As cities like Los Angeles struggle to add more bicycle bike paths to their streets, Copenhagen is actually having the opposite problem with its bicycling culture.
Towering over the Copenhagen Canal outside of Denmark’s capital, 8 House is a huge development that via architecture brings its residents closer to nature and offers something to everyone in all age groups.
Oh, to be a fly in the wall in Denmark right now with all the attention foisted on it due to the COP15 summit in Copenhagen. There are many reasons why Denmark is hosting the UN Climate Change Conference. The country has been successfully weaning its way off of fossil-based fuels since the 1970s. Denmark [...]
Yesterday I attended a talk given by USA Ambassador Friis Petersen of Denmark at UCLA’s CIBER (Center for International Business and Research). Ambassador Petersen was in Los Angeles for the day and somehow UCLA was fortunate enough to get a few minutes of his time. With the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change scheduled for next [...]
I miss my bicycle. Years ago, I lived in Gainesville, Florida, and as a poor graduate student, a car was out of the question. I had just moved from Baltimore, where I got by without a car because downtown was compact enough to walk around, and when venturing out, I could take water taxis to [...]