Pedaling Beyond Petroleum

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Here’s what Alisa Gravitz, Executive Director of Green America, has to say about the BP oil spill: “[A]s heartbreaking a disaster as this is, it’s critical that we remember.  It’s not a natural disaster.  It’s not an aberration. It isn’t even a surprise! “It’s only the latest in a series of economic and environmental disasters… Continue Reading

If you can’t beat it, farm it.

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Rush-hour traffic at a Lincoln Tunnel entrance…yawn…what else is new? But wait! What’s that in the foreground? It’s a roof…it’s a shipping container…it’s a farm! More precisely, it’s Lincoln Tunnel Farm, installed this spring atop the Beta shipping container (40′ x 8′ x 8′) in RR’s parking lot. We’re growing lettuce, spicy greens, hardy greens,… Continue Reading

Come to RR’s Bike Month Event – TONIGHT!

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Organic Transport for New York: Moving People & Cargo by Pedal Power Tuesday, May 11: 7:30-9:30pm Trike is the new truck! Join Revolution Rickshaws for a lively slide presentation on the present and future of pedal-powered cargo and passenger transport in NYC. Learn how an average human can pedal 500+ pounds around town, without fuel…. Continue Reading

A Tale of Two Bridges

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A couple weeks ago – on Sunday, March 28th, to be exact – Gregg & I triked over the Manhattan Bridge to Kensington (Brooklyn) to help kick off the Prospect Avenue Farm. The event announcement said to bring rakes and shovels…and it’s pretty hard to balance rakes and shovels while riding a two-wheeler…so we figured… Continue Reading