Eco and I made a little movie about selling the car and replacing it with longbike/tallbike/carshare/stokemonkey/walking/moving close to work for a “what I can do about global warming” contest put on by TreeHugger. Here’s our 2 minute entry with original music by Eco. Vote for me, vote for me!

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 [...]

They’re doing it! And teaching the masses.

You may have heard in recent years of signs that China is giving up its claim to bikingest place on Earth.  Shanghai reportedly started to ban bikes on some roads. Bike advocates everywhere cringe at the thought. Hell, thinking people everywhere cringe at the thought. But all is not lost! Apparently the bigwigs in [...]

Yet another googlemap hijack for higher consciousness: There’s a new web site called bikely that lets you view the chosen bike routes of actual humans (as opposed to the computer generated bike route sites). And, of course, as an actual human, you can add your favorite routes. It’s easy! It’s fun!
I put in a route [...]

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 [...]

If you’ve stuck out your thumb in America recently, you realize people are really freakin scared (or just completely selfish). It’s hard to get a ride, even when you don’t look like a complete freak (not that I’m an expert on not looking like a freak). It’s a bummer that it’s such a hard way [...]

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 [...]

If all you Xtracycle riders called the editor of your local rag to tell them about your patriotic two-wheeled, troops-supporting, car-parked, stuff-hauling, new-world-orderin’ exploits, we’d have at least 15 new cases of 15 minutes of fame like our man Mauricio and it might be enough to attain critical mass. OK, so it wouldn’t be enough [...]