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OK, so it’s an advertisement – but this video, put out by exercise clothing manufacturer Pearl Izumi, is really awesome!
Many of us are accustomed to climbing into our cars every time we leave our houses. It all starts with a mental decision, then baby steps.
In the torrential downpour in Boston yesterday, my dad and I put on our [...]

Taking a cue from Bogotá, Colombia’s wildly popular weekly Ciclovía, both Portland, Oregon and New York City are experimenting with shutting down sections of streets to automobile traffic. In place of polluting cars will be walkers, rollerbladers, cyclists, and dancers taking back their streets!
Portland’s effort, Sunday Parkways, coincided with the recent Towards Carfree Cities conference. [...]

You’ve probably heard that traveling by train, plane, or, for that matter, space shuttle, is statistically safer than commuting by car. Why? The primary culprit isn’t monster trucks, speed demons, or even drunk drivers (not that any of these things are good). According to one web site, www.negligentdriving.com, it’s negligent drivers—people applying [...]

With car sales down across the board, General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner announced that GM will close four truck and SUV plants, limit production of large vehicles, and refocus on manufacturing smaller vehicles.
Wagoner told the AP that the U.S. market shift said the change in the U.S. market to smaller vehicles will probably be [...]