Studio Gelardi, a sustainable product design and engineering firm based in New York, USA, invented an interesting tool for developing bicycle communities last year. The “Contrail” is a concept bicycle device that you can fix above the wheel of your bike and that covers the bicycle wheel with a coloured layer of chalk.
The purpose is [...]
Imagine that you are living in the late 19th century. Now, imagine that TV has already been invented. Not only that, but one of the most popular TV shows is Dragons Den, where investors decide whether they should put their cash into the new ideas that are paraded in front of them by eager inventors. [...]
The Bamboo Bike began as a small project in 1995 by Craig Calfee and has evolved into assisting entrepreneurs in the developing world to make their own bicycles out of locally sourced bamboo.
Bamboo bicycles are now produced in Ghana, West Africa, and soon in other African countries. Bicycles are in great demand as a major [...]
Cyclists in Berkeley, US , were celebrating after the city council approved to help the expansion of a downtown bike park station. The anouncement coming at the end of last year, is a critical hurdle overcome for activists, who now have hopes set on a June deadline for the next set of project funding.
After a [...]
Zagreb-based Green Action, Croatia’s largest environmental NGO, celebrated its 20th anniversary on January 22. On the same day, its activists, along with those of the Right to the City (Pravo na grad) initiative, temporarily occupied part of Zagreb’s pedestrian zone, due to be turned into an entrance ramp for an underground car park, for several [...]
Obesity is a growing problem in the United Kingdom and worryingly it is spreading to a young generation. One third of 10 and 11-year-old children in Bournemouth and Poole, Southeast UK are either overweight or obese. Today the school run accounts for 20% of all cars on the road and obesity levels in the UK [...]
The transport minister of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Oliver Wittke, was caught on camera at the speed of 109 km/h in a municipality where the speed limit was 50. His driving license was taken away, but people from different political camps asked for his resignation.
For Dirk Fisher from Witkke’s party CDU, “When a [...]
Since the book Car Troubles was such an interesting read, we decided to have a chat with the book’s co-editor Jim Conley. Conley is associate professor in the Department of Sociology, Trent University in Ontario, Canada, where among other things he teaches the course “Sociology of the Automobile”.
Car Troubles revolves around the concepts of automobility [...]
A 62-year-old woman was caught in Germany after circling a roundabout more than 50 times. She explained to the police that she wanted to “break in” her new car, but that it “would not work so well” on normal surface streets. “The officers blocked the car with their patrol vehicle and brought the pilot in [...]
We are very pleased to announce that the 41st issue of Carbusters has been released and that our dear subscribers should get the new issue this week! The new issue features, among other things, a new column by Joel Crawford on carfree conversions; a special on greenwashing; an interview with Jim Conley; a world news update; [...]
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