I received a congratulatory letter from the Menlo Park Green Ribbon Citizen’s Committee for the “Drive Less Challenge.” I’m either a real studmuffin or an ecoterrorist because I logged more bus miles than any other participant in May.
Monthly Archives: June 2011
Stop Signs: Cars and Capitalism on the Road to Economic, Social and Ecological Decay
June 6, 2011 – 5:09 pm
[Paradoxically, this is an ad] Author Yves Engler will be in California from June 12 to June 19 promoting his new book written with Bianca Mugyenyi. Stop Signs focuses on how cities have been remade based on the needs of automotive transportation. The book’s thesis is that the American obsession with cars is linked to read more
June Gloom
June 6, 2011 – 11:36 am
While those of you in the U.S. Midwest and South swelter with record heat, La Niña cold water conditions in the Pacific Ocean coupled with a crazy jet stream delivering arctic air straight to the California coast has resulted in cold and rain for us in California. The radio weather forecaster began laughing like a read more
Ray LaHood rides a bicycle
June 6, 2011 – 9:50 am
United States Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood joined a group of DOT bike commuters this morning for a ride to the office.
Manga Strida
June 6, 2011 – 6:00 am
The Strida folding bicycle saves the day in issue #3 of Gaku Miyao’s Abao Bicycle Shop of Namikibashi Street (Namiki Bashidoori: Aoba Jitenshaten or 並木橋通りアオバ自転車店).
Silicon Valley Bicycle Culture
June 5, 2011 – 3:41 pm
Happy Sunday. Ecolocalizer brags about the ease of using bikes to get around in Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, and Redwood City California and uses several photos by me to illustrate the point. In other news, Outside Magazine used my photo of Chris Horner in a story about Chris Carmichael’s ATOC Race Experience. Have a wonderful!
