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Cycling

Timo Perälä: Making Politicians Walk the Walk

Jo Helme - January 15, 2021

As President of the Winter Cycling Federation, Timo’s aim is to make cities active all year round. He talks about cycling at -30C, the broken gym culture and making politicians practice what they preach. Timo’s...

Cycling

Angela Azzolino: There’s Better Ways of Doing It Than Bike Lanes

Jo Helme - January 15, 2021

From corporate, to bicycle mechanic, to founder of ‘Get Women Cycling’, Angela Azzolino has experienced New York’s streets as a cyclist from different perspectives. We caught up with her to discuss helmet hair and the...

Cycling

How to Advocate for Cycling – Look to Calgary

Jo Helme - January 18, 2021

Calgary went from less than a 2% cycling modal share, to the ‘Calgary Approach’ being adopted by other cities. Speaking to the campaign group, Bike Calgary, we learned how it happened and what advice...

Cycling

The Cycling Professor: Its More Than a Bicycle, It’s a Counter Movement – and John Lennon Knew It in 1968

Jo Helme - January 18, 2021

Do we need driverless cars, or carless drivers? Why do we talk about congestion, but not systemic traffic violence? How come John Lennon was in bed with a bicycle? We interviewed the Cycling Professor,...

Retrofitting

How to Make Energy Use More Efficient

Karl Dickinson - August 26, 2021

Using fossil fuels emits a lot of carbon dioxide. This enters the atmosphere and traps heat, warming the climate. Unless we curb our energy use, temperatures will rise beyond the 1.5 degree-maximum we’ve set...

Cycling

Enrique Peñalosa: “An Advanced City Is One Where the Rich Take Public Transport”

Jo Helme - April 12, 2021

Bogotá’s former mayor, Enrique Peñalosa, redrew the capital’s cityscape. Surviving two recall elections, he built hundreds of parks, bike tracks, bus lanes and sidewalks. For him, a bus stuck in traffic does not represent inefficiency –...

Walking

Taking Inspiration From Tokyo’s Pedestrian Paradises

Maximilian Prutsch - April 22, 2021

The ‘World Car Free Day’ is an important event to give people an idea of what their city could be like, if we stopped allocating most of the valuable public space to the least...

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