Forum: Living Car Free

I'm curious as to why (and where) people live car-free or commute by bike. We're surrounded by a car-based culture. In almost all circumstances, cars are put first: there are more parking spaces than bike racks, more advertising for cars than bikes, cars get more space on the road than bikes,...

Thought I'd ask this question in Living Car Free, since many here understand the ideas of simple living. I often find that my desire to live simply competes with my desire to acquire more bikes. I realize it is more of a 'want' issue than a 'need' issue, but it's hard to get over that hurdle. ...

was going great guns on my move towards car free living when I came down with a really nasty cough/cold combo and the last thing I could imagine was stomping on the pedals for the 5 mile trip to the dentist yesterday morning. I got in the car and wondered what would I do if I didn't have a car to...

The company I'm working for is pulling resources back to Santa Rosa to help it ride out the recession. If I participate in this, it means relocating from Scotland to sunny California, so I'm thinking it would be a great time for a lifestyle change and to sell and not replace my 9 year old car....

What do you do for a living and how does not having a car (or using it seldomly) affect what you do for a living ?

Hi everyone, I am a student from Copenhagen Business School (Denmark) and I am doing a research project for my User-Driven Innovation class. On behalf of my research group I turn to you for some help. It would be very well appreciated and it would take you only few minutes. Here is the problem...

I've been doing the occasional live sound gig, perhaps a few times a year for the last three or four years. I've been able to get more work, and have 2 jobs tentatively booked for next year. However, I don't drive, and begging rides from friends or my wife isn't a viable option if I get a lot more...

The other day when i biked to the store I yelled to get the attention of a girl who was texting over her handle bars. She almost drifted into oncoming traffic and it could've been ugly. I'm sad to say it's not the first time i see people texting/talking when on their bicycle. I either don't...

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Let's see how many of you practise what you preach... And I am talking about practically, not attending meetings or pontificating.

Coming this November I will have been living car free for two years, and my wife is already well past the 1 year mark. The catch is, we live in a small town in Maine where the nearest mass transit is 60 miles away, and where the winters can be fairly brutal (see below). Riding home in a...

Read the sign all the way to the right. This is at the Miss Earth 2009 contest in Manila Philippines. http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01516/earth14_1516291i.jpg http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01516/earth14_1516291i.jpg It is on this...

I figure this is a good place to point me in the right direction. I am trying to get the corporate crap out of my life and only support local businesses and such. But at the same time I am trying to go green and switch to organic. Can some people give me some pointers on this? I am already...