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North Carolina companies are getting behind transportation alternatives in a big way

Photo by Hjem. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0. The shift continues. A lot of North Carolina business are trying to find ways to help employees reduce some of the sting of high gas prices by encouraging all sorts of transportation alternatives and giving non-traditional bonuses. The News & Observer newspaper collected a lot of the efforts into one story, and the list is pretty amazing. As we noted the other day, a four-day workweek is becoming more common across the country, but the options in the North Carolina Triangle area ... Read more →

Big Ideas, season 2 preview: Transport Sebastian Blanco

The Sundance Channel's Big Ideas For A Small Planet is back. The eco-solutions show tidily takes on an issue - like, say Fuel or Drive in episodes from last year's season - and finds three "Big ...

Where's Gilbert biking? Across America to save us money on gas Sebastian Blanco

Gilbert Tang is worried. In just over two months, he plans on flying to New York from Los Angeles just in order to get on a bike and make the return journey. The idea is to draw attention to the fact ...

Video: Brangelina and the kids riding bikes Lascelles Linton

Super couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were caught bike riding through their home town of New Orleans recently. Brangelina also had the kids Maddox and Zahara in tow as you can see in the video ...

Bike trends: chainless, brake less, retrodirect, illegal bike positions Lascelles Linton

Want to know the hottest trends in bikes? Well, you have come to the right place. The picture above is Dekra's "chainless" bike which replaces your standard noisy, greasy chain with a totally self ...

HAWK, a crosswalk button that actually works 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/design/A_cross_walk_button_that_actually_works'; Ever been to a crosswalk, press the button that's suppose to make the light change faster multiple times, only to wait a long time for the signal to change anyway? Pressing the button should decrease the time it takes ...

$612 million to walk or bike to school 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

And you'd think walking would be free. Thanks to years of poor planning and an increasingly lazy (sorry, "busy") population, the U.S. federal government, through the Department of Transportation, is spending $612 million for a program called Safe Routes to School in about 20 states. This program ...

The Ergo Bike Premium 8i lets you race other bikers using the web 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

There is absolutely no good reason for me to get an Ergo Bike Premium 8i. It would be just too embarrassing! I am not nearly good enough a rider to consider challenging anybody with any real skill. I like to ride for fun, though. If you consider riding a stationary bike too boring, but need or want ...

Bicing makes biking popular in Barcelona with 30,000 users in 2 months 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Following in the footsteps of cities like Lyon and Paris in France, Vienna in Austria and others, Barcelona in Spain has started offering bicycles (the human powered kind... with pedals) to people who need to get around the city. Again, just like in Lyon and Paris, the system has been extremely ...

Trip around Europe pure-green style 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Want to tour around the European countryside without inflicting any form of petroleum products (i.e., car, bus, train, subway) into the atmosphere? How about biking? Neil Woodburn of sibling blog gadling found an article detailing such a mode of touring. From physical fitness, starting points, ...


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