London
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Arnold Schwarzenegger and the mayor of London walk into a bike share …
That's not a joke setup, it's just Thursday. The Governator and the London mayor tooled around on two-wheelers today, looking awkward and getting hollered at by photogs, to promote Mayor Boris Johnson's new bike share plan for the city. Schwarzenegger praised bikes' ability to let you "eat a few extra wiener schnitzel and … get […]
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The world’s top 10 walking cities [SLIDESHOW]
Photo: Miss KA great city is a great walking city. So which is the greatest of them all? Travel book publisher Lonely Planet just surveyed its readers and asked them to pick the best walking cities in the world from a list of 186. Take a stroll through the top 10, counting down to the […]
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Bicycle freight: thinking outside the box truck
Bicycles are already a major piece of the freight puzzle all over the world. Could the practice take off in U.S. cities as well?
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Webcast: What is livability anyway?
On Thursday the electronics giant Philips offers a webcast on that aims to sketch out more of what livability means. It's got some interesting guests, including former London Mayor Ken Livingstone and Creative Class theorist Richard Florida.
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Turning energy savings in London into solar for Africa
What if turning off the lights in your home or office could help people in Africa turn theirs on?
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Postcards from the future
Have a hard time imagining a world reshaped by climate change? These riveting illustrations of future London give a glimpse.
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A new play on climate change hits London [AUDIO]
Global warming is center stage at Britain's National Theater, in the new play Earthquakes in London. PBS speaks with Rupert Goold, the award-winning director
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Greenpeace shuts down 30 London BP stations
Greenpeace U.K. shut down at least 30 BP stations in London on Tuesday in one of the more ballsy displays of civil disobedience against the energy giant. Something for us Yanks to learn from?
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London’s transportation transformation for the 2012 Olympics [Video]
Congestion pricing has been a huge success in London — reducing traffic and making money for the city. What’s more, it challenges the notion that cities should be designed around cars rather than people. But as we’ll learn in this episode of e2, congestion pricing is the core of a much more sweeping vision that […]