The notoriously small amount of electricity available in Africa and India is now being addressed, thanks in part to the steady growth of energy entrepreneurs who happen to be selling electrical power by peddling bicycles. A recent BBC program on The Forum featured the bicycle, and interviewed numerous business people, … [continued]
Originally published on ExpertSure Bloomberg News has assembled data from the US Census about the number of people who bike to work and where they are located. The top 25 US cities for bicycle commuting are shown in the graphic above. The top 5 on the list are: Davis – … [continued]
The buyout of Alta Bike Share, which operates New York City’s Citi Bike program, is essentially a done deal. It follows our report in August about the sizable pending financial deal withREQX Ventures, which is funding additional investments in the Citi Bike system to increase the number of bikes (close to twice as many … [continued]
Bikocity. CicLAvia celebrated their 4th year by taking us on a 10 mile journey spanning Echo Park, downtown LA, and East LA. The first CicLAvia was on 10/10/10, the global day of action against climate change. As always, the weather was perfect and the route was fun. The best thing … [continued]
Bikeshares are active in many cities in the United States, in 60 municipalities, and worldwide in over 300 hundred cities. Small progressive communities such as Aspen, colleges such as the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and large urban areas such as Washington DC, Boston, and New York City have programs. … [continued]
A new study investigates various models of how bike infrastructure influences cities. It reasons that policies and projects supportive of bike lanes are deserving of the change; deserving of the money spent which becomes money saved. Whether modifying infrastructure or changing a habit that is not serving oneself, change in and of itself … [continued]
While Tesla cars get a lot of attention because of little things like air conditioning, speed, luxury and being able to drive across the United States for free, most of us are concerned with a more important question. Which electric, self-balancing unicycle is the best, the Solowheel, SBU v3 or the RYNO? Solowheel, … [continued]
Since 2004, in 500 cities and 50 countries, shared bicycles have increased 10 fold. These numbers are not slowing down, but increasing. The Earth Policy Institute (EPI) projects that even the US, which lags behind, has (in 2012) 21 schemes with 8,500 bicycles, and the EPI expects the fleet to … [continued]
With everybody now in a spring’s swing, the time seems perfect for college students to make new green plans for going from place to place. As such, On Bike Share is joining the gig, announcing an affordable campus bike share system that’s designed to “make bicycling an integral part of college and corporate campus transportation.”
The European Cyclist Federation (ECF) published a study this week evaluating how well bicycles can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Specifically, the ECF’s report deals with greenhouse gas emissions directly or indirectly caused by traffic and transportation. The ECF determined that […]
