“With the average price of a new electric vehicle climbing to over $60,000, might e-bikes be a more affordable solution to ditching gas powered cars?”

Yes.

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/02/1146543157/e-bikes-could-be-a-more-affordable-way-to-reduce-emissions

#ebikes #npr #climate #bike

Dear #cycling nerds: we're thinking of selling our #Bakfeits and buying a new electric model. What should we know about the options?

Currently we're looking at a #Babou or a #Tern, but are happy to entertain alternatives. We've got one 4 year old and no car, living in (reasonably) bike-friendly Cambridge.

What's your experiences?

The reason Mastodon and the Fediverse is spread out on so many servers is it protects it from being taken over by anyone. Not even the richest can buy this place.

Centralised services like Twitter are incredibly easy to buy out. If you move from Twitter to another centralised service, sooner or later that will get bought out too.

The point of the Fediverse is to break this buyout cycle, to let people be permanently in control of their accounts. More info here:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/mastodon-and-the-fediverse-beginners-start-here/#whyisthefediverseonsomanyseparateservers

Free winter tires for people choosing bikes over cars in #Sweden—public transport agency will give away studded tires for winter bicycle users.

https://t.co/isL9jAk7hA

Remember when leaders ended public health measures claiming that they could always reinstate them when hospitals were overwhelmed again? Well, that’s happening now. Where are the mask mandates? Where is the urgency?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/11/20/hospital-capacity-rsv-flu-covid/

#BringBackMasks #COVID #COVID19 #PublicHealth

Have you ever seen an oak tree dance?

Britain is full of 'lost' rainforests, predominantly in the southwest and northwest of England, western/northwestern parts of Wales and the west coast of Scotland. There are other areas where the conditions are perfect too, like this one in the Peak District National Park.

When the rain starts and the cloud base drops into the rainforest, the trees come alive. Everywhere you look, there is magic and mystery.

#photography #woodland #trees #rainforest