Climate Cities
All Stories
-
![]()
![]()
How women rode the bicycle into the future [SLIDESHOW]
“Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. I stand and rejoice every time […]
-
![]()
![]()
Police apologize to cyclist for all the wrong reasons
Well, this is a first: On Tuesday, New York City-dwelling cyclists who were ticketed for speeding in Central Park got their tickets retracted and personal apology visits from the police. […]
-
![]()
![]()
New York deputy mayor: Bike lanes pretty cool, probably not terrorism
The New York magazine article we wrote about yesterday — the one about how New Yorkers are getting all het up about bike lanes and how they are akin to […]
-
![]()
![]()
Rahm Emanuel could be f**king great for America’s cities
Rahm Emanuel as mayor of Chicago? This is going to be f**king great.Photo: Adam FagenSo can the bull-headed, bare-knuckled, notoriously foul-mouthed Rahm Emanuel help save America’s cities? In May, the […]
-
![]()
![]()
Ewan McGregor makes biking almost disgustingly adorable
The sound you just heard was my ovaries exploding. Ewan McGregor knows the cool way to get around town: On a bike, with an absurdly adorable dog, in a little […]
-
![]()
![]()
New York’s bike lanes are ‘homegrown terrorism,’ say red-faced opponents
Photo: Kyle Gradinger“Share the Road” has one potential fatal flaw: It involves sharing, which a lot of purported adults haven’t really mastered. Matthew Shaer’s exhaustive history of the NYC bike […]
-
![]()
![]()
Get freaked about hydrofracking: now!
Like the sign says.Photo: Not an AlternativeBabydolls, behold the obvious: The situation in Japan is horrendous. Indeed, it trumps anything else that might previously have fallen under the aegis of […]
-
![]()
![]()
Live Twitter chat: Can bicycling save the economy?
Making statements like “bicycling will save the economy” sounds like pure hyperbole, and our bike columnist Elly Blue nearly nixed the idea as too out-there. Then she started looking at […]
-
![]()
![]()
Grading cities on their carbon emissions
The folks at Global Green USA have come up with an easy way to tell how a city is doing on its carbon emissions: give it a grade. That’s the […]
-
![]()
![]()
John Kerry takes infrastructure to the bank
John Kerry is willing to bank on infrastructure building. He and Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (Texas) are introducing a bipartisan bill to create a bank for funding infrastructure projects […]
