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 7
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10 Chic, Futuristic Bike Lights Changing Bike Safety as We Know It
New bike light technology includes rotating tire lights, buttons, fashionable belts, capes and more.
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Collaborative Consumption Comes To The Kitchen
Tool libraries are a wonderful boon to neighbors who don't need a hacksaw...until they need a hacksaw. Now the new tradition is coming to kitchen, home of expensive and seldom-used gadgets.
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Toyota Funds Bike That Reads Minds
This new "Prius of bicycles" switches gears based on your brain waves. Pretty smart, huh?
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Changing Your Bank This Week? Find A Green Bank, Too
"Change Banks" is a great slogan, but will it do you more harm than good?
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Police Confiscate Generators, Occupy Wall Street Switches to Bike Power (Video)
Occupy Wall Street Turns To Sustainability With Bike Energy
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Guess: Does the U.S. Have More 'Bad' Bridges Or More McDonald's Restaurants?
Graphic (bad bridges within 10 miles of San Francisco are in red) via Transportation for America. Transportation for America knows a very interesting factoid that affects practically everyone. In the United States, deficient bridge structures outnumber
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It's Mo! Car Sharing and Bike Sharing Combined (Video)
What do you get when you cross a Zipcar model of car sharing with a bike sharing system and a public transport pass on steroids? You get Mo. Mo better. Mo convenient. Mo mobility. Cargo bikes are one of the
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Crowdsourced Documentary on Cargo Biking Wants You! (Video)
Generally when you leave your hometown (especially if your hometown is Portland, Oregon), you tend to lose your sense of expanding bike love rather quickly. Traveling for work or for play (unless you bike camp) takes you through airports and subway
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Popsicle Stick Bicycle-Why Wood May Be Good For Bikes (Video)
Via Oddity Central and Cyclelicious, here a bike built from over 10,000 glued-together birchwood popsicle sticks. Sun Chao's bike is a novelty - it took 4 years to build and with its wooden tires is not ready for strenuous riding - yet wooden and
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Baby Gorilla 'Shamavu' Saved From Poachers (Video)
According to MSNBC, illegal baby gorilla poaching in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is increasing.
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Why Recycled Plastic Bikes Aren't (Yet) Practical
We frequently expound on why bikes are an energy-friendly and clean form of city transportation, yet rarely get to report on innovations that take leaps in making bicycle production more sustainable and energy-efficient. That's why the Frii
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Portland Cyclists Log A Million Bike Commute Miles (A Month)
Twelve thousands cyclists in Portland - two thousand of them new cycling commuters - logged 1.3 million commuting miles in September's cycling commute challenge sponsored by local advocacy
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Two Containers Transform Grubby Gas Station Into Sleek Community Center
This 1960's style broken down concrete-and-metal gas service station was just another byproduct of our car-centric culture. Built in Portland's Northeast neighborhood, it languished, unloved and unused, a sad brownfield, for
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10 Best Bike Innovations From Oregon Manifest 2011 (Slideshow)
The most innovative ideas in craft bicycle design recently made their debut at bi-annual design-build competition Oregon Manifest 2011, held September 23-24 in Portland, Oregon.
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10 Best Bike Innovations From Oregon Manifest 2011
The most innovative ideas in craft bicycle design recently made their debut at bi-annual design-build competition Oregon Manifest 2011, held September 23-24 in Portland, Oregon. For this competition, participants -- 35 independent builders and five stude
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Think You Know What A 'Utility' Bike Should Be? Vote For Your Favorite
What is the 'ultimate utility bike'? The organizers of Oregon Manifest Construction Design Challenge 2011 Oregon Manifest 2011 aimed to find out. Setting that theme attracted a big batch of entries -
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Guess What? 2011's 'Ultimate' Utility Bike Is Electric
The Oregon Manifest 2011 Constructor's Design Challenge was meant to get custom bike builders to come up with some innovative and snazzy new utility bikes, in the hopes that their best and brightest ideas will trickle in to the
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Trick, Or Treat? Here Comes Our 7th Billion Human
According to the United Nations Population Fund counters, Halloween will be the approximate date when the 7 billionth human will be born on to our planet (give or take a day or a month or two). Some believe this milestone is not an event to be feared
