The Mexico of my childhood memory (San Miguel de Allende, 1978) is dirty: lots of garbage in the streets, dead animals, smelly creeks. From what I’ve seen on this trip, much has changed. In towns and cities, the streets are clean, free of litter and often swept. Especially in the smaller cities, the streets seem […]

We rode our bikes from the butterfly preserve to Angangeo, past and through hundreds of butterflies. I would just stop and stare at them i was in such amazement. Here is a shot of Chava riding with the butterflies down into the city. It was magical. I would just drift off watching them….

By David Kupfer
The Pleasant Revolution is all about promotion, promotion of adventure, person to person cultural exchanges, bicycle values, freedoms found by biking, bike powered music, backwoods California rock and roll. So many kids and adults were and are inspired by the music and the message and the mission that is impossible to calculate the […]

I’m talking to The Lazy Environmentalist on Sirius Channel 114 (Lime Radio) at 8:10 PST today.
Links I mentioned:
-xtracycle.com
-the Ginger Ninjas myspace page www.myspace.com/gingermyninja
-the Dick Cheney (needs more love) music video
- “Selling the Revolution” the making of Xtracycle movie from 2001
- Worldbike
- Treehugger Video Contest entry: how I personally try […]

I was interviewed by Grist Magazine recently. They edited out much of my thinking about what it means to be a bike-ridin’ activist/environmentalist/concerned human, so I thought I’d post the long version here.

What work do you do? What’s your job title?
I’m lead singer of the Ginger Ninjas, president of Xtracycle Inc, coinstigator of the […]

We met a man called Tim Harvey in Fairbanks a couple years ago. The band was on Alaska tour. Tim was on his way around the world — by human power. A couple Sundays ago when we were on tour in the Pacific Northwest, we passed by Tim again — on the last leg of […]

Organic certification of food gives consumers info that enables us to support things we like and avoid things we don’t. Theoretically. The theory breaks down when producers successfully cheat the certification process and don’t comply with the spirit of the system. Such is the case with “organic” dairy producers who keep their cows in feedlots […]

A new report compares the environmental impact of shipping things in different packaging styles. Turns out that overall weight and volume are generally more important considerations than material choice. The overall winner seems to be lightweight bag, if it’ll hold your stuff.

We’ve been trying to figure out how to ship our WideLoaders for years. Their […]

People have lately been fond of saying that rising gas prices will be good for Xtracycle business. We did in fact have a woman call last year to say she was on a Peak Oil site and it recommended buying a bike so she was buying a bike. Peak Oil and rising gas prices aren’t […]

As stoked as I was to do the Grist Interview, I was a little bummed to be heavily edited. Not because my responses didn’t need any choppin’, but because they cut out pretty much all of my philosophy on career choice, hate, blame, fear, and optimism, which I thought was the meat of my interview. […]