Sting - Police en VelibUploaded by CaroandstarsBack in 2007 The Police - feat. Sting, Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers - were inducted into the Order of Arts and Letters. The French culture ministr...

This essay by André Gorz, the French philosopher who pioneered ideas of political ecology, was first published in 1973 in Le Sauvage. Much of it is still applicable today and well worth a read.The So...

Brilliantly simple and effective video about the societal costs of automobile use. Filled with nuggets of wisdom, effectively communicated. Love the bit about how cars are like gasses - it doesn't mat...

Now we like our coffee and, as you may have sussed, we like our bikes. Any combination of pedals and java is a match made in heaven.One of our readers brought The Trade Cycle to our attention. This r...

So. I've returned home from a lovely conference in Brno. It's Czech Republic's second largest city and capital of Moravia. Wonderful wine district, too. The Danish embassy invited me to speak at a con...

Years ago I read an article in a design magazine about new bike designs. I saw a prototype for a shopping bike with up to 20 litres of space in the built in basket. The bike was built, not just a draw...

Between 200 and 500 people in Denmark die every year because of the noise generated by traffic.A recent Swedish study of 30,000 people in the province of Skåne has confirmed what many other studies ha...

Cities are living organisms with their own arteries and blood vessels. But we have been ignoring their health by clogging those blond vessels as a result of bad recipes. How have we been doing so? Her...

Our reader Rachel took this shot in Adelaide, Australia and fired it off to us. Thanks so much for that, Rachel. I quite like it. It reminded me of something completed unrelated. There is an old Danis...