If the USA used these on all their roads they would generate 3 X more electricity then currently needed.
Tag Archives | Cars
How UK motorists are reluctant to become greener on the road
According to the Energy Saving Trust, drivers throughout the UK could save £250 per year from being more economical with their fuel.
Black man driving a German whip
“Looks like a dealer drugs n that…”
Guilty of sitting in the road
Audio visual slideshow of the environmental road protest movement.
Vote Bike This Thursday!
Londoners on Bikes today recommended that cyclists give their first preference vote to Green Party candidate Jenny Jones, and their second to Ken Livingstone.
How the Dutch got their cycle paths
Fascinating and brilliant short film. It is all here for us to see and understand and the best bit is the proof is in the pudding. It worked and it works! Here is a simple guide for building better cities that can help us to live better lives.
20 Years of Critical Mass
After twenty years, as this global phenomenon continues to grow, the riders are more determined then ever to congregate in the name of fun, friendship and freedom, spontaneously collaborating to create streets without cars.
Kill the Car! (But share it first)
The car has made us alienated and fat.
Peter Drew Arts
Drew creates awesome, switched on, uncommissioned art for the urban landscape. These works can be found in Berlin, Glasgow, London and Adelaide.
Riders of Rohan Assemble! It is CRITICAL MASS
A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down, but it is not this day! This day we fight!! By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!
Fresh Air Flash Mob Debrief
Yesterday evening a group of us met up with Climate Rush in a London square. After a couple of brief rousing speeches we cycled to one of London’s busiest and most polluted junctions and reclaimed it from the cars. Lying on the floor with the pressure of four lanes of motorized traffic baring down, irate drivers pumping their horns and police taking our photos and removing our bikes it did occur to me that we might be mad.
Flash mob 4 fresh air
Are you tired of breathing in the same toxic fumes every day? If YES join Climate Rush and friends in Soho Square on Wednesday, July 13th 6:30pm – 9:30pm for ROADBLOCK – We’re all gonna die!!! Full event info here.
Why bikes shouldn’t have to follow the rules of the road: Part 2
Little movie by Casey Neistata about a ticket he got for riding his bike not in the NYC bike lane that has now gone viral.
The Solution to Pollution
Air pollution is a problem for other places, for example, Beijing, where all those dirty factories churn out the products we buy… or is it?
A Critical Mass of dissent… on wheels
On the last Friday of every month something strange, spontaneous and spectacular happens on the streets of central London.
Why bikes shouldn’t have to follow the rules of the road
Cyclists are safer to carefully go ahead of traffic and jump reds because this makes them more visible to cars. Making this illegal endangers lives. If it is legal for pedestrians to cross a road anywhere irrespective of lights… why can’t cyclists? We are of comparable size and shape and weight. The cyclist and the pedestrian are actually interchangeable.
