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A new global initiative to save lives, improve health, and reduce air pollution that is both harmful to public health and the climate launched this week. Breathe Cities will help boost clean air projects such as London mayor Sadiq Khan’s forthcoming expansion of the Ultra-Low Emission Zone (ULEZ), The ULEZ has already lowered harmful...

Slinging a hammock and riding a bike are two of life's simple pleasures. Why not combine them? If you have a few metres of space and a spot of sun this summer, what better way of whiling away your leisure time than snoozing, reading a book or simply daydreaming? And even if you don't have the space yourself, a hammock is small and light...

There's a lot to be said for daydreaming. You know how it is: Friday afternoon; two hours until home time; your mind starts to wander. And so it was that one day in 2013 our thoughts turned to flying bicycles. Earlier that year we'd read about how British aeronautical company Parajet had created a flying car using a paramotor wing, so we...

Cargo bikes and trikes are being bought in increasing numbers, not only by businesses who like the idea of a cost-effective congestion beater, but by parents looking for a quick and cheap alternative to the car for the school run. In Denmark many families with two or more kids, have turned to the Christiania. There is a choice between a...

"If you want to kill someone, the best way to do it is in a car because you are highly likely to get away with it. One of the reasons is that people are being killed by cars all the time. We tolerate a level of killing by cars that we don't tolerate in any other area. If as many soldiers were killed in combat every year in UK wars, we would...

Heinz Stucke spent 50 years visiting over 200 countries and territories, covering 648,000km in the process - most of them on a 25kg, 3-speed bicycle loaded with another 40-50kg of luggage. The Netflix documentary 'The man who wanted to see it all' is a series of astute observations, remarkable impressions and even a touch of philosophy from...

In 2015, only one in five people in the UK used a refillable water bottle - a number that's now increased to three in five according to the anti-disposables campaign Refill. It's good news for the environment, but there's still a long way to go. Ten million single-use plastic water bottles are bought every day in the UK, 700,000 of which...

My car needs enough power to accelerate out of trouble Speed limiters have existed for as long as cars themselves, but while legislators are happy to use technology to cap the speed of electric bicycle and e-scooters, despite a very strong relationship between speed and crash risk, cars and motorcycles remain exempt from such restrictions....

How far do you need to be pushed before you take matters into your own hands? For the folk at Crosswalk Collective it was the realisation that Los Angeles officials weren't keeping pedestrians safe. Their own brand of direct action involves installing it's own zebra crossings across the city. Many of the crossings are subsequently taken...

Dismal provision for safe crossings outside schools is a nationwide scandal. Having visited York last week with our inflatable pop-up zebra crossing, we can report that schools in the north find requests for safe crossings are as likely to be ignored as those in the south. Thousands of schools are plagued by dangerous road conditions...