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2Wheel Fetish
Whimsical, well-written journal for people who love bicycles, cities, and life.

Adbusters
Tired of their lies? Find out how to stand up to them at Adbusters.

Austral Bike Book
Taiwan-based bicycle industry newsletter reporting on the economics, the politics, and the personalities of the industrial infrastructure that makes most of the world's bicycles. Includes some advocacy news.

Bicycle News Agency
News of European bicycle culture, on the streets and in the town halls.

The Bicycle Forest
Small but quirky Canadian site featuring advocacy, local rentals, a design-your-own-frame page, and a wonderfully bizarre reader-written bike tale.

Bicycle Kitchen
Bicycle culture in LA is loud 'n' proud in this messenger/trackie/commuter co-op...fun site and useful too!

Bike Reader
Simple, funny, daring, full of love for bikes, life, and us.

CalEarth
Nader Khalili, inspired by the vernacular architecture of his native Persia, has designed and built rammed-earth and other earth construction edifices that are beautiful, comfortable, energy-efficient, and more earthquake-resistant than standard housing. Visit his demonstration village, just a few miles from the San Andreas Fault, through this comprehensive website.

California Cycleways
Dennis Crowley proposes a bicycle tollway between Pasadena and Downtown Los Angeles--the precedent-setting route of the world's first automobile freeway, which itself followed the route of ...a bicycle tollway.

Carfree Cities
Learn about the car-free cities of the future--and the present. Covers new cities as well as conversions of exisiting cities to carfree designs, provides quarterly reports on political and technical developments, and introduces the concept of metro freight.

CarfreeCityUSA
Everyday citizens from all walks of life who strongly desire to push automobiles to the fringes of our lives and reap the numerous personal and global benefits of carfree living.

Centre for Human Ecology
Scotland-based institute that aims to empower individuals, communities, and organisations through "integrating ecological understanding with the wealth and values of the Scottish and other intellectual traditions which combine a democratic community grounding with an inclusive international sense of identity."

C.I.C.L.E.
Cyclists Inciting Change through Live Exchange, they seek to "unify and represent the incredible enthusiasm, diversity, and creativity of the burgeoning movement on a national level, by becoming a hub for progressive bicycle news, culture and advocacy."

Culture Change
Formerly the Auto Free Times, a publication of the Alliance for a Paving Moratorium, now it goes farther afield and covers the effects of all society, not just car culture, and how we can make our lives better.

Cyburbia
(Formerly PAIRC: The Planning and Architecture Internet Resource Center) A guide to urban planning websites, listserves, and newsgroups, including many, many links. Comprehensive, well-organized, and easy to use.

Cycling.org
More bicycling links than you imagined existed, as well as mailing lists and online magazines.

eDesign Online
From the Florida Design Initiative; excellent section on sustainability.

Directory Science Sustainability Listings
It bills itself as "The Comprehensive Science Directory," and lives up to it. This link goes directly to the Sustainability section.

EarthHomeGarden
A Southern California couple moved to the mountains and gradually evolved a carfree lifestyle. They tell their story here. (Scroll down a wee bit.)

EnviroLink
A comprehensive site comprising links, a well-organized bulletin board, and more.

Environmental News Service
Environmental news of every sort from all over the world. Hosts Jackie Giuliano's "Healing Our World" column.

Green Power for a Green L.A.
Read what Los Angeles's Department of Water and Power is doing to reduce the entire region's energy consumption. (And they're doing it at far more reasonable rates than most private green-power remarketers.)

Greenspiration
Planetwide bike ramblers report on what it's like just about everywhere else--good-humored and incisive articles.

International Bicycle Fund
Non-profit NGO providing articles, and links to articles, containing information and statistics primarily on practical bicycle use worldwide. Covers political, economic, and technical matters, including problems and possibilities of urban design in relation to bicycle use. Rich source of inspiration as well as statistics.

Ken Kifer's Bike Pages
Clean, well-laid out site with a warm personal touch. Good articles about the important aspects of bicycling--the whys, the hows, the pleasures and benefits and the problems as well. Not for Lycra addicts.

New Urbanism
Good overview of New Urbanist principles in an attractive website.

Notre Dame Pedestrian/Bikeways committee
Articles, reprints, and links for anyone interested in bicycles and livable cities.

Progress Report
Clippings, articles, a forum, and links examining tax structures and subsidy practices worldwide, with a special emphasis on their relation to pollution, sustainability, and urban design. Green taxes, corporate welfare, economic justice, Congressman Henry George's land rent program, and much much more.

Reclaim the Streets!
Probably the most radical pro-community group around, they call themselves a "disorganization" and are dedicated to nonviolent direct action against the destruction of public space and the commons. One particularly good article is André Gorz's "The Social Ideology of the Motorcar."

Rivendell Bicycle Works
Smooth-riding frames, hard-to-find parts, practical accessories, and cogent essays.

Stolen Bike Registry
Free service that holds your stolen bicycle's serial number and other data and will automatically email you if a bike shop, police agency, etc. runs the number.

Suburban Speculations
Features news, articles, links, and a discussion forum related to suburbs and suburban culture.

TV-Free America
Overcome your addiction to the real opiate of the masses.

Velo-Ville
Canadian bicyclists suffer both American-style suburbs and Scandinavian-style winters; learn how they survive it all at this site. English/Français.

Victoria Transport Policy Institute
Papers and statistics covering all aspects of transportation policy, including automobile subsidies, transit benefits, and more. Hard data to back up your arguments.

With the Grain
Superb resource on community, planning, land use, and taking action.

Workbike
Bicycles earning their living in the workaday world. News and resources.

Work Cycles
Dutch provider of cargo bikes of all sorts.

Xtracycle
Convert almost any standard bicycle into a freight bike.

 

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