HELP!
HELP! The only two states that allow recreational pot use are playing Call it the Pipe Bowl The new Mayor of New York has made it one of his first priorities to reduce the number ....
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COCOA COffee COnversation Action
COCOA COffee COnversation Action The original colonial Tea Party was a bit of blame-the-victim, racist, black-bag op terrorism, with a spoonful of patriotism, and so is the current one for many of its most passionate adherents. The difference ....
High 5
High 5 Pickers and gatherers of produce, People getting their hands dirty, by pulling roots and breaking stems, filling baskets and boxes, are making about a penny a pound for their work, give or take. When ....
NUTRITION, HEALTH, AND TRANSPORTATION
NUTRITION, HEALTH, AND TRANSPORTATION THE BIG QUESTION; IF YOU ARE DOWN TO YOUR LAST TEN DOLLARS, DO YOU GET FOOD, YOUR MEDICINE OR GAS FOR THE CAR? We need water, air, and the occasional snack, to survive. Clothing ....
Trike-share and the future of electric transport
Trike-share and the future of electric transport Many of the most disturbing events taking place around the world, the Middle East, Ukraine, etc. revolve around the supply of fossil fuels. It is a militarized ....
Evolving Bikes into Future Trikes
Evolving Bikes into Future Trikes While there is almost no image more elegant or romantic than a person simply riding a bike, we are constantly being enticed into embracing something grand, a car, a ....
Hybrid Muscle/Electric-Powered Vehicles are the future
Hybrid Muscle/Electric-Powered Vehicles are the future PUCK magazine, in downtown New York City, gave political satire its most powerful boost. Its momentum has propelled it 150 years into the present day in the form of ....
The Snell Report
The Snell Report https://books.google.hr/books?id=TE3wTD1ckF4C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false In 1974, Bradford Snell, a legislative assistant to Senator Hart of Michigan, and Judiciary Committee staff attorney, delivered an historic report on the partnership between two great American industrial powers, the ....
Steven Stollman
Longtime NYC Advocate for human-scale vehicles, including electric-assist bicycles and pedicabs, as well as a stronger local, creative and public role in determining public-space issues. I imagine streets in the future filled with clean, ....
In Pursuit of the Perfect All-Weather LEV
In Pursuit of the Perfect All-Weather LEV Oct 19, 2014. Times Article Viewed: 49086 Bicycles are great, but they have their shortcomings, especially as the weather turns wet and cold. What's a need to make ....
The Downscaling Conundrum
The Downscaling Conundrum Aug 24, 2014. Times Article Viewed: 9331 For over 150 years of the industrial revolution, bigger has always been better, but in the 21st century figuring out how to downscale will be ....
Transformers: Mastering Our Machines
Transformers: Mastering Our Machines Jul 06, 2014. Times Article Viewed: 8863 We face a choice: we either learn how to master the machines we create and use them to enhance our lives or they will ....
E-Bike Share: Perfect Wave of the Future
E-Bike Share: Perfect Wave of the Future Jun 08, 2014. Times Article Viewed: 8317 Instead of spending hard-earned income on an asset that sits 23 hours out of the day and takes constant 'care and ....
A Glimmer of Hope for E-Bikes in the Empire State
A Glimmer of Hope for E-Bikes in the Empire State Jun 02, 2014. Times Article Viewed: 6804 What a difference a year and a new city administration can make. There is no opposition now as, ....
All Charged-Up and Nowhere to Go
All Charged-Up and Nowhere to Go May 25, 2014. Times Article Viewed: 5726 Both the NY City and NY State legislatures are preparing to vote in the next month on legalizing electric-assist bikes. Would giving ....
WiFi Hotspots and the Sharing Community
WiFi Hotspots and the Sharing Community May 18, 2014. Times Article Viewed: 6856 New York City has an RFP out to create 10,000 WiFi hotspots around the city presenting the community with the choice of ....
A Serious Conversation with Myself
A Serious Conversation with Myself May 11, 2014. Times Article Viewed: 5762 Sometimes I blog to get things off my chest and maybe, get you to think a bit differently about a topic near and ....
Some Thoughts On Slowing the Automobilization of the Planet
Some Thoughts On Slowing the Automobilization of the Planet May 04, 2014. Times Article Viewed: 7600 Could it be that the curious devices depicted in the famed Hammacher Schlemmer catalogs point the way toward slowing, ....
Attaining Vision Zero
Attaining Vision Zero Apr 27, 2014. Times Article Viewed: 4811 If New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio wants to see accident deaths drop to zero in his city, he will have to ensure that there ....
Muscle Power As Fuel For Our Creative Juices
Muscle Power As Fuel For Our Creative Juices Apr 20, 2014. Times Article Viewed: 7492 We've shaped our society around cheap, but dirty and exhaustible energy. In the 21st century, it's time to start thinking ....
A World’s Fair At a Human Scale
A World's Fair At a Human Scale Apr 06, 2014. Times Article Viewed: 5872 An invitation to use the power of the internet and crowd-sourcing to commemorate the 75th and 50th anniversaries of the New ....
A Plan B for New York’s Bikeshare System
A Plan B for New York's Bikeshare System Mar 30, 2014. Times Article Viewed: 6470 Rumors are rampant that New York City's Citibike bicycle share program is struggling financially after one of the worst winters ....
Empathy and a Nickle’s Worth of Change
Empathy and a Nickle's Worth of Change Mar 23, 2014. Times Article Viewed: 5779 When you're down to your last ten dollars, do you buy food, medicine or gas for the car? I want to ....
New York’s De Facto Ban and Real Ones
New York's De Facto Ban and Real Ones Mar 15, 2014. Times Article Viewed: 2003 There is no better way to counteract global warming, change bad societal habits, and to respond to the negative effects ....
Legalize the Future……Please
Legalize the Future......Please Mar 09, 2014. What is taken for granted in most forms of transportation, weather protection, the potential for multiple riders, access to creature comforts and the ability to carry freight, is absent ....
Getting Somewhere Slowly
Getting Somewhere Slowly Mar 02, 2014 25 years ago we put on a show at the Municipal Art Society in NYC called “Going Nowhere Fast”. It covered a full range of transportation modalities and identified ....
Make Bike Not Car
Make Bike Not Car Feb 23, 2014. It appears to me that we are turning into a world of activists, that we are reversing decades of minimum involvement by the masses in the determination of ....
Human Energy and Our Love of Waste
Human Energy and Our Love of Waste Feb 16, 2014 Oddly, when charts are made, measuring the use of energy and its production, the most important form of it, human-power, is ordinarily excluded entirely. Fueled ....
Slowing Down New York City Can Speed Things Up
Slowing Down New York City Can Speed Things Up Ironically, travel across large parts of New York City hasn't gotten any faster than it was in the horse-n-buggy age; and instead of horse manure, we've ....
No Comment
No Comment Jan 26, 2014. I'm not sure what Disqus is, but I know it eats comments. One of the pleasures of writing pieces like this is the responses that it can provoke. Sadly, often ....
Why Conspiracies Are Almost Always True
Why Conspiracies Are Almost Always True 'Conspiracy - a secret plan made by two or more people to do something that is harmful or illegal. : the act of secretly planning to do something that ....
Baby, It’s Cold Outside!
Baby, It's Cold Outside! While much of North America was under the grip of the Polar Vortex, the southern hemisphere was cooking in record high temperatures. Originally published: 12-Jan-2014
Really? Do We Still Need Cars?
Really? Do We Still Need Cars? When it comes to funding various forms of transportation, the game's been rigged in favor of the automobile, with more sustainable modes of transport fighting for crumbs that remain. ....
Why We Are Where We Are
Why We Are Where We Are Every baby is born with the innate instinct to grasp and as adults, one of the hardest things we can do is learn to let go. Originally published: 29-Dec-2013
Rough Justice
Rough Justice Despite outgoing New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's encouragement of cycling in his city, his police department doesn't always view the bicycle in the same benign light. Originally published: 22-Dec-2013
Corporate Collusion: The Snell Report
Corporate Collusion: The Snell Report Two of America's most powerful corporations colluded to wreck the nation's public transportation system to secure their near-monopolistic control over how we move people and products. Now we're paying the ....
Cue the Methane?
Cue the Methane? Oct 13, 2013. Article Viewed 1482 Times The Permian Extinction took 95% of all living species. It is thought to have been caused by the release of a great store of methane from ....
Are Antique Electric Cars the Solution to New York’s Carriage Problem?
Are Antique Electric Cars the Solution to New York's Carriage Problem? There is more to the story of New York City's famed and oft-maligned Central Park horse carriage tours than the animal's welfare. Originally published: ....
You, Me and a World of ELFs
You, Me and a World of ELFs Invented 80 years ago, has the time finally come for the widespread adoption of the very efficient, human-scale Velomobile? If the success of the ELF is any indication, ....
Planning the Next Assault on New York State’s E-Bike Inanity
Planning the Next Assault on New York State's E-Bike Inanity Jul 22, 2013. Article Viewed 6541 Times Now that the NYS legislature has ratified its identity as the lamest State Legislature in the country by ....
When New York City Banned the E-Bike
When New York City Banned the E-Bike May 27, 2013. Article Viewed 6689 Times Banning electric bikes is like banning skim milk. There are innumerable people for whom ordinary bicycles are not adequate to their ....