After traveling to dozens of cities, I’ve developed a curiosity for the names of various city bike shares. If you’re not familiar with bike shares, they are public bicycle rental programs that allow you to pick up a bike from one station and return it to another. When I lived in New York, I had … Continue reading Good and Boring Bike Share Names
I’ve lived car-free for five years. My entire 20s I've lived without a car. The first three years, I lived in New York. Yet, over the last two, as I've traveled around the world, I've survived in some of the most car-dependent places in the world. I’ve seen the much of the best of public … Continue reading 26 Hidden Costs of Cars: How Car-Dependency Hurts Your Wallet, Your Health, And The Planet
I visited Medellín, Colombia in both 2023 and 2024. Once notorious as the epicenter of the drug cartel era under Pablo Escobar in the late 20th century, Medellín's narrative was dominated by violence and chaos. It was often called “the murder capital of the world.” Since then, Medellín has redefined its image. Today it’s one … Continue reading 7 Urbanism and City Design Lessons from Medellín
The health and fitness industry needs to see that the health of our planet and the people on it are linked. Our the last 150 years, we have continued to damage the health of our planet. We’ve put trillions of tons of carbon dioxide and other fossil fuels into the air. We’ve contaminated our oceans, … Continue reading 8 Ways The Health and Fitness Industry Can Combat Climate Change
We won’t be able to stop the worst of climate change without big, sweeping, systemic change. Is it good if we all compost and recycle? That we turn off the lights when we leave the room? That we plant some trees? Yes. But we're kidding ourselves by pretending that will get us to net zero … Continue reading My 5 Big Ideas to Fight Climate Change
The United States finally has high-speed rail! Well, sort of, kind of, not really. It goes about half the speed of the bullet trains in other regions of the world. But I’ll take it. It’s a start. In fact, I went drastically out of my to test it out. In January 2024, My girlfriend and … Continue reading Brightline Train Florida Review: Universal Studios to Fort Lauderdale