How did an English-Spanish bilingual cocktail waitress end up as an enviro-blogger, windpower correspondent and all-around sustainability enthusiast in the gritty Swedish town of Gothenburg? Start with a failed master's degree in translation and interpretation, add a quatri-lingual English-Swedish-German ad guy, mix in massive concern for the state of the world, and finish off with interminable wanderlust.

Blog Entries by April Streeter

Bicycle Knights and Motoring Rogues

1 Comments | Posted November 4, 2009 | 07:49 AM (EST)


This story could only happen since the advent of Bicycle Culture 2.0.

Last night, the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, was riding his bike home, heard a cry for help from a damsel in distress, hopped off his bike and saved said damsel from a pack of "feral girls."

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Monday Best Bike Bits - Pistol-Packing Cyclist and Bike-Powered Transit Called Shweeb

Posted August 3, 2009 | 08:32 AM (EST)


It's best not to forget that road rage is not limited to those enclosed behind glass and steel. Down in St. Petersburg, Florida, a cycling suspect named Dale Single was arrested this weekend for pulling out a gun and threatening a motorist with it.

The motorist, Meluvdin...

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Friday's Best Bike Bits! Jessica on a Velib, Boston to Embrace Sharing, JCDecaux Does Well Down Under

Posted March 13, 2009 | 03:15 AM (EST)


For a bike and alternative mobility enthusiast such as myself, pictures of Jessica Alba in Paris tooling around the town on her Velib bike-sharing bike were pure, happy joy.

Alba on her Velib reminded people why bike sharing is so popular - with traffic concerns, in many...

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Finally! B-Cycle Touts Bike Sharing For the Rest of U.S.

Posted March 5, 2009 | 12:00 PM (EST)


B-Cycle's web site is slick and almost too pretty - exactly what you might expect from a collaboration between the Trek Bicycle Corporation, Humana and hot-shot ad agency Crispin, Porter & Bogusky.

But don't be turned off - B-Cycle's snazzy video and smooth voice-over...

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