Are We? part 2

Part 2 in a two part video documentary titled "Are We Changing Planet Earth?"(LINK Part 1)

Part 2 Are We Changing Planet Earth
Uploaded by thedreadzone

Video Description:

David Attenborough explores just how much climate change is altering our planet. He looks ahead to find out what needs to be done to save Planet Earth from the worst impact of global warming and discovers what could happen to the planet once a 'tipping point' of carbon emissions is reached. He also discusses the solutions we can all adopt to prevent catastrophic change.
(Duration: 29:51 Taken: 04 June 2006 Location: United Kingdom)

Recommended Links:
- Cycle Santa Monica! community forum

Are we?

Part 1 of a two part video "Are We Changing Planet Earth?"(Link Part 2)

Part 1 Are We Changing Planet Earth
Uploaded by thedreadzone

Video Description:

David Attenborough explores just how much climate change is altering our planet. He looks ahead to find out what needs to be done to save Planet Earth from the worst impact of global warming and discovers what could happen to the planet once a 'tipping point' of carbon emissions is reached. He also discusses the solutions we can all adopt to prevent catastrophic change.
(Duration: 29:04, Taken: 04 June 2006, Location: United Kingdom)

Recommended Links:
- Cycle Santa Monica! community forum

Kids Talking...

In a recent post I showed a new comercial called "It's Not Too Late" showing a kid talking about their concern about the environment to adults.

Here is another commercial made by kids talking about what they are doing to improve the environment. This one was also featured on Climate Code".


Video Description:

Fourth and fifth graders explain why they started a recycling program at The Park School in Brookline, MA. These interviews were filmed for The Weather Channel's "Climate Code" show and some were shown to a national audience!

Here is another kids video which shows the creativity of kids working on environmental issues and having fun doing it.



Video Description:

kids having fun, recycling junk into speed machines and weapons, such as from old wood, chairs, etc.

Energy Breakthroughs

These car/bicycles (velomobiles) are amazing.(see video below)

This is the first lap of the 2005 Energy Breakthrough.



Recommended Links:
- Cycle Santa Monica! community forum

Paris by Bike

This is a video taken while riding a recumbent bicycle in the streets of central Paris, France.(2 parts)
Part 1:

Part 2:

Bicycle Freeways...

If bicycles had access to the 10 freeway, it may be possible to get from downtown Santa Monica to downtown Los Angeles ( about 11 miles) in about 8 minutes. Yes folks, that is correct, EIGHT minutes. As a matter of fact it could be possible to go so fast on the 10 freeway, that a bicylists could get a ticket for going over the speed limit.

Here is a video of what it might look like from inside a velomobile powered only by your legs. This video is taken on about twelve(12) mile portion of a highway near a town called Battle Mountain, in September 2006. The bicyclist is Freddy Markham. And he clocked himself at 78 miles per hour.

Bike over water

You guys have probably read about several people touting that they have rode their bicycles around the world. In most cases these cyclists admit that they don't bicycle arcross oceans.

Well, This may be a way for one of those around the world bicycles to get across oceans by pedal power.(see two videos below)





Video Descriptions(French):

Essai du dirigeable à propulsion humaine Zeppy, gonflé à l'hélium et propulsé et dirigé par des hélices en carbone. Stéphane Rousson, pilote du Zeppy, projette de traversée la Manche en 2007.

Monobike

Video Description:

Vu à Interlaken lors de la dernière manche du championnat de VPH suisse cet engin monoroue plus stable qu'il n'y parait au premier abord.

The Future...

"It's Not Too Late"

NOTE: also see "Kids Talking..."

It's not too late
Uploaded by ITS-NOT-TOO-LATE

Video Description:

Climate change is changing our world. Within the lifetimes of children being born today, it may challenge our survival as a species.
The Earth is hotter than it has been for at least one thousand years. By the end of this century, if current trends continue, the temperature will likely climb higher than it's been at any time in the past two million years. The consequences of this drastic rise, caused by burning fossil fuels, are likely to be catastrophic: mass extinctions, droughts, hundreds of millions of refugees ...

Steve Jobs on Bikes

Steve Jobs the Founder of Apple, the maker of Macintosh computers talking about bicycles...




Video Description:
Memory & Imagination: New Pathways to the Library of Congress - Documentary available on DVD - http://www.mlfilms.com/ - Clip Authorized by MLF - Michael Lawrence Films

Here is what Steve Jobs said:

"I think one of the things that really separates us from the high primates is that we're tool builders. I read a study that measured the efficiency of locomotion for various species on the planet. The condor used the least energy to move a kilometer. And, humans came in with a rather unimpressive showing, about a third of the way down the list. It was not too proud a showing for the crown of creation. So, that didn't look so good. But, then somebody at Scientific American had the insight to test the efficiency of locomotion for a man on a bicycle. And, a man on a bicycle, a human on a bicycle, blew the condor away, completely off the top of the charts.

"And that's what a computer is to me. What a computer is to me is it's the most remarkable tool that we've ever come up with, and it's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.”

Bicycle Stunts

The stunts and bicycle on this commercial would make for itneresting scenes on a future "James Bond 007" film.

1996 - Airwalk shoes
Uploaded by brengibble

Animated Traffic Lights

Chinese Traffic Lights. They include animated pedestrians and bicycles using LED lights. Nice!

Chinese traffic lights
Uploaded by perabu

Summer Snow 3

This is episode 3 of 11, of a Japanese TV series called "Summer Snow". It is a story revolving around people and a bicycle shop. It is in Japanese and captioned in English.

Summer Snow Ep.3
Uploaded by tmjr2006

Summer Snow 2

Summer Snow ep.2
Uploaded by tmjr2006

Summer Snow 1

This is the first episode of a Japanese TV series called "Summer Snow". The show revolves around a bicycle shop. It is in Japanese language with english captioning. Approximately 46 minutes in length.

Summer Snow ep.1
Uploaded by tmjr2006

Video Description:

A love story between a young man who has been forced to grow up too quickly, and a young woman with an ailment that has placed restrictions on her life. Natsuo (Domoto Tsuyoshi) has been looking after his younger brother and sister since the death of their parents. He has also been running the family bicycle shop. Yuki (Hirosue Ryoko) becomes the only person in the world in whom he can confide. For Yuki, Natsuo becomes the catalyst that has her trying to break out of her cocoon.

Bicycle Parking

This is a funny bicycle parking commercial.

Bicycle's Parking -
Uploaded by pierlu958

Bicycle Prosthetic

This video shows a guy (partial leg amputee) with wearing a special partial prosthetic which allows him to ride a bicycle.

Pilon pour pratique du cyclisme
Uploaded by adepa

Bicycle Lift...

This is wild... a kind of escaltor up hills for bicycles...

It is reported to be the first of it's kind in the world and developed by "Design Management AS"

It is located in Trondheim Norway.

Extreeme Wheelchairs

Record setting, x-treme wheelchair trick riding, including first successfull back flip riding a wheelchair. Wild!

Maybe we may see wheelchair riding as an Olympic athletic competion.



Video Description:

Footage of Aaron Fotherinham doing some pretty sweet tricks in his wheelchair. He also performs the worlds first wheelchair backflip. Video found on www.colourswheelchair.com

Got Harley?

Some people have said that media can shape public and convey an image that people want to emulate. And that possessing the product or doing the action being glamorized will cause people to want that product. And having that product will give them the feeling that that was induced by the story telling that glamorized that product.

Here is one example of how Harley Davidson motorcycles are glamorized. In this commercial they blend sexuality, higher social standing ("Respect"), and the feelings linked to it, with the Harley Davidson motorcycles.