Last Saturday we went on our ride to the Cranberry Festival in Fort Langley. We were so incredibly fortunate with the weather, it was a gorgeous sunny day and it was amazingly warm for this time of year. We had 9 people in our group. Here are some pictures: On the Golden Ears Bridge – […]
Our latest column in the Maple Ridge News: Published: October 11, 2012 8:00 PM It’s not often that I bike purely for the enjoyment of it, but last week I went on a long-awaited and short cycling trip on Vancouver Island with my husband. I had heard much about the famous Galloping Goose Trail between […]
By Jeff Nagel – Surrey North Delta Leader More than $280 million in federal gas tax that is supposed to flow to TransLink is sitting unused and Metro Vancouver politicians now want some of it to go to building bike lanes. Since 2005, Ottawa has handed back to TransLink at least half of the 10 […]
Pretty good showing of cyclists Friday, October 5 at Yennadon Elementary School. Just a regular school day, but the Fall weather has been spectacular for biking! Way to go kids… and parents!!
ONE spectacular Sunday in Paris last month, I decided to skip museums and shopping to partake of something even more captivating for an environment reporter: Vélib, arguably the most successful bike-sharing program in the world. In their short lives, Europe’s bike-sharing systems have delivered myriad benefits, notably reducing traffic and its carbon emissions. A number of […]
Haven’t bought your cranberries yet for Thanksgiving? Well, why don’t you join us for possibly our last Discovery Bike Ride of the year, to the Cranberry Festival in Fort Langley, on Sat. Oct. 6. This is the second year we’re doing this ride. We’ll meet up at Memorial Peace Park at 10:00 am. For those […]
Here’s a good article on the Energy Bulletin of the Post Carbon Institute about what creates community in the city of Montreal. The Bixi bikes and the cycling network are part of it! Montreal: City of Bikesby Sven EberleinLast year I visited Montreal to attend the Ecocity World Summit, a biannual gathering of visionaries from […]
GETI Fest 2012 was a lot of fun. According to estimates by the Haney Farmers Market, the number of visitors must have been close to 3000. Every year it gets bigger and better! The purpose of GETI Fest is to raise awareness of the need to transition to a less fossil-fuel dependent economy, and cycling […]
We hope you’ll join us for the 2nd annual GETI Fest, in Memorial Peace Park, on Sat. Sept. 22 (10 a.m. – 3 p.m.). For those of you who don’t know about GETI, it’s an organization through which all individuals and groups in the Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows (Golden Ears) area can work together in a co-ordinated […]
Thanks to Ian McLeod of Fraseropolis.com for guiding our ride today and sharing interesting facts about Hammond, and thanks to Leanne Koehn and James Rowley for the hospitality, the muffins and ice tea, and thank heavens we had a gorgeous sunny day! Here is Ian’s blog post about the ride. Ian gave us a bit […]
