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Food Delivery by Bike for Portland’s Hungry

Food Delivery by Bike for Portland’s Hungry

Cargo Bikes + Food for the Hungry + Portland = B-Shares. I met the guy in this video and we had a long chat about all things bikes when I was in Portland this summer. Looks like his company, B-line,…

By Zach | December 7, 2010 | Food & Water, Transportation | No Comments |
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Deadly E.coli Outbreak Reaches Babies in UK Hospitals

Looks like the UK is getting hit with a pretty bad E.coli outbreak. “A potentially lethal strain of the E.coli bacteria has been discovered on the skin of 13 newborns in a premature baby unit at a London hospital,” Animal…

By Zach | December 6, 2010 | Food & Water, Health | 1 Comment |
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West Oakland Urban Agriculture Gets $4-Million Boost

A leading urban-farming and food-justice organization in Oakland, City Slicker Farms, recently got awarded $4 million from the State of California to buy land for urban farming and a new park. With this money, City Slicker is going to purchase…

By Zach | December 6, 2010 | City Planning, Food & Water | No Comments |
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Biotechnology Industry Spends Over Half a Billion Pushing GMOs

How much is food safety worth to U.S. lawmakers? The agricultural biotech industry has spent over half a billion dollars ($572 million) in the last 10 years on Congressional lobbying and campaign contributions pushing controversial projects like genetically modified (GM),…

By Zach | December 3, 2010 | Food & Water, GMO | 4 Comments |
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Bike Theft and Vandalism Not an Issue For U.S. Bike-Sharing Programs

Unlike the Vélib bike-sharing program in Paris, the largest in the world, which has had a bit of a problem with bike theft and vandalism, it seems that this is an issue of little or no concern for U.S. bike-sharing…

By Zach | December 3, 2010 | City Planning, Transportation | No Comments |
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Bicycling Boom in North America

Bicycling in Washington, D.C., Minneapolis, Chicago, San Francisco, and many other big North American cities has increased a few times over (or more) in the past couple of decades. And with more people cycling, more people get the urge to…

By Zach | December 2, 2010 | Transportation | 2 Comments |
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Bicycle-Friendly University Award System

The League of American Bicyclists has had a Bicycle Friendly Community program going for years, as well as newer Bicycle Friendly Business and Bicycle Friendly State programs. Now, the League is adding one more, a Bicycle Friendly University (BFU) program.…

By Zach | December 1, 2010 | City Planning, Transportation | 1 Comment |
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Latin American Green City Index Unveiled

The Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU) of the news magazine The Economist and leading engineering company Siemens just released the Latin American Green City Index [PDF], an index measuring the sustainability of 17 key Latin American cities. Believe it or not, Latin America is…

By Zach | November 30, 2010 | City Planning, Climate Change, Transportation | 6 Comments |
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Green Makeover of Brooklyn-Queens Expressway

The proposals are in after Monday’s final public meeting to decide the future of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway trench which severs the Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, and Columbia Street Waterfront neighborhoods of Brooklyn. Residents spoke up and prioritized their wishes for a…

By Zach | November 29, 2010 | City Planning, Transportation | No Comments |
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Children in the Fields [VIDEO]

Children in the Fields [VIDEO]

I recently ran across a good video on exactly what the title implies: children working in agriculture in the U.S. Talk about an under-acknowledged issue of great concern! The statements of the kids and documentation of child farmworkers in the video are chilling.

By Zach | November 29, 2010 | Farming | No Comments |
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