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 16
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10 Best Bamboo Bikes For Style and Performance (Slideshow)
Bamboo not only makes for beautiful bikes, it is one of the greener building materials we've got: It has a low CO2 footprint compared to aluminum and steel, is renewable, and even
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10 Best Bamboo Bikes For Style and Performance
Bamboo is one of the greener building materials we've got: It has a low CO2 footprint compared to aluminum and steel, is renewable, and even biodegradable. It isn't, however, perfect -- often it comes with a big carbon footprint for transport, and biodegr
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"2012" Is Back, This Time With Good News
That first movie "2012" was fairly dramatic and yet pretty much only scary until you exited the multiplex. It was just far-fetched enough to make you think it would never happen. Though playing off a similar idea - that some type of catastrophic
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"November Days" Filmed By Bike, Distributed By Bike
"Field Guide to November Days" is a new film by Portland filmmakers Mary DeFreese and Nick Peterson that I really want to see. Not just because its two protagnists live a biking life (and the directors
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Polluting Two-Stroke "Mototaxi" Goes Solar
What's worse about the two-stroke engines still common workhorses in motors of all kinds - the pollution or the noise? In Lima, Peru, plagued by air pollution, it's probably the former.
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If Bike Theft Makes You Fat, Better Bike Parking Makes You Thin
It's practically a requirement these days to carry not one but two ponderous bike locks, yet city streets are still thick with bike thieves. A British insurance survey recently
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Six Selfish Reasons You Don't Want Dead Oceans
TreeHugger asked Andrew Sharpless, CEO for the Oceana ocean protection organization, why we really personally care about the health and fate of the world's big water bodies. Many of us, after all, live far from
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Biking And Walking Get More Bucks, Keep Going Up
It may seem like an, "Oh, duh," with the government the last to confirm the news, but a 15-year report released by the U.S. Department of Transporation and the Federal Highway Administration shows a 25% increase in trips
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6 Ways to Boost Your City's Bike Mojo
When Portland lost its first-place, "friendly bike city" status to suddenly hip Minneapolis, Portland
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'Unreasonable Woman' Diane Wilson Doused in Oil to Protest BP's Liability Cap
Diane Wilson, one of the founders of the Code Pink protest group, today anointed herself with a glass jar of toffee-colored oil at a Senate Energy Sumbcommittee meeting to protest, she says, Senator Lisa Murkowski's blocking of
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Want to Save a Tree? Buy a Wooden or Bamboo Bicycle
Photo via Renovo. At last count, Portland had 3 dozen small-scale bike frame builders - everything from Sasha White's beautiful Vanilla Bikes to Joseph Ahearne's sturdy and cheerful cycle trucks. The "buy local" mentality in Portland helps create a
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Polluted Cities Like London Choke Pedal-Powered Residents With Dirty Nanoparticles
Air quality is not something we tend to complain about - a rain shower or snow flurries can stop cyclists in their tracks, but gradually worsening air doesn't make our daily talking points. Perhaps it should
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Is Cycling's Critical Mass in Critical Condition?
In Madrid last week, up to 3,000 cyclists slowed traffic to a grind in a few of the car-clogged central arteries of the capital city, but according to this blog, riders "made friends with drivers and pedestrians." Meanwhile, In Los Angeles, a
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Dense, Walkable Urban Cities Create YIMBY Neighbors
Looking at the massive build up of low-density, car-dependent housing over the last 50 years, real estate developer Christopher Leinberger says in his book The Option of Urbanism that
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Not Quite Ready for a True Cargo Bike? Try a Cycle Truck
Photo via Ahearn. The photos don't do these new handmade truck bikes justice. Ahearne Cycle Trucks seem to harken back to a perhaps mythical time when carrying a modest amount of cargo was just what a bike was built to do, without a lot of fuss, muss,
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Great Urban Mashup: See Cities As Jane Jacobs Did
Sometimes the biggest frustration for those of us craving green, healthy, and vibrant cities, is how slow progress can appear, and how seemingly huge the task. To be reminded of the what really makes cities thrive and be alive, pick up What We See -
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Where's the Beef? It's Heating Swedish Homes
Biomal, which is defined as a "renewable" fuel created from crushing and grinding animal wastes and burning them together with wood chips or peat, is quietly used by Swedes (and initially funded by the
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Cycle Superhighways, or BlueWashed Bike Paths? (VIDEO)
We've talked a lot about Boris Johnson before at TreeHugger - he's the London mayor that amazingly escaped death by an out-of-control lorry truck while out touring London's cycling facilties. He's also the man that seems to be trying to bring better
