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 13
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Floating 'Slinky' Hotel Can Survive Rising Seas
Remember Biosphere 2? Well, fast forward to the Ark, designer Alexander Remizov's floating (or not) eco-friendly, energy-generating bubble hotel.
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Beijing Controls Car Purchases To Tame Traffic
The city of Beijing plans to issue only 20,000 car registrations per month (that's still a whopping 240,000 new cars annually) over the next year in order to control traffic. China is
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Would Bike-Only Boulevards Be All Bad?
While the debate rages on about whether New York's bike lanes are working right or hardly working at all, out here on the west coast in Bike City, U.S.A. (aka Portland, Oregon) there's a
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Green Overload: 5 Green Products We Don't Need More of
At TreeHugger, it seems every week there's a press release for a new line of reusable bags or organic body care.
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Biking Makes Teens Smarter (But Just the Girls)
Girls who walked or biked to school in a recent Spanish study performed better at school in verbal and math skills then their cohorts who rode the bus or rode a car, according to this story
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Xmas Stress? Get A Christmas Tree Delivered By Bike
Real Christmas trees - the ones you go out and cut down yourself, are a growth industry, says SF Gate. That's because young adults are flocking to u-cut tree lots, out for the experience and the family time that Christmas-tree
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5 Green Things We Really Need More Of
The continuous flow of product press releases through the TreeHugger mailboxes is truly astounding, and often inspiring.
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The Pope Wants a Solar-Powered Popemobile
Pope Benedictus XVI wants to replace his gas-driven 'Popemobile' (the 'Papamobile' in Italian) with a solar-powered version, according to a cardinal of the Vatican. Benedictus wants to
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Turning Urban Biking Into a Cash Cow
Those of us who bike think cars should be happy to see us coming, since we cut overall carbon and pollution from getting into the air and make the streets less choked with automobile traffic. Alas, it doesn't always work that way, so bikers console
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Does Senate Bill 510 Put Raw Milk in Real Danger?
Today the U.S. Senate passed Senate Bill 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act. After the recent scandal with eggs, and all of the other food safety issues of recent years (meat, peanut butter,
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Undulating Squid Worm Discovered in Vulnerable Depths
There is something mesmerizing about this clip of a squid worm, also named teuthidodrilus samae by researchers after it was 'discovered' recently in the depths of the Celebes Sea between Indonesian and the Philippines.
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Solving the Smashed Tomatoes Problem, Crowdsourcing the Perfect Shopping Bag
You remember your reusable shopping bags and schlepp them to the farmer's market, only to have some of those precious perishables crushed or damaged by the time you get home. Just last week, I lost part
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Are Some People Not Fit to Be Vegans?
What to eat? It's still a touchy subject, and posts about food choices here at TreeHugger tend to draw (at best) sprited debate and at worst, heated ire. So here's more fuel for the fire -
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Rapping Doctor Takes On Speeding New Yorkers
Yes, speed kills, and yes, we've heard it all before. But have we heard that excessive speed causes more deadly car crashes in New York than distracted driving and drunken driving....combined? And have we had the message delivered by a white-coated
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'Sustainable' Hotel Erected in Six Days (Video)
This mesmerizing time-lapse video clip shows the rapid construction of the Ark Hotel in Changsha, China. It's not amazing that this clip
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Portland's Bike Use Tops 7%; Are 'Neighborhood Greenways' The Answer?
I have an uneasy feeling about sharrows, those white chevrons that have been sprouting faster than crabgrass on Portland streets recently. Sharrows (and in Portland we even have "sharrow flowers" - four chevrons arrayed around the bike icon) seem like
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Should Sidewalks and Bike Paths Have a Designated Slowpoke Lane?
I'm a big proponent of bicycle commuting. When an acquaintance at a meeting this
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Best U.S. Cities For Electric Cars, Says GE, Are The Ones Where Everyone Already Drives
If you were asked what the best U.S. city for electric cars will be, what would you say? A compact city where keeping within your new e-car's range would be a cinch? Or would you guess the best city for electric cars
