Last Wednesday night I joined about 80 fellow cyclists in a memorial ride to honor seven cyclists recently killed in the streets of San Francisco. The Ride of Silence, first held in Dallas in 200...
My mom and stepdad live in a small village between Lindau and Wangen in the Allgäu region of South Germany, not far from the Swiss and Austrian borders. It’s a long story of how they settled i...
https://svenworld.com/biking-the-solar-roofs-of-southern-germany-to-see-the-change-you-wish-to-be/
Well, there couldn’t be a better symbolism of yesterday’s shareholder meeting at Chevron’s San Ramon headquarters than today’s headliner in the business section of the San Jose Mercury Ne...
About a month ago I got a snapshot of what it might be like to live in a less fossil-fueled and growth-driven world. I had been working on an assignment for Shareable Magazine on How to Bring Tra...
https://svenworld.com/biking-the-train-to-the-swap-meet-or-life-in-a-carbon-proportionate-world/
Yesterday, as part of National Bike Month, the 17th annual Bike to Work Day was observed and put into action all over the Bay Area. In San Francisco, an unprecedented number of local political an...
https://svenworld.com/you-can-ride-your-bike-to-work-really-wtf/
A few weeks ago I went to a presentation entitled Lessons from Amsterdam: How San Francisco Can Bicycle toward Greatness that featured President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors David Ch...
As some of you know I am attending and working at the Ecocity City World Summit in Istanbul this week. Running concurrently to the climate summit in Copenhagen we are trying to come up with concr...
https://svenworld.com/pedal-magic-on-the-bosphorus-a-photo-essay-from-rainy-istanbul/