When Vancouver’s former Mayor Gregor Robertson came up with the campaign slogan of creating the greenest city who knew it would be his most popular focus area. Robertson, Vancouver’s longest-serving mayor left office after 10 years in 2018. He’s moved on, but we look back at his idea of creating the Greenest City in the World.
Jim Sandercock was coerced into bicycle commuting by a colleague who moved into the neighbourhood and said “Hey why don’t we cycle to work?” Here’s the thing – He loves it! After doing tons of research Jim bought an electric bike and became the poster boy for the E-Bike Revolution. It turns out e-bikers ride further, faster and turn to their bikes as transportation much more often than regular cyclists.
An e-bike might be just the thing to get you jazzed about commuting on a bicycle. Mehanaz Yakub just wrote the ultimate guide for Electric Autonomy Canada. We get the low-down on how e-bikes can help you go further, faster and have fun doing it.
E-bikes are selling like hotcakes. We go for a spin with Leon Milner to learn why he ditched his car to ride an e-bike in the most northerly big city in North America.
The county of Osnabrück in northern Germany produces 80 per cent its electricity from renewable sources, smashing national goals that call for 60 per cent by 2050. We look at one county’s response to the challenge of the national goals of Energiewende (energy transition) in Germany.
David Dodge gets out of his comfort zone and jumps on a bike in the middle of an Edmonton winter. He learns about what kind of gear you need and how to stay warm for this fun, energy efficient mode of transportation.
The electric bike might be the single best urban transportation option out there. It’s super green, gets you outside, has really low emissions and can get you up that big hill without breaking a sweat.
