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What’s Peak Oil Got to Do With It? Go By Bike Episode 44

July 30, 2010

What is Peak Oil and what can we do about it? I had the opportunity recently to listen to a talk and discussion about peak oil and climate change here in our local town . The talk was interesting and a good presentation of the topic, but also interesting was the reactions of people in [...]

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Stop Drilling? or Stop Driving! – Go By Bike Episode 22

May 18, 2010

Environmentalists need to examine if their words and actions go together As the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster in the gulf continues to wreak environmental havoc, I’m sure the reaction from many environmentalists will be loud calls to stop drilling and curtail offshore oil drilling. This may be something we should do, but I wonder how [...]

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Why Electric Cars are NOT the Answer – Go By Bike Episode 14

May 3, 2010

Will electric cars solve our oil dependency problems? There’s a lot of hope and hype about electric cars, with just about every car company jumping on the promised future of these vehicles with a design of their own. But electric cars just don’t solve one fundamental problem of transportation by car. What problem is this? [...]

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Using our cars is bad for us! – Go By Bike Episode 3

April 16, 2010

Give your kids a cleaner, brighter future Welcome to Go By Bike! I started this series to talk about how to ride more and use your car less, including electric bikes, electric kits, cargo bikes, bike safety, and getting motivated to bike. Using your car less reduces your carbon footprint, saves energy, helps the environment, keeps [...]

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Solar at Shakori Hills: does it make sense?

April 19, 2009

We had the pleasure of making it out to the Shakori Hill Festival today to let the kids participate in various events such as the Paperhand Puppet Intervention, and to listen to a bit of good music. The organizers had a booth there, asking for contributions towards a solar electic system that would power the [...]

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