The Illustrated City: Despite its traffic, for cyclists, Manhattan is a contained sprawl that unfolds like a pop-up book, its history evident everywhere Marcellus Hall Fri 20 Sep 2019 11.00 BST Marcellus Hall is a New York-based illustrator. His debut graphic novel, Kaleidoscope City, was published in 2018 by Bittersweet Editions; more of his work […]
Strong civil society movements are needed to ramp up pace of change, says study Fiona HarveyLast modified on Thu 19 Sep 2019 08.38 BST Greenhouse gas emissions could be halved in the next decade if a small number of current technologies and behavioural trends are ramped up and adopted more widely, researchers have found, saying
Eight-country poll shows people view climate crisis as priority over migration and terrorism Matthew TaylorWed 18 Sep 2019 23.00 BST A majority of the public recognise the climate crisis as an “emergency” and say politicians are failing to tackle the problem, backing the interests of big oil over the wellbeing of ordinary people, according to
Eric BeinhockerFri 20 Sep 2019 11.45 BST Human-induced climate change is a moral wrong. It involves one group of humans harming others. People of this generation harming those in future generations. People in the developed world harming those in the developing world. Each of us is emitting carbon that is harming those caught in climate-driven
By Katie Walter Friday, 30 August 2019 Dr Kate Walter is a GP in Inverness and she works hard to encourage and help her patients to cycle. She explains how seeing cycling help her long term patient Mick Heath, led to her to promote cycling, then create WheelNess and other projects to share the health
Mark Sutton9 September, 2019 Kicking off last week’s Eurobike trade show came the Cycling Industry Leaders’ Breakfast, a meet of the trade’s CEOs and influentials and the meet struck a welcome tone with much of the discussion centred on horizon broadening. The bicycle industry has come under much criticism for its focus on the sport
A lot of readers have had good experiences and saved a lot of money. In my post, “Why I think buying an e-bike online is a really bad idea,” I suggested that e-bikes should be bought from and maintained by people who know what they are doing. I have always believed that we should support
If e-bikes are going to replace cars, they should be taken seriously and maintained properly by people who know what they are doing. As we often say on TreeHugger, e-bikes will eat cars. On Forbes, Scott Kramer reviews an e-bike and writes, “I am officially selling my car to ride an electric bike full time.
Long before I got interested in how our urban places are put together I read about the city of Freiburg in southwest Germany and more specifically, the neighbourhood of Vauban which was built as a low-car eco-development. A few weeks ago I finally managed to visit as we’d picked Freiburg im Breisgau (to give the
This week’s Good Cycling Facilty is a newly-surfaced cycle path, with a noise barrier, alongside a main road in the outskirts of the Dutch city of Gouda. The path is smooth and wide. It runs next to a fast road, so a noise barrier (composed of thick glass) has been installed to minimise noise disruption
