Category: sustainable living
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Tiny Computers: 4 for $100
This would be an awesome exhibit for LinuxFest Northwest 2012: small usb computer kit.
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April 30: Bellingham Bike Swap
Matthew Velguth’s The Bike Shop program in Bellingham is putting on their annual Bike Swap on April 30. You know I’ll be at LinuxFest Northwest of course. However, if you’re not interested in nerding-out that weekend, the bike swap need volunteers: April 30th is the date of this spring’s TBS bike Swap and this is…
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Buy every person in our state a bike! (Seattle Bike Blog)
Sad but true: …spend $300 per state resident to build a tunnel that would only help 47,000 car drivers while causing injury or death to an unknown number of people walking or bicycling in downtown Seattle. Instead of a tunnel, let’s buy every person in our state a bike | Seattle Bike Blog.
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What is the Carbon Zero project?
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1910818917/carbon-zero-a-short-tour-of-your-citys-future
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Bike Lanes on Northwest (Bellingham)
This was forwarded from Dan who organized the recent meeting at city hall: Good day, here’s a little update on what’s happening around getting bike lanes on Northwest Ave., Elm St. and Dupont St. and three simple things you can do to help make it happen. The short version of how you can help: Send…
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Transport and Health (TheCityFix)
Here is a post talking about the World Health Organization putting together a body of evidence that cities that invest in active transportation maintain healthier citizenry. Every year, 1.2 million people die in traffic crashes each year. And physical inactivity is responsible for 3.2 million deaths and 19 million healthy life years lost annually. Dr.…
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Bicycling Keeps Cash in the Local Economy (Grist)
Money paid for petrol doesn’t stay in the local economy. It doesn’t really even stay in America. This Grist article describes how riding a bicycle instead of a car helps improve the economy. Not just from reducing petrol purchases, but by bolstering local bike mechanics and shifting the trend away from drive-thru fast food to…
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Computing in a Post Peak Oil World?
I’ve been paying some attention to the notions of community, local economy and self reliance in the face of rising gas prices. Oil shortages and actually, any resource shortage, can also affect how we use computers. High energy prices makes computing more precious. Lack of resources to construct platic, rare earths for constructing magnetic componentry,…
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No-weld homebuilt recumbent? Cruzbike!
I was reading this EcoVelo post on multi-modal bicycling and there were a shower of comments about this recumbent called Cruzbike. Not only are there stock models, but there is also a build kit that you can take a y-frame full suspension mountain bike and turn it into a ‘bent. Some Cruzbike discussion on bikeforums.…
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