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24 hours of the London Cycle Hire Scheme from James... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Image credit: Richard Masoner/Creative Commons From riding in high heels to the safety of women riders, we've covered all kinds of topics relevant to female cyclists. But when April suggested the world would be better looking if there were more girls on bikes, the accusations of sexism came flying thick and fast. So I wonder what these same commenters wou... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Photo credit Van Moof. In Amsterdam, a majority of the bikes are black. Look out at the sea of bikes parked at the city's Central station and you see a lot of black, highly practical and functional omafiets ("grandma bikes") that most women and men prefer in the Netherlands. There's a reason you still see so many of these on the streets - they last and last. But style-conscious Dutch bike designers at Read the full story on TreeHugger

Photo: Nissan Only 3,300 LEAFs in U.S. Until March 2011 One of the things that makes the Nissan LEAF electric car so promising is that Nissan was aiming for mass-production from the very beginning (f.ex. The Smyrna plant is expected to produce up to 150,000 vehicles annually, and there are other high-capacity Nissan EV plants in Oppama, Japan and Sunderland, England). Other car makers are no doubt thinking about big numbers for their upcoming EVs, but so far they've been more timid... In any case, it looks like would-be buyers of the LEAF in the United States will have to be patient,... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Nothing new about this; shopping mall parking in 1958. Library of Virginia. Alex recently asked Can Great Design Redeem the Parking Garage? He was talking about a new parking structure by Herzog and de Meuron on Miami Beach's Lincoln Road, which is a pedestrian street designed by Morris Lapidus. The late architect was fond of over-the-top glitz and in reaction to Mies Van Der Rohe's "less... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg, the main fictional character in the 1873 novel "Around the World in Eighty Days," was an ambitious man. His passion was to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days, but he had nothing on Louis Palmer, the Swiss teacher who built his own solar car and took it around the globe to demonstrate the power and potential of solar energy. Now Palmer has inspired others, and tomorrow five teams from four continents are starting a race around the globe with electric vehicles. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Image credit: Fully Charged Despite having recently relaunched his cult "Gearless" internet show as "Fully Charged", Robert Llewellyn continues to provide insightful, enthusiastic and down-to-earth content for folks interested in electric cars. From his recent road test of the BMW Mini-E to earlier ... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Screenshots via Reg Hardware Might augmented reality on smart phones bring a whole new interest in using public transportation? Well... it is really, really darn cool. Anyone who feels intimidated or frustrated by navigating a transportation system like the Tube in London, or subway and bus systems in any metropolitan area, could find confidence in Read the full story on TreeHugger

Like American cities, Toronto is taxed-starved to the point that a couple of years ago it couldn't find $75K to save its community yellow bike system. But its gotta be, as a former mayor used to say, "World Class", so if Paris and London and Montreal have bike share systems, so does Toronto. It is bringing Montreal's Bixi system to town, or a small portion thereof. Since Toronto can't even pay for civic amenities like garbage cans and bus shelters, let alone bike share systems, it will be sponsored, in this case by the... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Image credit: Streetfilms From showcasing Bogota's revolutionary transit policies, to the search for the mythical ZoZo, the thing I have always liked about StreetFilms is their ability to move beyond individual examples of best practice, and use that as a forum to explore the big ideas behind better transit and better cities. Their latest offering is no exception—looking at what happens when transit authorities hand over the keys to t... Read the full story on TreeHugger

From The Moederfiets or Motherbike Canada's ten provinces have varying rules about bicycle helmets; some make them mandatory, some mandatory for those under 18 years old, and some with no legislation. It makes for an interesting study on The effects of provincial bicycle helmet legislation on helmet use and bicycle ridership in Canada. While only the abstract is available, one of the authors told the University of Manitoba News: "Contrary to popular belief, provincial helmet legislation does not cause people to c... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Image via Star Tribune Composting is catching on nationwide as more cities provide services to residents for collecting food, landscape clippings and other compostable separate from recylables and landfill waste. But to test out if the St. Paul, Minn.'s Macalester-Groveland neighborhood is ready for such a program, Sonya Ewert is hopping on a 27-gear bike with a custom-made trailer and going door to door to collect compostables from residents. The bike-powered composting service is part of an experiment -- if enough residents like having... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Image credit: StreetsBlog From a cyclist getting shot for riding with their child in a busy street to a motorist laughing about the "gay frenchman" he killed, there's no doubt that cyclists and car drivers do not always see eye-to-eye. Nevertheless, when I wrote about a campaign to end truck blind spots, I was (rightly) chastised by comme... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Tucked away in the underground parking garage at Portland's Two World Trade Center is what is purported to the nation's first quick-charging EV (electric vehicle) station, able to take a Nissan LEAF from zero to an eighty percent charge in just 20 to 30 minutes. The new station is part of an ambitious Portland plan to put up 2,000 charging stations by 2013. Now all we ... Read the full story on TreeHugger

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