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 14
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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
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Nurse Jody Makes Housecalls By E-Bike
Registered nurse Jody Hoppis wanted more time with her patients, and a schedule that would accomodate her life as a working mom of three. So she ditched her job at a family practice clinic and set up her own nursing practice
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Delivering A Local Solution to Hunger, By Bike
A few months ago Franklin Jones told me during an interview that he was working on a plan to help his bike-delivery business B-Line tackle the social aspect of sustainability that is frequently so difficult for companies to take action on. Yesterday,
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Bike Sharing Now in 100 European Cities
First was the news that the London bike share program (conspicuously sponsored by Barclay's Bank) expects to break even
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Goats Are The New Emissions-Free Mowers
Smack dab in the middle of downtown Portland, Oregon, on the corner of SE 11th Avenue and Belmont, there's a small herd of goats that are doing what they do naturally - eating grass and weeds. The goat herd
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Take a Look! EV Drivers Can Get Charged at Home
While it may still take decades for electric cars to be plentiful on our streets and in our garages, they are
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PepsiCo.'s New (Quieter?) Chip Bag Made From Potato Peels
In the U.K. they call them crisps, not potato chips. And perhaps because U.S. consumers made such as incredible fuss over SunChips crisps in (noisy) biodegradable bags, PepsiCo, owner
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Cart-opia: Repurposed Trailers Fuel Portland Foodie (and Livability) Movements
They are known as 'pods' or 'clusters' - groups of small repurposed trailers and carts with wheels that have infiltrated every major neighborhood in Portland, Oregon. Mexican carts serving
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New Portland Grocery Store Has More Parking for Bikes Than Cars
Photo: A.Streeter, flickr and Creative Commons. Know Your Customers New Seasons, an upscale Whole Foods-style grocery store that has enjoyed massive success in Portland, Oregon, is opening its seventh tenth store this week. The newest store, in the
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5 Things It's OK to Hate About Your Car
By the end of this year, the world is schedule to reach a milestone - a billion vehicles on the roads. Coincidentally, there are also now one billion bikes in circulation, nearly half of
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Why You Want a Hydrogen-Powered Fuel Cell E-Bike
Range. It's all about range. The bike pictured above, the Pedego Classic Comfort Cruiser e-bike, has a range of approximately 15 - 30 miles, depending on rider weight and hills. My Sanyo eneloop pedal-assist electric bike gets just
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E-Bikes to the Rescue - A Six-Month Review
Photo credit Richard Masoner via flickr and courtesy Creative Commons 2.0 Generic. This post is part of series written by TreeHugger contributors about trading in your car for a bike for trips that are two miles or less in distance. The series is
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Save a Cyclist...Stop Distracted Driving
I can't stop thinking about Natasha Pettigrew. She was 30 years old, a Green Party candidate for Senator in Maryland, and killed this month in the early morning hours by being struck from behind by a woman in an SUV. The driver did not stop, dragged
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Swedish 'Thermos' House Offers Low-Emission Life
Swedes are greener...they recycle more, live in smaller apartments, drive less and bike more than the average American. And now Volvo, A-hus, and the (definitely not green) utility Vattenfall are offering a lucky
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In Paris and Milan, Sparkling Water Flows For Free
Here's a novel way to get city dwellers off the bottle - the bottled water, that is. Local water utility Eau de Paris has constructed a public fountain in the Reuilly Gardens that has chilled and sparkling water coming from
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Americans Reject Frankenfish
If you've been following AquaBounty's attempt to get Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its AquAdvantage genetically engineered salmon (the salmon has extra genes from Chinook salmon and an eel-like species
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Oregano Is New CO2-Cutting Drug of Choice (For Cows)
You weren't one of those teenagers that tried to smoke oregano straight from your mom's spice rack, were you? The urban lore of the 70's held that smoking oregano would get you high, and yes, I tried it. It definitely
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What a Phthalate-Free Vibrator and an Electric Car Charger Have in Common
The most obvious answer is that both the WattStation electric car charger pictured above and the Form 3 waterproof rechargeable vibrator (seen below) were designed by Yves Behar, the designer who also had a hand in the
