For over 20 years, Gil Penalosa of 8 80 Cities has been helping cities around the world to become more livable, people-friendly places. He is very passionate about what he does and he now offers bi-weekly webinars with a variety of interesting guests. They’re all posted on his Youtube Channel, where you can browse through them and check […]
How continuous sidewalks extensively used in the Netherlands improve safety of people walking and cycling at side streets.
A first-person view of the infrastructure from the eyes of a person with mobility issues in the city of Delft in the Netherlands.
A new e-bike rental service in the Parksville Qualicum Beach Region.
When I write for the Maple Ridge News, often my columns are longer than allowed, so sometimes they’re pretty heavily edited. The good thing about a blog is that I can write whatever and however long I want. So here is the original version of my November article: The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) […]
To give you an impression of what cycling in the Netherlands is like, read this blog post from the U.K. blog As Easy as Riding a Bike, and look at the photos of “ordinary” Dutch cycling infrastructure.
Here’s a great article by BBC News Magazine reporter Anna Holligan, with a comparison between cycling in the Netherlands and the U.K.
Wouldn’t it be nice for elderly people who are stuck, day-in-day-out, in a boring old folks home to have a chance to go for a fun ride along the Fraser River? Or a ride on the dikes? I like this story from Copenhagen.
Bixi bikes and gardening are helping to create “community” in Montreal, according to this article in the Energy Bulletin of the Post Carbon Institute.