Andrew and Kim Conway have written about their experiences with the Bobike Mini. The first part was written shortly after their purchase: Long before our daughter was born, my wife Kim and I began thinking about how to introduce her to a bike. Would we go for a trailer, which seemed safer than a child seat in some ways, but also more unwieldy and certainly more expensive; and if it was to be a child seat, would we do one in the front or in [...]

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In his last Viridian note, Bruce Sterling expounds his Manifesto for Intelligent Consumption. It is an excellent read; here is an excerpt [my emphasis]: It pains me to see certain people still trying to live in hairshirt-green fashion – purportedly mindful, and thrifty and modest. I used to tolerate this eccentricity, but now that panicked bankers and venture capitalists are also trying to cling like leeches to every last shred of their wealth, I can finally see it as actively pernicious. Hairshirt-green is the simple-minded [...]