It is exhilarating to have a bike anywhere you want it. It is depressing to see the state of the bikes.

We have to start thinking about housing as a social good instead of a financial instrument.

Bamboo may seem like a questionable material for making bikes, but we've seen our share of great bamboo bikes -- and hey, there's even DIY bamboo bike-building classes out there. Taking advantage

An annual Toronto event is pretty utopian, as two major highways are closed to cars and given over to cyclists.

This gives the "spin cycle" a whole new meaning.

The near-death of one of India's most distinguished scientists has halted work on a major hydroelectric dam in the Himalayas. Professor AD Agarwal, 77, former dean of the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi at Kanpur,

It may not make economic sense to park bikes this way, but it sure is fun to watch.

This chapel looks to nature and the generations-old tradition of Japanese wood joinery for inspiration.

Bike share programs are public transit, and that requires public support.

They actually have a Deputy Minister for Cycling in Hungary's Ministry of Economics and Transport. They are also promoting cycling with this sexy video that Grist calls safe for work if you use headphones. A commenter on osocio translates it:First of

Photo via StringBike The Bike, Unchained A group of designers in Hungary have done away with what has long been a staple of bicycle design, those oily old chains, with their creation, the StringBike. Instead of being propelled forward the traditional

They call it green. I call it too much.

You have to love celebrities on bikes!

Celebrities, and their various efforts to go green, can be a bit of a mixed bag. On the one hand, it's great that high-profile, highly-visible folks are affecting positive change by both reducing their impact on

Bottlenose dolphins have close bonds that last for years based on common interests.

Because cyclists should pay their fair share, right?

Taking responsibility for their own waste, ETSY team members haul biodegradable trash to their local community farm by cargo bike.

Combining low-maintenance air plants with reused sea urchin shells, these unique creations look very much like mysterious jellyfish.

Activists deliver a "No Tar Sands!" message to Sustainable Brands corporate conference via kayak flotilla

Bike-powered devices often feel like hippy gimmicks. Yet for some communities, they offer an important glimpse of more resilient technology.

We have lots of stuff, it's just unevenly distributed.

So far the panels and batteries are only offered in the UK but it might spread to sunnier North American climes.

Did I mention that nobody cares about the environment anymore?

We have lots of waste plastic and not much use for it, so why not use it instead of asphalt or concrete?

It even has moving sidewalks for bikes. This is how you get people out of cars.

The second generation of Paris' bike-sharing fleet will see 20,000 bikes hit the streets next year, and 30% of those will feature an electric drivetrain.

This small 118-square-foot apartment holds a few pleasant, space-saving surprises.

...or does this augur the final breakdown of civilization?

A NYC-based artist and programmer makes music out of pollution; listen to it here.

This Finnish design doesn’t look quite finished but it is ingenious.

If this video of the 3rd annual Brompton World Championships got US folding bike enthusiasts excited, then they'll be delighted that for the first time ever, a national US Brompton championship is to be held in March

The hot young Swedish firm We Are You came third in a competition to design a new bicycling center in Philadelphia. (They must be really young- entry criteria include only those who graduated later than 2007). Its mission: "to promote bicycling in all

One more city joins the bike sharing club, providing its citizens with a great, healthy, and green way to get around.

Philly has more than 2X the number of bike commuters per capita of NYC.

This is very smart marketing, and not a bad looking bike.

I mean, shipping containers are hot. But does this kind of shipping container architecture make sense?

Just what we needed in what was a decarbonizing planet.

In which I argue that bike-friendliness should be measured by how well a town caters to its most practical, regular, and vulnerable of users, not tourists.

It does a lot more than just get you from floor to floor, in this interesting Korean courtyard house.

Belgian architects build a tower in a barn. But my, it uses a lot of lumber.

This is a big problem in old buildings: providing universal access without ruining the look of the building.

The timeline needs some work. But this is a start...

Northern Arizona University student from a range of departments built the charging station piece-by-piece to educate fellow students on the energy used by their gadgets.

A new report calls for international collaboration to fight the crime organizations behind the illegal trade in wood and wildlife.

There is so much in their new strategy that I can't get it all in the title.

This is, in fact, one of the things that e-bikes are really good at. Another dumb move.

Eben Weiss, the Bike Snob, is an unexpected source for this proposal to save the environment.

Also a look at smart phones for boomers and for refugees, and making the Raspberry Pi higher.

trioBike has released the next version of its tri-functional cargo bike, which we first wrote about here. The 2.0 Balanced is an aerodynamic and sleek-looking kid-hauler. And the detachable bike, a Shimano Nexus 7-speed, also looks great when you are out

For those of us who actually live in rustic homes in cold climates, the household items that define the 'hygge' decorating trend are a matter of survival.