Love Bikes and Food? Then Check Out “The Culinary Cyclist!”
Love bicycles and eating well? Anna Brones has a cookbook for you. Classy meals to fuel your ride without breaking the bank. The rules for living well, if you can call them that, are simple and a pleasure to follow. Eat local and mostly plants. Ride your bike, even on…
Cambodia's 2 Wheels 4 School: Art for Bikes!
Now that you’ve thought about how you are going to improve your own life in 2011, what about those that have so much less than most of us? In Cambodia, schools are few and far-between. One of the biggest impediments to children making their way to class is distance. And…
Green in Paris
So I think I have used up my allotment of fossil fuels for at least the remainder of this year, or more likely the next decade. Why? My husband surprised me with a birthday trip to Paris last weekend. Americans have a love/hate relationship with the French. So of course…
Bike to Work Week 2008!
Grab your bike out of the garage because May is national Bike Month and Bike to Work Day 2008 is on May 15 in the Bay area! If you sign up to pledge that you’ll ride your bike to work on this day, you’ll be entered to win a new…
Eco Chick News Tweets!
Tweet This! How The Media Abandoned the Environment, at new techie-with-a-heart-of-green EcoTechDaily. Check Chris Baskind’s op/ed on the lack of environmental coverage in mainstream media: No, you’re not imagining things. With U.S. gasoline prices edging toward $4.00 a gallon; oil prices at an all-time high, demand for materials such as…
Be a Cycle Hottie!
Keeping warm in colder weather without looking like a North Face refugee We all know riding your bike instead of driving is not only eco-friendly, but good for our butts and legs (and hearts!) too! But to really make a dent in how many global warming gases you produce, you…
Eco Luxury Gift Ideas (and Bikes!) in Vogue
I was thrilled to see some seriously fun totally over-the-top delicious green stuff featured in Vogue’s December issue (it’s the one with the impossibly gorgeous Penelope Cruz, above, on the cover). First up, there’s “Season’s Greenings” by William Norwich, who talks to three fabulous greenies. Sheherazade Goldsmith, author of A…
The Car-free Life in Paris
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the trend toward building entire subdivisions as car-free communities here in Germany; though these neighborhoods eschew cars and roads for bikes and courtyards, they also offer a bit of storage space to house the bikes (either as covered garages or, in the single-family…
Green Living in Minnesota
Guest-Blogger Tami Molitor sent this report from Minnesota’s Living Green Expo. I think it’s fantastic to hear about all the green stuff happening in places other than the East and West Coasts, and there’s plenty of it. All Americans need to be involved in building a sustainable world, because pretty…
Eco Travelling
There has been plenty of discussion surrounding travelling and it’s impact on the environment- mainly about how bad air travel is for global warming. Some people are suggesting that to be a real environmentalists, we should all cut down on our travelling, working closer to home (sensible), getting our food…
