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Since 2004, cities across the world have been experiencing the joy of the world’s largest naked cycling promoting event in the history of humanity. Last Sunday 11th March 2011, for the first time in Africa, a peaceful, imaginative and fun protest against oil dependency and car culture took place in...

In 1997, in San Andrés Itzapa in Guatemala, Maya Pedal Asociación began recycling scraps of bicycles into Bicimáquinas. Bicimáquinas are pedal-powered blenders, washing machines and threshing machines, eliminating the need for fuel and electricity. Pumps are also possible, and are capable of extracting 30 liters of water per minute from...

Trinidad, Tobago, isn’t exactly a stone’s throw from New York City—and not just in terms of mileage. When it comes to culture, Caribbeans value the high and mighty, the loud and proud, especially when it comes to music. Whether in the car or on their feet, this community gives a...

We are excited to announce the selected initiatives of the first edition of the “Worldwide Cycling Atlas”. These initiatives have demonstrated an ingenious creativity to see the bicycle as a tool to create energy and also a tool of human development. In all cases the message is loud and clear:...

Worldwide Cycling Atlas has selected the 3 initiatives in the world that best represent the cycling mindset of Atlas and commissioned 3 emerging photoreporters to cover them and produce a video to tell their story. It was not easy to choose between dozens of dozens of wonderful initiatives and in...

Aña Maria Guch – President of “Women for Development in Action” shows how her association of women makes Aloe Shampoo with Bicimáquinas. From the interview: “First we cut the aloe then we take off the skin we cut it into little pieces and we put it in the Bicilicuadora blender...

In these portraits some volunteers of Maya Pedal Asociación. Volunteers comes from all over the world and are often brave cyclists coming from the United States toward South America: Anna Normandin (Arizona – U.S.A.), Bruce Thomas (NEW ZEALAND), David Anhalt (Illinois – U.S.A.), Emily Linders (Missouri – U.S.A.), Gavin Betzelberger...

In the pictures the neighbours of the Future Shock Bike Crew: Fred Beondo (antagonist) – 61 years old – Lived in this neighborhood in Queens for over 40 Years Sheila Smaraia – Lived in Queens for 20 Years – Originally from Georgetown, Guyana

In the pictures, many different environmentalists and peacemakers support the messages of the people attending the event. Some of them came from home with the slogans already painted and the body art made, others joined in with the initiative at the organizers’ command.

San Andrés Itzapa is a small community located in the mountain area in the center of Guatemala, 40 minutes by bicycle from the old capital Antigua, declared World Heritage by UNESCO. The village is surrounded by a thick, neat forest and the climate is called the “eternal spring”, ideal for...