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 3
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Bikes are a Key Tool To Help Kids Live Long Healthy Lives
Yes, our nation is obese. A new report from Nike details how that simple, two-wheeled wonder, the bicycle, is key in giving kids back the lifespan they are now losing.
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There IS a Bicycle Economy, Two Cities Find
Conventional merchants are afraid to lose parking spaces to bike parking or bike lanes. New York and Portland are finding cyclists increase local economies, and spend more, too!
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Ethanol Plant Carbon Sequestration Makes a Million Tons of CO2 Disappear
Biorecro's technology adds an important element to carbon capture and sequestration - the ability to create negative emissions.
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People Don't Want to Drive More - But How to Get Them on Bikes?
Americans hate traffic - an NRDC poll shows 42% of us want new transit over new highways. While we wait for public policy and money to catch up, why not ride a bike?
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A Solar Trailer Can (Re)Charge Your Solar Airplane
Flying home for the holidays on a commercial solar jet may still be in Jetsons territory, but if you can afford a tiny prop plane, you can charge it via the sun
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Staycations Are Slipping; Will Bike-cations Be the Next Trend?
Whether the Great Recession is over or permanent, Americans seem to want more from a vacation than staying home. Biking is a beautiful way to vacation.
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Flashmob Creates Instant Human Crosswalks (Video)
A Parisian 'swarm' that looks mystifying at first but is a protest against car culture that leaves pedestrians completely out of luck. Oh yeah, and it's an instant crosswalk!
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What Is Bikestorming? (Video)
An audacious goal to make bikes the majority of transit trips is probably crazy, but why not try?
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Biking Is In Vogue (But You Don't Need Fashion to Bike)
Since we love biking, we love when bikes inspire the mainstream. Biking is so good, however, that all you need are two good wheels and your own personal style to get going.
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Print Instagram Photos on Edible Organic Chocolate
Digital photography has made us lose the wretched chemicals and excess paper of the Polaroid era. So if you want to save a summer memory, you can do it in organic chocolate.
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Doing Away With Disposable Packaging
Go Box founder Laura Weiss has worked hard to make Portland (foodie paradise) just a little more sustainable, waste wise, with her system of reusable to go containers.
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What Type of Cyclist Are You?
As Americans, we still tend to view cycling as kids' mobility toys or machines for 'serious' racing cyclists. Lo and behold, there is such a thing as a 'transportation' cyclist, and it comes in four varieties.
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Cars Kill, Make Us Fat Says British Report
More analysis by the British Medical Association on the need to make cities more walkable and bike-friendly. Are we really listening?
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'Green' Swede Says It's Okay To Eat Meat
Is there a voice of reason in the ongoing vegetarian-vegan-carnivore debate? One Swede gives her reasons for controlled meat eating.
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'Tesla' of Electric Motorcycles is Carbon Fiber
Norwegian engineering students debut an electric motorcycle made from carbon fiber. They say it will be fast, cheap, and get 100 kilometers to a charge.
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Cargo E-Bikes Take Killer Trucks Off City Streets
Reducing traffic congestion, lowering air pollution and CO2 emissions, even feeding the homeless while moving major amounts of goods. How one cargo bike company does it all.
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Invisible Bike Helmet Is Safest Bike Helmet
Hovding 'invisible' bicycle helmet - actually a collar that inflates on collision - grabs top spot in Swedish safety tests.
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How To Be a Naked Cyclist (and Why)
Naked bike rides continue to grow. They haven't lost their premise – showing how vulnerable cycling road users are – and they have gotten more civilized.
