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Mexican people in rural areas have got economic problems but are rejecting the government’s supposed solution. Its mega-projects are disrupting communities and making them dependent on international markets, big business and national politics. Bici-maquinas are part of a movement that keeps local people in control of their own livelihoods and communities. Carlos is pushing down on the pedals […]
A French collaborative bike mechanics workshop, called “Velorution Ile de France) has created a high-quality isometric biked drawing. The image above is only a portion of what is available. The image is free to reproduce and modify. Illustrations are not captioned, they can be described in any language. Commercial use is prohibited. Find drawing here. […]
The latest cargo bike is the C-Type Cargo Bicycle by Sanitov that fuses Chinese and Scandinavian bicycle design. It comes with a battery-driven engine and a GPS tracker system to log your miles and help locate the bike if it’s stolen. The stylish bike appeared in the 2010 London Design Festival last fall. Sanitov says […]
Ecocabs is the name given to traditional Indian rickshaw operations that are organized into a network and can be called directly by customers. Fazilka is an Indian border town with a population of less than 100 000 inhabitants. It is the first city in the world to have a dial-a-rickshaw facility. Mahatma Gandhi once said […]
Welcome to the future! Born in Holland, the country of bicycles and tulips, this is the hottest gadget on the market for parents. The Taga, classed as a “multifunctional urban vehicle”, has been designed to suit the demands of modern parents for a healthy and green lifestyle. The enticing urban vehicle is eye candy for […]
Here’s something to help get the average lazy student out of bed and onto eco-friendly transportation: having a folding bike in the house. Dahon, a producer of folding bikes, has teamed up with the UK’s “Hive” student residence project, offering each apartment a Dahon Speed D7 folding bicycle to address the transport needs of residents. […]
Studio Gelardi, a sustainable product design and engineering firm based in New York, USA, invented an interesting tool for developing bicycle communities last year. The “Contrail” is a concept bicycle device that you can fix above the wheel of your bike and that covers the bicycle wheel with a coloured layer of chalk. The purpose […]
The Bamboo Bike began as a small project in 1995 by Craig Calfee and has evolved into assisting entrepreneurs in the developing world to make their own bicycles out of locally sourced bamboo. Bamboo bicycles are now produced in Ghana, West Africa, and soon in other African countries. Bicycles are in great demand as a […]
Have a look at this strange construction. Is it a new fashionable toy for the urban citizen, lacking nature, a new method of generating green energy or a demonstration to protest against experiments on animals in cosmetic factories? Not at all, this is a creation designed in 2006 by a group of students from Dalhousie […]
It’s healthy, green and in fashion. Just how walkable is your neighbourhood? Walk Score helps people live a carfree lifestyle by measuring how walkable a place is – not just how pretty the area is for walking. The Walk Score uses data and mapping from Google Maps to provide coverage of the walkability of any address in the world. Although it only gives an approximation of walkability, Walk Score is still a useful tool to motivate people to get out and walk.
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