Climate Pulse

Photos: Kristin Rule A couple of years ago Kristin Rule, alias 'The Unconventional Cellist' undertook a 20 week music tour, toting her cello on a motorbike with a solar trailer. With a new album recently released, she is soon to be touring again, but this time by bicycle accompanied by a... [continue]

Photo: Christine Lepisto Hey Boss! Where Should We Put All Those Bikes? A couple of photos of a building covered in bicycles started floating around the net a few days ago (I first saw them on Copenhagenize). It's a bike shop in Germany, and when I first saw the pics I thought "Best bike shop... [continue]

Photo: Insider Hobart This post is part of series written by TreeHugger contributors about trading in your car for a bike for trips that are two miles or less in distance. The series is sponsored by the Clif 2-Mile Challenge. I was late, I was late, for a most important date. A first date, and we... [continue]

All images: Saul Maret Over the past half dozen years we've had more folding bikes cross our screens at TreeHugger than a rear bicycle wheel has spokes. And they keep on coming. The latest one is courtesy of Saul Maret, a French designer, currently based in Boston, Massachusetts. He has shipped... [continue]

NYC's bike-share is likely to be similar to other existing programs. The one pictured here is in Taipei. Photo: Flickr, CC Starting with 10,500 Bikes, Then Increasing to 49,000 Biking in New York City has been growing at a good clip in recent years (check out this graph), something that the local... [continue]

Photo: Warren McLaren / inov8 Not that this is a fire that needs any stoking but Australia is yet again debating the relative merits of helmets for cycling. And remember this is the country that back in 1991, became the first to make riding a bike without a helmet illegal. Associate Professor... [continue]

Last week, we reported that a Republican candidate for the Colorado governorship had declared that Denver's bike-sharing program was a threat to our personal freedoms. Since then, Tea Party-backed Dan Maes has faced some scrutiny in the press for his ambiguous statements: Along with threatening our... [continue]

All images courtesy Graham Hill. Graham Hill, founder of TreeHugger.com, is an insatiable tinkerer/designer who strives for elegant design solutions. His latest foray into problem-solving, a collaboration with bike manufacturer Schindelhauer bikes, has resulted in what he calls the ThinBike -- a... [continue]

Image from londoncyclist Today is the big day: London's new bicycle rental system is being launched. Called Barclays Cycle Hire, after the bank which is a corporate sponsor to the tune of £25M, the system is high in Canadian content. Modelled after Montreal's Bixi, the 6,000 bicycles have... [continue]

Storage for 150 bicycles at Bike Park. Photo: Bike Park Whenever we do a story on bike commuting there'll always be a commenter concerned about what happens when they arrive at their workplace. How do they scrub up from a sweaty or rainy ride? Where do they safely and securely store their bike? And... [continue]