EMBARQ – The WRI Center for Sustainable Transport – is gathering stories to share along with its city profiles. Here’s an example of a story about commuting from a local shoe-shiner who lives in Mexico City: We are currently in need of anecdotes about day-to-day transportation and mobility for XI’AN and SHANGHAI. Do you have [...]
Hippie engineers in Portland, Ore. have found a way to design “affordable, locally-produced, handcrafted bamboo bicycle frames.” Here’s a story (and a video) from asap: “A bicycle built from bamboo: Now you can use grass to mow people down“ By Aaron Clark July 8, 2007 Designers Liakos Ariston and Jacob Prinz started Daedalus Custom Bamboo [...]