How dangerous is it to ride a bicycle?

Here's a thoughtful and well-researched article on the safety of bicycling by Alan Durning of Grist.  Here's his bottom line: Biking is safer than it used to be. It's safer than you might think. It does incur the risk of collision, but its other health benefits massively outweigh these risks.…

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Electric cars for Israel

Raymond Learsy reports on one aspect of post-oil: Renault Nissan, and California-based Project Better Place, are working together with the government of Israel to make the country oil independent by 2020. Denmark has already signed on to implement the sinews of this major electric car initiative. In broad outline, Renault…

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