This morning I attended an exciting meeting at my children’s elementary school put on by the City of Austin’s Safe Routes to School program. We have been chosen as one of 6 campuses to receive support from the program designed to encourage parents to skip being a juvenile’s chauffeur and let kids do what they [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Mikael ColVille-Andersen’
Friday Film Fun: Selling cycling as part of the good life with Mikael Colville Andersen
ATTENTION BICYCLE ADVOCATES: Watch this video set before you do any more work As I have mentioned before, for all the good work that bicycle advocacy does it has some problems as well. As one advocate put it, “we often show more interest in the facility or the bike than people.” The people promoting cycling [...]
More thoughts on how we sell cycling to the masses
Pictures of highway flyovers and commuting to work doesn’t sell cars and it won’t sell bikes either As our city and our country tries to move away from the oil dependent lifestyle of the last 65 years, many efforts are being made to encourage every day people to choose cycling over driving. Some small progress [...]
Wikileaks Exclusive: World changing invention kept under wraps by governments/corporate interests
I fear for the safety of Copenhagenize author Mikael Colville-Andersen who took great risks to bring us this shocking video. Many Bothans died to bring you this information. Pass it on and then watch your back!
Effectiveness of helmets and the culture of fear
Last weeks, Copenhagenize author Mikael Colville-Andersen gave a brilliant speech at the TEDx Copenhagen conference about the effect our culture of fear has on reducing bicycle use. He takes on several assumptions about the protective quality of helmets and our curious exemption of automobiles, the leading cause of accidental death in the Western world, from [...]
Yet more great new bike infrastructure ideas from Copenhagen
Inspiration for the Copenhagenization the rest of the world With the Climate Change Conference, Copenhagen remains very much in the news especially on the bike front. As a city with a dominate car culture until the 1970s, Copenhagen pulled back from the gasoline induced sprawl most of the Western world embraced and now has 37% [...]
Friday Film Fun: Interview with Mikael Colville-Andersen from Copenhagen Cycle Chic & Copenhagenize
With all the discussions, designing, and arguments over bicycle boulevards, it can be hard to see the forest from the trees. The details can often trip us up in our overall goal: to make the bicycle a substantial part of our transportation mix and a natural choice for a growing number of citizens. Since the [...]
