by Bike Courier | Mar 25, 2025 | Advocacy
Embodied energy is a geeky, but extremely important concept in determining the environmental impact (or cost) of any and all products. “Embodied energy is the sum of all the energy required to produce any goods or services…. Embodied energy is an...
by Bike Courier | Mar 18, 2025 | Advocacy
In the future, world citizens will not only sue international energy giants, but may also sue citizens of developed countries for the willful destruction of nature by privileged individuals (that is us and our hypermobility and hyperconsumption)....
by Bike Courier | Mar 15, 2025 | Advocacy
Kentucky could teach kids to read and make our streets safer by using license plates wisely. Instead of L4T858 (which is hard to remember in an emergency) that plate could read: LATTER LATHER LATELY LATINO LATEX LATEST or a million other words and combinations. RED...
by Bike Courier | Mar 14, 2025 | Advocacy
In February an ad hoc citizens’ group met with Public Works Director Jennifer Kern and other Public Works personnel to explore the installation of micro roundabouts in urban intersections. Urban micro roundabouts will: – slow (make safer) traffic –...
by Bike Courier | Aug 29, 2023 | Uncategorized
As climate change devolves into climate chaos, parents today face a set of painful dilemmas. The inclination to shelter and protect our children from psychologically distressing information can result in our children being blindsided, feeling lied to, and growing up...
by Bike Courier | Aug 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
In 1988 NASA scientist James Hansen warned Congress of climate chaos. Today his message is: ‘We are damned fools’. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/19/climate-crisis-james-hansen-scientist-warning
by Bike Courier | Jul 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
Approaching the Bardstown Rd & Eastern Parkway an airhorn (?) sounds just feet away from the bike’s rear tire. A quick glance over the shoulder identifies the source as a big dark SUV. The SUV passes and the cyclist realizes the vehicle belongs to LMPD. The...
by Bike Courier | Jul 29, 2023 | Uncategorized
Three emails of July 8, 19, & 28 to Mayor Greenberg, Deputy Mayors & Council Members July 8 – At the rate at which heat records are falling and other geo measures are escalating, 10 years from today, maybe 2 years from today, no one will be interested in...
by Bike Courier | Apr 12, 2022 | Uncategorized
With the prospect of $10 million expansion of Waterfront Park westward, it may be time to renew the appeal to reopen Norfolk Southern’s K&I bridge to pedestrians, cyclists and wheelchair users. On 1 November 2013 the group working on the appeal ceased...
by Bike Courier | Apr 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
The environmental activist group, which encourages supporters to cause disruption through non-violent civil disobedience, will return to the city (London) Saturday with new tactics it claims will “create the most roadblocks we ever have”.“The government declared a...
