“For over half a century the automobile has brought death, injury and the most inestimable sorrow and deprivation to millions of people.” — Ralph Nader,  Unsafe at Any Speed Here I'm welding a mast onto the Sun Pony solar tandem tricycle. This is Part Five of a five-part series about the Ithaca Generator to accompany the Generating Joy show at the Cherry Gallery from 1/23/26 to 3/8/26. I began my professional career as a mild-mannered web designer way back in 1996 when creat

by Laurence Clarkberg The Solar Hopper, an island-hopping day cruiser. I’m on a train with my wife Judy heading north from Miami to New York after having visited family in Puerto Rico. People always ask us why we choose to take the train instead of fly. Over and over again we have to explain that even though it adds a day to our travel each way we do it because trains emit less pollution than planes. We avoid flying because we value this planet we live on, and we don’t want t

The bamboo bicycle that I made this summer. One sour note you may hear about the eco-friendliness of bicycles is that the bicycle itself...

Here's a quick view of the Honeycycle at our campsite in Taughannock Falls State Park.

It's sometimes hard to see that you're making progress toward a less carbon-intensive lifestyle. To keep track of what you are, or have,...

Laurence and I are gaga over Kate Soper’s Post-Growth Living:For an Alternative Hedonism , Verso Books, 2020, which we’ve been reading...

In part one of this essay I describe how stupid cars are. They are incredibly unsafe, especially if we take a holistic view of safety...

“For over half a century the automobile has brought death, injury and the most inestimable sorrow and deprivation to millions of people.”...

My parents named me Marta, but in the 4th grade, I added a silent “i” to it. I still pronounce it “Marta” but I spell it “Martia.” At...

by Laurence Clarkberg Every spring Judy and I like to go on a week-long ebike tour around Cayuga Lake. It’s really quite enjoyable:...

RhythmWave is a dance camp and we danced everyday. We danced the nap dance of the bowls and gongs, the yoga dance of the bodhisattvas and...

by Judy Swann & Laurence Clarkberg Laurence: People tend to think of electrical power production as something that requires a huge...

We release these our wobbly words into the elusive electronic ether. Is anyone listening? We are two playful ebike experimenters living a...