Tag: Car-Free - Page 4
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The Scandalously Non-Comformist Life of a Car-Free Celebrity: Hot Young 'Mad Men' Actor Tells All!
The tendency in Hollywood to "equate carlessness to loserdom" is well-documented, but one of its young stars is bucking that trend. Mad Men actor Vincent Kartheiser not only
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407 Bicycle Solutions: The Very Versatile Velocipede
Pedal power epitomises the type of solutions we need to embrace for a brighter future: efficient, accessible, human scale, non-polluting, simple, field-repairable, etc. Hence this little homage: 26 different bike round-ups totally some 407 bicycle
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Do Your Kids Walk to School? October is Walk to School Month
Do your kids walk to school? If they do,
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Smart Green Bike Gear for Cyclists
Trading your car for a bike -- even just on short trips -- is one of the easiest (and healthiest) ways to make a dramatic difference in your carbon footprint. But whether you're a morning commuter or a weekend racer, successful biking depends on the right
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Take Back the Streets! It's PARK(ing) Day
If you're ever frustrated by how much urban space is dedicated to cars instead of public use, today is your day. All over the world, citizens, artists and activists
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Fired for Commuting to Work on a Segway? No Way!
Could you get fired for riding your Segway to work? What if it needs a charge to get you back home again so you plug it in to your employer's socket?
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Charming Colonial Streets of San Juan to Go Car Free
I've had a soft spot for Puerto Rico since taking a work trip there four or five years ago. I'd heard some negative things about the island,
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Cyclist Musician To Tour with Cello and Recycled, Solar-Powered, Electric-Assist Bicycle Trailer
A couple of years ago Kristin Rule, alias 'The Unconventional Cellist' undertook a 20 week music tour, toting her cello on a motorbike with a solar trailer. With a new album recently released, she is soon to be touring again, but
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Take A Blue Vacation On The San Juan Islands
With Labor Day around the corner, people are trying to get their last licks of summer in before the days get shorter and the temperatures get cooler. The San Juan Islands, in Washington, provide a destination close to a
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Don't Miss the Weekend Without Oil August 21 & 22!
If you prefer to walk or bike instead of using a car, enjoy being outside, use reusable bags, avoid plastic bottles, eat meat sparingly or not at all, research makeup and cosmetic products for safety, carry a refillable water bottle, and generally
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There's No Such Thing As Free Parking
Alex recently asked Can Great Design Redeem the Parking Garage? He was talking about a new parking structure by Herzog and de Meuron on Miami Beach's Lincoln Road, which is a
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Can Great Design Redeem the Parking Garage?
Parking garages are generally considered to be a necessary evil: necessary because everyone drives; evil because they are usually drab, ugly concrete structures that take up valuable urban space. Yet in recent
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Can GPS Slash Costs of Bike Sharing Schemes? (Video)
Whether we are talking about grassroots "peer2peer" bike rental, or multi-million dollar public bike share schemes, there's no doubt that these initiatives are revolutionizing the way we think about mobility in many cities.
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Full-Sized Bicycle Folds Flat, Nearly Disappears: The ThinBike (Slideshow)
Graham Hill, founder of TreeHugger.com, is an insatiable tinkerer/designer who strives for elegant design solutions. His latest foray into problem-solving, a collaboration with bike manufacturer Schindelhauer bikes, has
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Weekend Without Oil To Help Teens Reduce Consumption
We've been focused on educating people about reducing their oil consumption (see our Minus Oil series), so when we heard from DoSomething about their Weekend Without Oil it was as if the idea had
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Can Peer2Peer Rental Challenge London's New Bike Share Scheme?
Image credit: Cycle London London's new bike rental scheme, like Paris' velib scheme before it, may be a huge hit. But there's a young upstart on the block that is looking to offer an alternative to these large-scale schemes—and it says it can
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5 Innovations to Make Telecommuting Easy & Green
Image credit: US Strategic Perspective Institute/the Working from Home Council Many employers still resist telecommuting, but there's no doubt that encouraging people to work from home—even part time—could go a long way toward cutting
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Kevin Scott's Bendy Bike, It Wraps Around Posts for Secure Locking.
We've seen a plethora of ways for securing bikes against theft, but this might be the most creative. The whole bike bends around a suitable post to become, in effect, the loop through which the bike is secure
