Monthly Archives: December 2009

Culinary Cycling Adventure Series

Introducing “Pedaling”, a gastronomic adventure on two wheels – New Culinary Cycling Adventure Series Features NYC in First Installment This looks like my style of adventure cycling: A new series of videos beginning in 2010 to highlight the joy of eating and cycling at PEDALING.TV. The PEDALING episodes will contain practical tips for urban cycling, read more »

SF Critical Mass

A sorta new SF Critical Mass blog with do’s and dont’s of CM. Explanation of the reason for this blog at Streetsblog SF. CM is on the last Friday of the month. That would be on Christmas Day this month.

Amsterdam hits roadblocks in electric car promotion

In order to meet greenhouse gas emission goals, the city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands aggressively promotes electric cars. Amsterdam pays half the cost of plug in electric cars and gives free power to recharge the batteries. They are also considering free parking for electric cars in a city where space for any vehicle comes read more »

Low Tech Transportation

The Streetsblog Network and Seattle Transit tipped me off to a delightful resource: Low Tech Magazine (paradoxically published and probably made possible through the Internet, but never mind that). Their premise: Low-tech Magazine refuses to assume that every problem has a high-tech solution. A simple, sensible, but nevertheless controversial message; high-tech has become the idol read more »

I drove to work today, oh boy

I drove to work today for the 3rd time this year. My wife is working today and my daughter is out of school for the holidays, so I planned to do the bus / train / bike trip together with my daughter. She’s accustomed to that so no big deal, but then last night the read more »

Miracles