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Category Archives: Green Living
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 … Continue reading
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Hitchhiking Vetting Scheme
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Green Living, Stuff
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Do Rising Gas Prices Increase Cycling?
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycles, Enviro, Green Living
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15 15 minutes is 225 minutes
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycles, Green Living
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Google Maps for Bikes
Wouldn’t it be cool if your Google Map directions told you the best way for bikes to go? Some folks in Portland at a startup called bycycle.org are working on just such a gizmo, and have rolled it out in … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycles, Green Living
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Sell Your Used Bike
I just got an email about the expanding business of this used-bike-buying company. They’ll buy your used bike, but also buy from dealers who accept bikes on trade-ins. No word on how they sell them, though ebay is a good … Continue reading
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Around World w/o Fossil Fuels
Tim Harvey set off by Xtracycle from Vancouver Canada a couple years ago. The Ginger Ninjas rendesvoused with him and his teammate Colin in Fairbanks AK. Since then, Tim rode, slogged, and rowed to Moscow and across some oceans and … Continue reading
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Surely You Have Some Extra Towels
Have you ever thought that your excess homestuff would be not just needed, but URGENTLY NEEDED by someone just a UPS jaunt away? Spring is nearly upon us; no time like the present to begin the year’s decumulatory gesturing. Now … Continue reading
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Travelling Bike Circus, by Bike
These people ride clunky bikes all around Europe and provide a mobile circus. I like bike circuses that travel in buses, but I like this more.
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X in the Machine
Visiting my mom on the sixth floor. Xtracycle fits just fine in her teeny elevator. This is a long longbike, too, an Electra Townie that’s about 10″ longer than a regular x.[photopress:XinElevator.jpg,full,pp_empty]
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