More bikes than cars on Agnew Road, Santa Clara, California. Drop below for the actual news photos. A young migrant cycles through the ‘Jungle’ camp in the northern French city of Calais on October 29, 2015. Winter is coming to Calais, raising fears among aid groups about worsening conditions for the thousands of migrants living […]
I wrote an application that checks the weather forecast each morning for select US West Coast cities. If higher winds are forecast, this application automatically tweets the time, direction and speed for your possible beneficial use. You can check my Twitter after 6 AM Pacific for these forecasts.
Don’t try this at home, kids, even if you’re a professional.
From Tawn Kennedy, who runs the Green Ways to School program for Bike Santa Cruz County in California:
Do you remember the record 23 Category 4 & 5 Hurricanes I mentioned last Friday? One of those, the one-time Category 4 Hurricane Olaf, is now a tropical depression tracking towards the California coast. By the time it reaches us it will be a low-pressure system bringing possible rain and wind, especially along the coast […]
Revelers ride bicycles during Oktoberfest on October 24, 2015 in Blumenau, Brazil. The city, founded in 1850 by Dr. Hermann Bruno Otto Blumenau and seventeen other German immigrants, helds its annual Oktoberfest last weekend. An estimated 30 percent of the city’s 320,000 residents are of German descent. Its Oktoberfest is one of the largest in […]