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This is a guest post from the very thoughtful citisven providing a window on how to accelerate two-wheels as a component of answering our economic, energy, and environmental challenges.

I went to a very interesting and inspiring presentation last week at San Francisco’s Public Library. The name of the event was Lessons from Amsterdam: How San [...]

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Carbon offsets are something that trouble me, with the analogy to medieval indulgences clearly seeming relevant for at least some who embrace them.  On the other hand, Energy’s Three Rs make much sense to me:

Reduce energy use (through efficiency and conservation)
Use Renewable Power as much as possible
Remediate for any remaining polluting energy use

Remediation can take [...]

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Editor’s notes: Another in the occasional guest posts, here chapter1  from Daily Kos with an excellent discussion of urban bike sharing programs.
I’m going to tell you about a quick and easy-to-implement program that will reduce both oil use and city traffic, bring large benefits to public health, and get people where they need to go [...]

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Should we be surprised that out Denmark, nation of windpower and bicycles (18 percent of trips by bicycle), comes an excellent approach to parental (and shopper) bicycling?  The trioBike provides real options for the biking parent. This carrier bike can carry two children (up to 180 lbs) and the carrier can be separated so that [...]

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Since diving into the deep end when it comes to energy issues, almost every day sees new fascinating concepts, approaches, and technologies.  Fascinating … exciting … even hope inspiring at times.  And, as well, as the passion builds, so many of these are truly ‘iPod Cool’.  
This is the fourth of a new series, iPod COOL [...]

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