I (Dante) came on this tour by the request of Kipchoge to build four bikes equipped with human power generators. Each bike includes a 12volt 6 aH Lithium Phosphate battery, Brunton 12 volt 26 watt fold-up solar panel, Brunton Charge Controller, 12 volt Generator, 58F Capacitor, water resistant housing, cabling (for on-the-fly thumb shift engage), [...]
Category Archive for ‘Green Living’ 
Our Human Powered Sound System
This is a short video we did for a contest called Innovate or Die that promotes human power via the bicycle cranks. We’ll be putting up more details on the system when we have a chance.
Interview On Sirius Radio This Morning
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 [...]
Global Warming Video Contest
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!
Unabridged Grist Interview
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 [...]
I Bet He Got Sore Legs
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 [...]
Car-Free in L.A.
They’re doing it! And teaching the masses.
China Still Likes Bikes
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 the [...]
Real Bike Routes
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 [...]
Boycott Horizon Milk and the Watering Down
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 [...]
