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E-Bikes: Better For Your Carbon Footprint Than Regular Bikes?

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If you factor in the carbon emissions associated with producing and delivering the extra food required to feed a rider of a conventional bicycle, charging up an e-bike from your grid-based electrical outlet may be better for the environment.

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Interview: Solar Mowing Founder and Author Lynda DeWitt

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Solar Mowing founder Lynda DeWitt discusses how working as a children’s book author and editor at leading environmental periodicals led her to start her sun-powered lawn mowing company Solar Mowing…

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