May 22nd, 2013 
Stephen Wade 
People are funny, stubborn creatures sometimes. Even as evidence continues to pile up, habits persist. No matter one’s values or decision making process, it is hard to see how biking isn’t the preferred method of transportation. Biking is healthy. A thirty minute bike commute burns 300 calories, reduces heart disease risk by 50%, helps the [...]
Posted in Behavior, Featured Posts, Sustainability, Transportation 
Tags: Bicycles, Environment, Public Health, Stephen Wade 
No Comments » May 4th, 2013 Eric Wilson 
I’ve started a little research project. Most mornings while I stand on the corner I count the number of cars that pass by as I wait for my bus transfer from downtown Minneapolis to downtown St. Paul. Here are my results: Tuesday I counted 50 cars passing by as I waited for the bus, [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Op-Ed, Transportation Tags: Bicycles, Bus, Dispatches from the Bus, Mass Transit, Minnesota, Prius No Comments » April 30th, 2013 Justin Manger 
The city of Eindhoven in the Netherlands has literally gone above and beyond in their quest to make bicycling convenient and yet compatible with car travel. With one quarter of transportation in the region done by bike, it was important to find a way that people could bike while not clogging up the A2, which [...]
Posted in Behavior, Green Building, Justin Manger, Sustainability, Transportation Tags: Bicycles No Comments » March 3rd, 2013 Eric Wilson 
With sequestration upon us, it will be interesting to see where renewable energy’s future lies. Many of the cuts have been to military expenditures, but renewable energy offers a way forward for reduced utility costs for the Department of Defense. This month, the 8th annual military energy alternatives conference in Washington DC may lay the [...]
Posted in Conferences, Economics, Eric Wilson, Sustainability Tags: Alternative Energy, Bicycles, Bio-fuels, Calendar, California, Military, New York City, Santa Barbara, Washington DC No Comments » February 2nd, 2013 Eric Wilson 
A few years ago while I was teaching entry level environmental science as part of my doctoral program, I had students yet to reimagine/redesign Denver as a sustainable city. There were the standard designs that groups put together, the occasional radial pattern that I vaguely recalled from my urban planning class as an undergraduate, and [...]
Posted in Business, Eric Wilson, Green Economy, Sustainable Development Tags: Bicycles, Denver, Minneapolis, New York City, Urban Planning No Comments » December 17th, 2012 Justin Manger 
Depending on your neighborhood, bike riding can be a nice alternative to driving while getting some often seriously lacking exercise in our modern lives. But isn’t it a pain to deal with inflating tires and getting the occasional flat tire when you are miles from home? Colorado-based start-up Britek Tire and Rubber has your back. [...]
Posted in Business, Energy Efficiency, Green Products, Justin Manger, News, Transportation Tags: Bicycles, Green Product No Comments » November 12th, 2012 The Angry Pedestrian 
This isn’t the first time I’ve borrowed liberally from a deceased author. So, Mr. Orwell, please forgive my transgressions. You may have written “four legs good, two legs bad” but we’re in a different era now. To the masses I say “Two legs good, four WHEELS bad.” My vitriol is nothing new to readers of [...]
November 4th, 2012 Eric Wilson 
Justin emailed me the other day in response to my recent post about becoming a father again. His email yielded a pretty specific response and triggered this post. My wife and I recently moved to be closer to family and have to figure out whether we can maintain the single car lifestyle in our new [...]
Posted in Behavior, Clean Technology, Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Op-Ed, Transportation Tags: Battery, Bicycles, Bus, Electric Vehicles, Hybrids, Mass Transit, Plug-in Hybrid No Comments » October 21st, 2012 Eric Wilson 
I realize it’s kind of a heady title, but my second child was born recently and it was a struggle for me initially to accept the idea of having two kids. A child reared in industrialized countries consumes an inordinate amount of resources. I realize the replacement rate is something on the order of 2.1 [...]
October 16th, 2012 Eric Wilson 
Aside from the massive inputs of fuel, cars are not a “sustainable” transportation source because they rely almost entirely on nonrewable materials like metals and plastics. Bikes, while powered by humans, also suffer from this issue. The aluminum, titanium, lubricants, and petroleum based synthetic rubber. However, Reuters reports that a new bicycle from Izhar Gafni [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, News, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Transportation Tags: Bicycles, Video No Comments »
