Latest Posts From Ridge Meadows

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 […]

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 […]

Good news! The Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows Bicycle Advisory Committee recommends Council to support a resolution from the Velo Village Conference on rural cycling (Salt Spring Island, 21-23 June, 2012) to the Union of British Columbia Municipalities for provincial funding for cycling infrastructure. See announcement in Council this Week. The text of the Velo Village resolution can be […]

The wife says I really must spread the word about this glorious innovation – the use of the auto bike rack as a repair stand….

Transport in cities Vive la révolution A cycling renaissance is taking place in America Sep 8th 2012 | CHICAGO | from the print edition MORE and more Americans are taking to the road on two wheels. Between 1977 and 2009 the total number of annual bike trips more than tripled, while the bike’s share of all trips […]

By Dr. Jeff Masters Published: 8:53 PM GMT on September 06, 2012 Extraordinary melting of sea ice in the Arctic this summer has shattered the all-time low sea ice extent record set in September 2007, and sea ice continues to decline far below what has ever been observed. The new sea ice record was set on […]