Four health-conscious cities putting pedestrians first

To save time: 1) Paris, France, 2) Bogotá, Colombia, 3) Milan, Italy, and 4) San Francisco, US. I am posting this because it’s generally a good idea for cities to put pedestrians and cyclists first. What all these cities have in common is de-emphasizing one-person-per-car vehicles and prioritizing other forms of transport: bikes, buses, subways, […]

car no more

“The car as we know it is fast becoming extinct; it is a relic of a former age. Sitting in a traffic jam in a ton of metal that belches pollution and costs a fortune will surely be seen by future generations as not just stupid, but criminal.” “Ride sharing apps, car sharing, e-bikes and […]

what about the bikes? COP26 Blah blah blah

You can fight climate change. Today. Right now. And we don’t need COP26 to do it. Don’t wait for the world leaders to lead the charge. Don’t wait for car or oil companies to do it. But how can one person save the environment? What can we do about such a massive issue as climate […]

Traffic Wars: LDN

“by reducing the amount of road space for cars, people will find other ways to make short journeys. (In London, almost half of car journeys are less than 2 miles.) That means more walking and cycling, which ultimately means less pollution, less congestion, quieter, safer streets and healthier citizens.” Sounds good to me. Traffic wars: […]

Clean air, water, soil & biological diversity: David Suzuki

David Suzuki on why climate change is a bigger threat than COVID-19 “Clean air is a gift from nature that we have a responsibility to protect for all future generations and for the rest of the web of life.” David Suzuki: Reflections from an elder in isolation “If we could take a different path, away […]

Protecting Wildlife: Jane Goodall

“All over the world we’ve been destroying the places where animals live in order to get materials to build our homes, our cities and to make our own lives more comfortable.” One year ago, Jane Goodall spoke on Covid-19. We should listen and end the nightmare.

The Wurst is Over – Germans carnivores no more

Around 42% of those questioned said they were deliberately reducing their consumption of meat in some form, by keeping to a diet that was either vegetarian, vegan, pescatarian or “flexitarian”, meaning centred around plant food with the occasional piece of meat on the side. The wurst is over: why Germany now loves to go vegetarian […]

Winter + pandemic = Think like a Norwegian

Winter is coming… and the aim is not to “sugar-coat the situation or to deny the difficulties that we will face; we can’t hide from the shadow cast by the pandemic, any more than the citizens of Tromsø can pretend that the sun is still rising. By recognising our own capacity to control our responses […]

‘A new normal’: Britain’s cities (finally?) take up cycling

Move over, cars. Bikes are taking over the road space. According to Will Norman, “The only way London is going to operate in terms of our capacity on our roads and capacity on our public transport is to move wherever possible to cycling and walking,” said Norman. “It is good for our health, […]

The mountain climbers showing diabetes doesn’t have to be an uphill struggle

…but sometimes it is an uphill struggle. And that’s OK. You don’t have to climb mountains. But hey, why not? Type one diabetes is… an autoimmune condition where the body does not produce insulin … so it has to be injected through the skin. It cannot be prevented. It cannot be prevented. It can […]