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British illustrator and designer Shtig who was working for Carbusters magazine few years ago created a series of spoof Olympics logos that ridicules this ‘corporate’ event. All images are anti-copyright, so feel free to use them as you want – for stickers, websites or whatever.
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Riot police arrest 23 in night raid on peaceful protest against the destruction of Zagreb pedestrian zone
Zagreb, Croatia, 11 February 2010
At 03.30 this morning around 100 riot police arrested 23 activists from Green Action and the Right to the City initiative in Zagreb, Croatia. The raid took place just hours after 4000 people turned [...]
This week, Mayor Bloomberg announced that Broadway in Times Square (42nd St. to 47th St) and Herald Square (33rd St. to 35th St) will now be permanently closed to traffic. What initially started as an experiment to improve public safety and traffic flow in May 2009 is being widely touted as an outstanding success.
After the test started [...]
A few days ago the Alliance for Biking & Walking (a North American coalition of over 160 grassroots biking and walking advocacy organizations) released their Bicycling and Walking in the United States: The 2010 Benchmarking Report.
The report reveals that: in almost every state and major U.S. city, bicyclists and pedestrians are at a disproportionate risk [...]
Today we released the 75th edition of our monthly e-bulletin World Carfree News, click here for more information on how to subscribe to the newsletter.
In #75 you can read about, among other things:
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3E Youth exchange in York (June 23-June 26, 2010)
Towards Carfree Cities IX, York, UK (June 28-July 2, 2010)
The story of Toyota cars having accelerator-pedal and brake problems, causing out of control speed and possible crash death in a fireball, is a near perfect allegory for something far more serious: the burning of the planet with fossil fuels including gasoline for cars. The vehicle for the burning of the planet is none other [...]
Now if it would have been a beer truck from a quality brewing company, it may not have made me so mad.
Coors Light used to have the beer slogan “it won’t slow you down”. Well, I beg to differ, it most certainly did.
This post was first published by Ryan Kopp on the Alternative Transportation of [...]
One could be forgiven for believing that part of the point of motorized vehicles is to shorten distances, make places far away seem closer, and to require less time to travel.
But sometimes the gap between expectation and reality is as wide as those modern streets that are so hard to cross.
On a recent trip to [...]
Now you can download the book Birds, Booze & Bulldozers as a free pdf from the authors webpage. Even though you might not agree with everything that Britain’s environmental direct action movement did in the 90’s, this inside story is definitely an interesting, informative, and sometimes quite funny, read.
This is how the author, Peter Styles, describes [...]
The bike: Personal transportation and personal transformation.
A film from the Fairfax short documentary film challenge.
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