat simple choice in terms of efficiency --
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5 Energy-efficient Induction Cooktops For Small Kitchens
The design brief: TreeHugger founder Graham Hill's 420-square-foot apartment in New York may be micro-sized, but his life calls for a great deal of outsized entertaining. So in spite of wanting
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Men Vastly Outbike Women and Kids, Study Says
Yes, there is a bicycling renaissance in North America, say authors and researchers John Pucher and Ralph Buehler. It's not an equal opportunity cycling revolution, however, nor is it evenly
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Tiny Homes Hit Mainstream (An Intentional Bike Neighborhood Is Born)
It looks like an oversize city lot - just 15,000 square feet - destined for some starter castle. But the plot of dirt sitting at the corner of inner city Portland's 43rd and Division streets is something else - it's the
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Fake Lake Makes Magic Water for the Magic Kingdom
Nearly everything about Disneyland, including the out-of-control and egregious consumerism, horrifed me on a recent visit. So horrified me, really, that I had to quickly suspend my judgment and my
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10 Recycling Bins: Good But Not Great (Slideshow)
We understand it's hard to get green product designs to market at a good price. Still, why have so few eco design wizards tried their hand at designing a recycling bin system that looks good, takes up as little floorspace as possible, and has enough
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10 Recycling Bins: Good But Not Great
We understand it's hard to get green product designs to market at a good price. Still, why have so few eco design wizards tried their hand at designing a recycling bin system that looks good, takes up as little floorspace as possible, and has enough compa
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Stealth Shopper Sneaks "Toxic" Labels On Deodorant
Consumers are usually the last to know the important information about the products we are using. Take cleaning supplies - many still don't clearly specify which exact ingredients are harmful and in what amounts they are
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Increase Cycling By Handing People Cold Hard Cash (Portland's OHSU Does)
As a blogger about biking, especially for women, I'm always mentally searching for the secret sauce that gets people to ride. Is it fashion, cute bikes, or tons of infrastructure? For me, the
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10 Ways To Monitor Power In a Tiny Apartment (Slideshow)
We've been hearing about the smart grid and the smart home for years, but if you start from scratch, how smart can you actually make your 420-square-foot apartment in terms of its energy and other resource consumption?
