The Ultimate Visual Guide to Pedalpalooza! 😎 🚴 🐙 🚴 🌈 🚴

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It's Pedalpalooza!

June in Portland means Pedalpalooza—an assemblage of nearly 300 bike rides that celebrate all things cycling in one of the best cycling cities in the US. (And if you don't think that Portland is a great cycling city, there's a Pedalpalooza ride for that, too). With so many options and only 30 days to ride, we decided to stay inside and crunch the numbers.

From the FPS Blog

Oil Train Derailed: Are we prepared?
Jazzy talks about the work folks are doing behind the scenes to make sure we're prepared and protected in the event of an oil train derailment.

Pedal On
A bicycling animation created using using Fredo6 Animator Plugin for SketchUp.

Brain Candy (candy for your brain)

How do you move a 320-year old structure across an ocean? This 3,000 sq-ft home in Marugame, Japan, will be moved to the Japanese Garden at California's Huntington Library.

Some folks are saying that the concept of carbon credits for forest preservation is worse than doing nothing for the planet.

Separated by Design: How some of America's richest towns fight affordable housing.

Ok, so... thresher sharks are REALLY COOL.

Archaeologists have found what they're saying is the world's oldest break up letter.

Forensic Architecture is in the news again, this time for revealing--at this year's Whitney Biennial--that a board member of the Whitney Museum may be complicit in war crimes. Awkward!

NASA and NOAA warn that pushing out 5G wireless networks too soon could interfere with satellites crucial to early detection of hurricanes. That's bad.

Designer Dano Wall released a 3D-Printed Stamp to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill.

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It's Pedalpalooza!

From the FPS Blog

Oil Train Derailed: Are we prepared? Jazzy talks about the work folks are doing behind the scenes to make sure we're prepared and protected in the event of an oil train derailment.

Pedal On A bicycling animation created using using Fredo6 Animator Plugin for SketchUp.

Brain Candy (candy for your brain)

Oil Train Derailed: Are we prepared?
Jazzy talks about the work folks are doing behind the scenes to make sure we're prepared and protected in the event of an oil train derailment.

Pedal On
A bicycling animation created using using Fredo6 Animator Plugin for SketchUp.