Global Warming

Electric Cars: Why Bother?

Electric Cars: Why Bother?

Oh, the lies these people tell. Mind you, you can’t really blame them, can you? Put yourself in their position: You run a multi-billion dollar / euro / pound / yen business, employing thousands. For the last fifty years, governments have pandered to your every need - built infrastructure for your customers to use, gone...
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People Power Against Big Oil

People Power Against Big Oil

I got this in my email yesterday (I’ve added in some pictures here to brighten it up): The price of oil is as low as it has been for a while but the oil companies have simply jacked their prices up and the government will not do anything as they rake in extra VAT for...
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Cyclists Wear Smaller Smalls

Cyclists Wear Smaller Smalls

Not sure if you’ve seen this postcard - I think it’s from Sustrans: Anyway, this was confirmed last week with this video that I found on Imagine No Cars : Eeek! Yes, that is a man, that is a beard, and those are moobs. Mind you, it might not be cycling that shrinks underwear - it...
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Freeloading, Tax Dodging Cyclists!

Freeloading, Tax Dodging Cyclists!

Over on IPayRoadTax.com , one of the comments raises an interesting philosophical point to justify why drivers of cars have a greater moral right to use the roads than people riding bikes: "How much extra tax do you think you would have to pay if cars didn’t exist?" This got me thinking, so I did some...
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Bicycles & Power Stations: 1

Bicycles & Power Stations: 1

If you’re in the UK (and pay your electromagnetic radiation tax that gives you exclusive rights to the airwaves over mere tax-dodging radio users), you might have seen Bang Goes The Theory on BBC1 last night. The plot of last night’s programme was to try generating the power required for a family home...
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Greenwashing Cycling Is Counterproductive*

Greenwashing Cycling Is Counterproductive*

Yes indeed, green IS the new black. Whether you’re painting your nails with Chanel (or fake Chanel - the real stuff is rumoured to be going for around £80 a bottle), trying to put some clear green water between your political party and the next, or just trying to ease your conscience after a career...
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This Means You Too - Not Just The Germans

If you don’t speak German, this’ll seem like hard work for a Friday afternoon - you’re going to have to read the subtitles. But there’s a point to all this, so stick with it to the end. (via the excellent People Powered blog of Andy in Germany )
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Jarrow Crusade

Jarrow Crusade

I met my business partner for a quick lunch today in Jarrow - a place with an interesting history: In 1936, mass unemployment and extreme poverty in the north-east of England drove 200 men to march in protest from Jarrow to London. Their MP, Ellen Wilkinson was with them as they came south to petition...
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Xtracycles? They’re For Lightweights!

Xtracycles? They’re For Lightweights!

(n.b. That’s a tongue in cheek title. We love Xtracycles.) ANYWAY, having made that clear, take a look at this, which I found via the Bicycle Diaries: Until the punchline, I thought it was going to be an advert from some lunatic “we’ve got a big enough army not to need to worry about any so-called...
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