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End of the road for bicycle that was too advanced for production

The team behind the Denny – a radical new interpretation of the urban bicycle – are appealing for a new manufacturer to resurrect the project. After winning the Oregon Manifest Bike Design competition, the battery-assisted bicycle was due to be built in small numbers by Fuji, but it was not to be.  The Denny won a public vote on the…

Drivers four times more likely to die in older cars

Older cars are dramatically over-represented in fatal crashes according to analysis conducted by engineers in Australia and released to coincide with the 4th United Nations’ Global Road Safety Week (8-14 May 2017). The research reveals that older cars built before 2000 represent only 20 per cent of the vehicle fleet, and yet are involved in 33 per cent of fatal crashes.…

Vanmoof launches thief proof electric bicycle

The bicycle manufacturer Vanmoof claims to have made its latest electric bike thief proof. The Electrified S includes a built-in tracking function that allows the bike to be located should it be stolen. So confident is the Dutch company, that it guarantees to replace a bike that’s been pinched if it cannot be traced within two weeks. The high-tech features…

Next week is Walk to School Week

Walk to School Week is an initiative very close to our hearts. The very first Walk to School week was in 1995 and involved five primary schools taking part in our very own Green Transport Week. Since then the event has grown and grown. It has had to; a generation ago, 70% of us walked to school – now it’s less…

Mobile sauna for talks on environmental hot topic

In arctic climates, the sauna has a powerful cultural significance as place for warmth and reflection. It’s the reason the artists Bigert & Bergström have created this egg-shaped version at Luossabacken in Kiruna, Sweden’s northernmost town, to highlight a serious local environmental issue. Kiruna is currently being sacrificed so that a mining company can extract iron ore from beneath the…