Girl Meets Bike – Jacquie Phelan
The bike: Personal transportation and personal transformation.
A film from the Fairfax short documentary film challenge.
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Blog
Feature Article
Passenger Rights and the Rise of Public Transport
Public transport is essential to the quality of life of its passengers, both as a means to move around but also to achieve a sustainable environment. Hans-Liudger Dienel, Director of the Nexus Institute for Cooperation Management in Berlin, Germany, and co-editor of Public Transport and its Users: The Passenger’s Perspective in Planning and Customer Care [...]
Interview
Urban Inspirations: Andy Kunz on New Urbanism and High-Speed Trains in America
Andy Kunz is an urban designer, new urbanist and a proponent of building new train systems to solve our transportation problems. Kunz talked to Carbusters about the importance of New Urbanism for creating walkable and bikeable towns and cities, as well as the urgent need for investments into green transportation. He lays out his ideas [...]
Action Report
Naked but not Quiet
Cyclists from all parts of Peru met in Lima on March 14 for the World Naked Bike Ride. In total around 300 people took part in the ride – all ages, genders, some half-naked and some fully, with painted bodies and costumes – all looked different, but all were on two wheels.
Before the ride, enthusiastic [...]
Car Cult Review
Problem of Definition
Aptera motors have designed a new electric car that goes 160 km on a single charge and should be ready to be sold by the end of the year. Nevertheless, they won’t get money from the US government – funds that promote electric vehicles and other high-efficiency cars in the Innovative Vehicle Act. Why not? [...]
Car Cult Review
You have to buy a new car!
European governments are blindly supporting the car industry and this extreme support appears in ever more absurd manifestations. In Germany, with the pretext of promoting “green cars”, the government is currently offering €2,500 to people buying a new car. It doesn’t matter if you scrap a small fuel-efficient car to replace it with a Hummer. [...]
Blog
Some thoughts on the Copenhagen Wheel
The last week of the Copenhagen Climate Conference saw a lot of buzz for something completely unrelated. While world leaders tried and failed to put together a sensible plan on climate change (who am I kidding, there is nothing sensible about anything related to politics) an announcement out of MIT’s SENSEable City Lab basically stole [...]
Feature Article
Cars and the Economy – Liberating ourselves from the bondage of “common knowledge”
Liberating oneself from false belief may be one of the most powerful freedoms. It is also something which carfree cities advocates should be used to doing: escaping from the myth that cars are necessary for movement opens a whole new world of possibilities and makes many otherwise obscured truths evident.
