I’m a bike riding nerd. I love working out new and different ways to get around on my bike, I love seeing full visitor bike parking outside the supermarket and I love looking at sustainability projects to see how they’ve provided great facilities for people who are riding their bikes.
But here’s a weird thing. I keep seeing sustainability projects with bike facilities that are terrible, or non-existent. How can you be a sustainability consultant if you don’t know anything about what cyclists need and can’t encourage people to get on a bike?
Reducing personal transport emissions are one of the best individual climate actions we can take. Transport emissions are responsible for 12% of our personal carbon pollution and we all have the power to change it. E-bikes are the most accessible form of EVs as well as being a heap of fun.
We need more building practitioners to ride bikes so that more buildings have great cycling facilities. I’d love to work out how to make that happen.

Karen and three of her children on a 3 seater bike, called a trandem