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There are 100,000 people a day safely using Velib' in the massive urban center that is Paris, with no road rage, accidents or even near-accidents that we witnessed. I think it's time we either dispel the notion that bikes are unsafe in US traffic or change traffic so that bikes can be a significant part of the mobility mix...

Amsterdam, city of bikes. The streets are full of them, Dutch "Granny bikes" with upright handlebars piloted by stylish hipsters and real grannies. Fifty percent of people in Amsterdam ride a bike at least once a day. More...

If you can believe it, Shell Oil company provides two plausible future scenarios in which oil supply drops in either case. No surprise there. The biggest surprise is the fact that such a company would release these scenarios to the public to help usher in more renewable energy. Perhaps that is no surprise either. Take a look!

Car sales to Americans have fallen well below normal this year so far. This is an anomaly for the DiTech home re-fi'ing American public. The drop in sales portends future drops in sales, since Americans no longer have easy credit or home refinancing available to drop increasingly worthless dollars on gasoline-sucking self-propelled cages.

Despite Apple's notorious GREENWASHING campaign, the fact remains that the IPOD is one of the worst scourges to the environment in recent memory--Story of Stuff's expose covers that well and good. What about Gore's involvement? (No, not that oil stock ownership scandal...)

Who should it be? Before we go into individual candidates, let's break down political ideologies...

"If Swedish furniture nazis IKEA have the balls to charge for plastic bags, why can't everyone else? Corporations love to squeeze every last buck out of the consumer, so why do they stop short when it ACTUALLY HELPS REDUCE WASTE?"

we do note that costco has NO bags... although everything there is very packaged and shipped a long way..

General Electric's biggest spending on "environmental initiatives" now to deflect criticism, corporate style, is ADVERTISING.

Paris Hilton going green? Who's going to be LAST to this party?! Arf, must be our parents. And deep green means having 2 or less kids, and decentralized everything.

Michael Pollan covers what "unsustainable" mean for modern, industrial agriculture, and what it spawns. Mutated bacteria which now kill more Americans than AIDS, for starters. And, this starts with over-medicated bacon!

Coverage of this week's greenwash news items and opinions. Same new, same old: "green fuels", greenwashing watchdogs, and a newish blog.

Everyone needs food, water, shelter, and a real life social network. (humans are social like ants and collectively as smart as yeast) So... beyond these, are all the other items are we using disposable? Sustainable? Is floss re-usable? Condoms?

Don't forget to check out "Story of Stuff"--hot new movie by Free Range team!