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Jason Varone battles the streets everyday during a 9 mile commute on his bicycle from downtown Brooklyn to the Upper East Side. In addition to his efforts on Streetsblog, he is an artist making work related to the environment and technology. Examples of his work can be found at www.varonearts.org.

Jason Varone

Bicycling

Holiday Bonus for U.K. Ikea Employees: 9,000 Free Bikes

Before he began blogging about land use and transportation, Aaron Donovan wrote The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund&#8217;s annual fundraising appeal for three years and earned a master&#8217;s degree in urban planning from Columbia. Since then, he has worked for nonprofit organizations devoted to New York City economic development. He lives and works in the Financial District, and sees New York&#8217;s pre-automobile built form as an asset that makes New York unique in the United States, and as a strategic advantage that should be capitalized upon.

Aaron Donovan

Cars

Holiday Book Recommendations Open Thread

Aaron Naparstek is the founder and former editor-in-chief of Streetsblog. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Naparstek&#8217;s journalism, advocacy and community organizing work has been instrumental in growing the bicycle network, removing motor vehicles from parks, and developing new public plazas, car-free streets and life-saving traffic-calming measures across all five boroughs. He was also one of the original cast members of the &#8220;War on Cars&#8221; podcast. You can find more of his work <a href="http://www.naparstek.com/">on his website</a>.

Aaron Naparstek

Are Old-Line Environmentalists Asleep at the Wheel?

Climate Change

Futurama 2030 Speech: News Round-Up

Sarah Goodyear is a journalist and author who has covered cities and transportation for publications such as Grist, CityLab, and Streetsblog.

Sarah Goodyear

Futurama 2030: Bloomberg Outlines Ambitious 10-Point Agenda

Parochial Thinking Amid Ominous Signs

Lifelong New York City resident, except for a year in Copenhagen during college. Both experiences have taught me a lot about good (and bad) urban design. I grew up in Staten Island and also lived in Astoria Queens for 5 years. Now I live in Manhattan where I founded Upper Green Side (www.uppergreenside.org), a local environmental group on the Upper East &amp; West Sides of Manhattan.

Glenn McAnanama

Air Quality

Bloomberg: “New York City 2030: Accepting the Challenge”

Mayor Bloomberg Sustainability Speech Tomorrow

Mayor Livingstone: $50 to Drive an SUV into Central London

The Idea of Rising Sea Levels is Sinking In