Comments on: The Hidden Giant #2: Transportation https://planetsave.com/articles/the-hidden-giant-2-transportation/ Science, Animals, Planet Earth, & More Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:49:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 By: Zachary https://planetsave.com/articles/the-hidden-giant-2-transportation/#comment-1611 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:49:51 +0000 http://planetsave.com/?p=2655#comment-1611 woops.. to be clear, ten times safer to bike in the Netherlands than in the U.S.

]]> By: Zachary https://planetsave.com/articles/the-hidden-giant-2-transportation/#comment-1610 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:47:38 +0000 http://planetsave.com/?p=2655#comment-1610 kim,

sorry about the photo.

this is a picture from the Netherlands, where nobody wears a helmet. but people bicycle in a completely different way and have a different bicycling environment.

it is ten times safer to bicycle in the Netherlands.

for whatever reason, nobody there wears a helmet.

& i think it is a beautiful picture 🙂

point taken though — don’t bike without a helmet!

]]> By: Andrew https://planetsave.com/articles/the-hidden-giant-2-transportation/#comment-1609 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:50:40 +0000 http://planetsave.com/?p=2655#comment-1609 I agree that we definitely need to cut down the levels of emissions from transport, and personally I find driving stressful as hell anyway. But I think we have to acknowledge that the car is currently an essential part of peoples lives and that isn’t going to change soon. I recently put together a guide to greener driving to make people aware of some of the options out there – they’re not perfect solutions, but they can help. Anyone interested can check it out at http://www.envweb.co.uk/guides/greendriving.html

]]> By: kim https://planetsave.com/articles/the-hidden-giant-2-transportation/#comment-1608 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:38:53 +0000 http://planetsave.com/?p=2655#comment-1608 I am wondering why the person pictured is so happy… saving energy is wonderful, but if you don’t put a helmet on your 2-year-old, your joy may be short lived. What a horrible choice for a photo to go w/ this article.

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