March 14th, 2013 
Chris DeArmond 
Cities across the country with protected bike lanes are finding that they promote exercise and economic development while offering a clean alternative mode of transportation. While road bikers and bicycle messengers often prefer “open” bike lanes that flow next to vehicular traffic, they come with several downsides. As a cyclist, I frequently encounter road debris [...]
Posted in Behavior, Policy, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Transportation 
Tags: Bike Sharing, Carbon Dioxide, Chris DeArmond 
No Comments » December 2nd, 2012 Eric Wilson 
If you’re a long time follower of the site or have visited our about page, you may know that Justin, Stephen Wade, and I attended Emory University down in Atlanta. When I was a sophomore I made what I thought was a prudent choice to buy a Honda Accord (which 14 years and 156,000 miles [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Op-Ed, Transportation Tags: Bike Sharing, Emory No Comments » September 20th, 2012 John Basalla Several weeks ago I wrote about Alta Bicycle Share, a company that manages the bike share process from helping municipalities prepare initial bike sharing proposals to repositioning bikes once the program is up and running. Alta runs the Capital Bikeshare program that has numerous stations in the area where I live. After writing the article [...]
Posted in 2nd Green, Transportation Tags: 2nd Green Revolution, Bike Sharing, John Basalla, Mass Transit, Washington DC No Comments » August 15th, 2012 John Basalla Since moving back to Arlington, Virginia, I have noticed that a number of bike sharing stations run by Capital Bikeshare have been set-up around the area. It started me wondering–what company runs these stations and how does the system work? After doing a little digging, I found out that Capital Bikeshare operates under a company [...]
May 23rd, 2012 Justin Manger What is it about Minneapolis? A frozen tundra in winter, the Minnesota city has already somehow built a reputation as a bike friendly city. Walkscore, which has found success evaluating which are the best areas in terms of getting around on foot, recently turned its attention to rating the ease of 2 wheel locomotion as [...]
Posted in Justin Manger, News, Sustainability, Transportation Tags: Bike Sharing, Environment, Minnesota No Comments » March 27th, 2012 Eric Wilson This year’s Tour de Fat, New Belgium Brewing’s celebration of the bike, has announced its 2012 dates and locations. Two new cities have been added. Washington, DC and Atlanta, GA bring the total number of cities involved to 15. See the full list below. Dates and locations are also available on our calendar. 2012 marks [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, News, Transportation Tags: Bicycles, Bike Sharing, California, Denver, Fort Collins, Los Angeles, Minnesota, New Belgium Brewery, Video, Washington DC No Comments » March 10th, 2012 Eric Wilson When I think of college towns Ann Arbor, Michigan or Eugene, Oregon come to mind. Admittedly, these are enormous state universities, but they arguably serve as the economic engines of the towns. Mayor Vincent Gray and university presidents across the city want Washington D.C. to be the “greenest college town” in the country. While DC [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, News, Sustainability Tags: Ann Arbor, Bike Sharing, Washington DC No Comments » March 2nd, 2012 Eric Wilson Last week’s Five Friday Facts profiled some of the statistics related to Washington D.C.’s bike sharing program. This week we take a look at Denver’s program (B Cycle), which reopens for business on Monday, March 12th. 202,731: Number of rides in 2011, compared to 102,981 rides in 2010 42,318: Short term membership (24-hour kiosk, 24-hour [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Five Friday Facts, Transportation Tags: Bike Sharing, Denver, Mass Transit, Washington DC No Comments » February 24th, 2012 Justin Manger Now a standard sight around the nation’s capital, the sturdy, bright red bikes first appeared in 2010. After two years, the popular Capital Bikeshare program has done much better than expected. Future expansion may include the suburbs of Bethesda, Silver Spring, Takoma Park, Friendship Heights and Forest Glen. Here are a few facts about the rapidly [...]
February 8th, 2012 Eric Wilson Evoking the memory of E.F. Schumacher, the German born economist who wrote Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered, a new service by the name of Uniiverse has launched with the goal of serving as a platform for collaborative living. Schumacher’s vision of local economies moves one step further with Uniiverse, which “is an [...]
Posted in Behavior, Business, Economics, Eric Wilson, Green Economy Tags: Bike Sharing, Collaborative Consumption, Triple Bottom Line, Video No Comments »
