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Climate action rally in Victoria part of international move towards “post-carbon future”

September 26, 2011

Three hundred people joined a rally in downtown Victoria on Saturday, which was part of International Climate Action Day. Speakers included climate scientist and Nobel laureate Dr. Andrew Weaver (who I first interviewed 12 years ago for an article published in Nature Canada), environmental campaigners, and politicians from the New Democrats and the Green Party. […]

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Film review: Sprawling from Grace, Driven to Madness

September 20, 2011

“The euro crisis is part of a larger crisis. We’re at an end-game for the industrial age based on fossil fuels. Every time this global economy based on fossil fuels grows, prices go up, purchasing power goes down and the economy will collapse.” ~Jeremy Rifkin A serendipitous series of events led me to the feature […]

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Sustainable transportation key to successful cities

September 12, 2011

Los Angeles Smog Photo: Massimo Catarinella) Beginning today, I’ll be following up on the pledge I made last week in a vlog post, to revisit the topic of sustainable transportation and urban planning. Economists like Jeff Rubin predict cities that neglect investment in sustainable public transportation risk foundering in a world ruled by rising fossil […]

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Brooks saddles: happily hidebound

September 8, 2011

Brooks Saddles grew up with the Golden Age of Cycling. They are still built as they were from the beginning. Here’s a fascinating film that shows how.

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This day brought to you by the love of labour

September 5, 2011

In the latter part of the 19th century, the bicycle boom was the equivalent of the “dot-com” bubble of the 1990s. Potemkin factories sprang up, manufacturing nothing but the promise of humungous returns on investment. Plants that did produce bicycles reflected the labour standards of the day […]

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VeloWebLog vlogs about blogging

September 1, 2011

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmIPBXGAnwM[/youtube] Note video is 720p HD I recently read a blogging newsletter article challenging bloggers to become “vloggers.” The idea terrified me. As regular visitors will know, VeloWeb has videos in a few of the VeloGarage tutorials and I’ve included a few in posts—my own and others I feel are noteworthy—but nothing quite as personal […]

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