Have A Goadded this to City 2.0Home Ownership Minnesota will pay homeowners to make their lawns bee-friendlyMother Nature Network - Mary Jo DiLonardo Homeowners in Minnesota can benefit financially if they forgo the grass and instead grow a lawn for bees. State lawmakers have approved a new spending …
Have A Goadded this to Mind ShiftUnited Nations In 'climate apartheid', rich will save themselves while poor suffer: U.N. reportReuters - Tom MilesGENEVA (Reuters) - The world is on course for “climate apartheid”, where the rich buy their way out of the worst effects of global warming while the poor bear the brunt, a U.N. human rights report said
Have A Goadded this to City 2.0Tokyo Tokyo may have found the solution to soaring housing costsVox - Timothy B. LeeSan Francisco and other large American cities are facing a massive housing affordability problem, with rents spiraling beyond the reach of ordinary people. A fascinating article from the Financial Times
Have A Goadded this to Design ThinkingPlay buttonDesign Thinking The Amazing Psychology of Japanese Train StationsCityLab - Allan RicharzThe nation’s famed mastery of rail travel has been aided by some subtle behavioral tricks. It is a scene that plays out each weekday morning across Tokyo. Suit-clad office workers, gaggles of schoolchildren,
Have A Goadded this to Electric MicromobilityUniversity College London Why the soft machine will dominate urban transport | Financial TimesFinancial Times - Robert WrightIt is the technology that is changing the face of the school drop-off. At many London primary schools, alongside the children arriving in cars, on bikes and by scooter, a growing number are arriving strapped
Have A Goadded this to Electric MicromobilityCommuting Unburden yourself from one of America's biggest financial stressors: carstransitscreen.com - Natalie Runnerstrom How much do you think cars cost annually? You can improve your commute if you turn to some alternatives that are offered by your city or employer. How …
Have A Goadded this to City 2.0Santa Monica Sustainability czar leaves Santa Monica greener than he found itsmdp.com - Madeleine Pauker The man who made Santa Monica a leader in sustainability and helped the city prepare for climate change is retiring July 1. Dean Kubani, the city’s …
Have A Goadded this to Electric MicromobilityAcadia National Park E-Bikes, Growing in Popularity, Befuddle RegulatorsU.S. News & World Report - Associated Press BAR HARBOR, Maine (AP) — Gordon Goodwin and his wife are rediscovering their passion for bicycling in their senior years thanks to new …
Have A Goadded this to Mind ShiftLong-form Journalism The new left economics: how a network of thinkers is transforming capitalismThe Guardian - Andy BeckettFor almost half a century, something vital has been missing from leftwing politics in western countries. Since the 70s, the left has changed how many people think about prejudice, personal identity and
Have A Goadded this to Electric MicromobilityBosch Bosch unveils new Smartphone Hub for electric bicycles, days after 2020 motor launchElectrek - Micah TollIt seems everything is getting more connected these days. Nothing is spared from the Internet of Things wave sweeping consumer electronics – not even your electric bicycle. At least not since moments when
Have A Goadded this to Mind ShiftPlay buttonApollo Missions The dramatic scene of Apollo 13’s return to Earth that you won’t see in the Tom Hanks movieFast Company - Charles FishmanApollo 13 may have been the “Uh, Houston, we’ve had a problem” mission, but a little-known group of Canadians helped save the day in the last moments of the flight. This is the 25th in an exclusive series
Have A Goadded this to Mind ShiftScience Philosophers Debate New ‘Sonic Black Hole’ DiscoveryQuanta Magazine - Natalie Wolchover Opinions differ about what recent measurements of a sound-trapping fluid reveal about light-trapping black holes. In the decades since Hawking …
Have A Goadded this to Electric MicromobilityPosters ‘I think therefore I cycle’: 50 years of Dutch anti-car posters – in picturesThe GuardianWe rounded up half a century of protest posters and stickers from campaigns which helped Amsterdam become the ‘cycle capital of the world’ Bike City Amsterdam by Fred Feddes and Marjolein de Lange is by
Have A Goadded this to Electric MicromobilityTechnology Electric trikes are the new scootersThe Verge - Andrew J. HawkinsHad your fill of all those dockless electric bikes and scooters littering the streets of cities across America? Hankering for something new, something different, maybe even something that looks sillier
Have A Goadded this to City 2.0 Rising to the Challenge of the Climate Crisis – Alta Planning + Designaltaplanning.com - Alta Planning + Design We all know that access to safe, comfortable, and convenient active transportation options is good for the environment. Every time a driving trip is …
Have A Goadded this to Mind ShiftBernie Sanders Bernie Sanders Unveils Sweeping Bill To Cancel All Student DebtHuffPost - Amanda Terkel and Gavrielle JacobovitzThe new proposal from the 2020 presidential candidate would get rid of all the existing student loan debt in the country. WASHINGTON ― Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who is running for the Democratic presidential
Have A Goadded this to Electric MicromobilityDublin Kids who cycle or walk to school ‘learn better’, Dublin event toldirishtimes.com - Catherine Cleary Dutch cycling expert measured air pollution in Dublin at three times Utrecht level A study of thousands of children in Denmark found that those …
Have A Goadded this to Electric MicromobilityTransit 13 Big Ideas to Improve Transportation in Your CityPOLITICO - By EMILY GOLDBERGIf you could do anything to improve transportation in your city, what would it be? Here are a few ideas you gave us, selected from 250 reader submissions. Cities across the country are coming up with solutions
Have A Goadded this to City 2.0Bees What Cities Can Do to Help Birds and Bees SurviveCityLab - Ariel Aberg-RigerPollinators—the wildlife that shuffle pollen between flowers—are being decimated. But they may still thrive with enough help from urban humans. Editor’s note: For National Pollinator Week, visual storyteller
Have A Goadded this to Electric Micromobility Exozox lets you tow two bikes – behind a bikenewatlas.com - Ben Coxworth If you run a bicycle-share co-op that extolls the virtues of a car-free lifestyle, then you might feel like a bit of a hypocrite on the odd occasion …
Have A Goadded this to Electric MicromobilityThe City BREAKING: Quick-Build Policy Approvedsfbike.org Today, we celebrate the approval of a game-changing policy to amend the City’s transportation code, allowing San Francisco to build life-saving …
Have A Goadded this to City 2.0Innovation Milan is embarking on a bold plan to plant 3 million treesFast Company - Melissa Locker“It’s a good, common sense campaign,” Mayor Giuseppe Sala says of his plan to plant trees around the city. Soon, there will be more trees than people in the city of Milan. Mayor Giuseppe “Beppe” Sala embarked
Have A Goadded this to Electric MicromobilityUK News What £1.4bn buys: 1,800 miles of cycle lanes or one big roundaboutThe Guardian - Helen Pidd North of England editorAlmost exactly a year ago, Chris Boardman – the Olympic champion turned walking and cycling commissioner – unveiled a bold vision: Greater Manchester was to turn itself into a Dutch-style cycling paradise
Have A Goadded this to City 2.0 Here is Sidewalk Labs’s big plan for TorontoCurbed - Alissa WalkerSidewalk Labs has delivered its $1.3 billion plan to redevelop 12 acres of Toronto’s industrial waterfront—along with a much bigger vision to create a massive urban-scale laboratory to prototype solutions
Have A Goadded this to City 2.0Transit 4 Major Reasons Shared Electric Scooters Will Transform Our CitiesForbes - John FrazerI write about the mobility economy and business in blockchain. Shared scooters are paid for, monitored and managed with the ubiquitous smartphone. Consider what it would mean to remove cars from the road
Have A Goadded this to Electric MicromobilityScooters With The Help Of Regulators, Micromobility Will Be Poised For A Massive Surge In AdoptionForbes - John FrazerI write about the mobility economy and business in blockchain. The micromobility revolution starts with the humble electric scooter -- and regulation. The micromobility market is in flux. Rapid changes
Have A Goadded this to Electric MicromobilityElectric Motorcycles This beautifully retro electric motorcycle is headed to market next yearElectrek - Micah TollRegent Motorcycles is preparing their retro-styled Regent NO. 1 electric motorcycle for production after showing off the production prototype recently. The company is aiming for a May 2020 release of eye-catching
Have A Goadded this to Electric MicromobilityBicycle Commuting Forget bike lanes, we need Protected Mobility Lanestreehugger.com - Lloyd Alter The number of people using alternative mobility devices is exploding, and they will be demanding safe routes. Bike Newton doesn’t want bike lanes. We …
Have A Goadded this to Electric MicromobilityFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Why are cyclists the happiest commuters? Health, pleasure and the e-bikesciencedirect.com This paper explores the reasons why cyclists are the happiest commuters. Cyclists are consistently shown to have the highest levels of satisfaction …
Have A Goadded this to City 2.0Belgium These are the 5 most exciting cycling projects in the worldweforum.org - Johnny Wood Have you ever cycled through a lake or ridden a bike through tree tops 10 metres above the ground? For most cyclists, the answer is ‘no’, but that …
