One Less Car is about the politics of cycling in North America. One chapter covers the 1890s, while the rest of the book focuses on “biketivism” from the 1960s onward. It began, Furness states, in Holland in 1965. [...]
For the third year in a row, IG Fahrrad organised a public event on one of the busiest roads in Vienna’s town centre. The “Ringstrasse” or “Ring” road encircles the Old Town with four lanes for cars and two tram-lines, while pedestrians and cyclists have to share a small alleyway. On WCD IG Fahrrad, along [...]
Today Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778), Carl von Linné in Swedish, is regarded almost as a saint, “canonised” because of the scientific and cultural significance of his work. Science and Culture, together with pure untouched nature, are important ingredients in the detergent used in the phenomenon called greenwashing. That is, when corporations responsible for dirty and environmentally [...]
The bicycle is a small and very versatile mean of transportation. To make your restaurant, supermarket, parking lot or store into a bike friendly place is very easy. But depending on your concern, it’s possible to make some bigger changes in order to be able to welcome cyclists as first class clients. You can [...]
A collective of motorists from Colorado, US, in summer 2008 launched a call for civil disobedience against the extension of bicyclist’s rights and the state’s new law – about a minimum distance to keep between cars and cyclists while passing them. They distributed an amazing flyer explaining that “cyclist flout common sense, endanger those in [...]
Here is the statement about a very fancy T-shirt for all car lovers. “Since the first collection, this shirt has attained cult status. You like your car better than your friends? Then this basic black tee with crew neck exactly right for you!” explains one German website selling the T-shirt. Another is speaking about “the [...]
Paris and its suburbs are well known for its saturated roads and its non-stop traffic jams. And everybody agrees that there should be fewer cars, but of course nobody wants to stop using their own car. Following the same logic, two Parisian mayors created a small chaos in their localities.
When the conservative mayor of Levallois-Perret, [...]
As Vietnam’s economy booms, motorised transport continues to grow, as does the poor air quality in cities. Facing this choking evolution, the Green Transport campaign was born to promote daily use of sustainable transportation in Hanoi. It started with a Green Transport Day in May 2008 which had nearly 3,600 participants. Building on this success, [...]
If you missed your dream to be an actor, your car can nowadays fulfil it. Indeed, a growing number of vehicle owners are leasing their cars to television and film producers. “It was very exciting” said Brett Kenyon, owner of a Jaguar XJC Coupe to an Australian online newspaper. He gathered his wife and a [...]
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