Biking
Summer's here, so travel green for Green Europe on the ground
Going on holiday in this economic climate is impossible for many. But as good old Bertie Einstein said, ‘In a crisis, imagination is more important than knowledge’. cafebabel.com wraps up its second citizen media project of the year, ‘Green Europe on the ground’. The pick of articles from the year encourage you to get on your imaginary bikes through an Italian capital during the day. For the night, you’ll don your telescopes to contemplate the real deal beyond the lights of a Slovenian capital before dancing it all off in a ‘green disco’ in a German capital. We’ll take a serious stop in a Hungarian country to see how the effects of a natural disaster can mobilise people, before taking an organic break in a southern Spanish regional capital. We’ll also have that chat with young Parisians on how they feel about the new political green climate, because environment is essentially inseparable from European politics. Read the ‘best of’ our journalists’ ‘alternative energy’ in a collection of green articles this summer (Image: (cc) annais/ Flickr)
- Read the special edition Summer's here, so travel green for Green Europe on the ground
- Sludge-hit Hungary: Europe’s biggest ecological catastrophe since Chernobyl
- Rome was not built in a day...nor for bikes
- Europe's unique light pollution law: dark skies over Slovenia
- Green dancefloors Berlin: spread the eco-dance germ to Europe
- Organic Seville: too many exports, not enough young workers or local mouths
- Parisian 'eco-geeks': the youngest players in the French presidential elections
Rolling down 120km of bike lane in Seville
Drivers and vehicles in the centre of Seville cannot be parked for longer than 45 minutes, but it wouldn’t bother the southern Spanish city’s cyclists
biking, ecology, seville, traffic, transport, bicing, car industry
'Green Europe': Brussels, eco-friendly city like any other
Anything 'ecological' in Europe seems to have to pass through Brussels, in its role as 'capital' of the EU, such as hosting workshops on global eco-entrepreneurs. In any case the city is sensitive to 'green' issues such as recycling and car-sharing. Second issue of cafebabel.com's 2011 monthly citizen journalism series, 'Green Europe on the ground'
- Read the special edition 'Green Europe': Brussels, eco-friendly city like any other
- Frank Pe, Luc Schuiten: eco-dreams of Brussels' comic book art architecture
- Being green in Brussels: beyond plastic bags
- Environmentalism on wheels: car vs bikes in Brussels
- Global entrepreneurs at Brussels green summit
5 bikes, 40 countries, 3 years: touring the world on two wheels
On 29 August, a group of Frenchmen in their mid-twenties kicked off a 50, 000 kilometre trip from Montpellier, and are somewhere on the Moroccan coast. Why would anyone do that...
Berlin craze: tourists shun sights for ‘Kiez’ experience
The metropolis attracts more visitors than any other German city with almost 18 million overnight stays in 2008. But tourism is no longer about taking in the typical sights: tourists are now taking over ‘Kiez’ (city neighbourhoods) and bikes which, until now, were exclusively secrets for the capital’s residents
biking, prenzlauer berg, berlin wall, tourism, germany, berlin
After JC Decaux’s Vélib’, 6, 000 bicycles for London
Its recent success in the public bicycle market has led the French advertising giant into a race against competitors to secure the multiplying contracts popping up all over Europe
Velib: bicycle + freedom on city streets
The French capital has been enjoying the success of the Vélib’ adventure since summer 2007, and the urban rent-a-bicycle-for-next-to-nothing fever has caught the rest of Europe
biking, netherlands, western eu, france, mulhouse, paris, society
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