Posted on 05/25/2008 11:32:25 AM PDT by PROCON
Strapping a queen-size mattress to a bike trailer with bungee cords and straps Saturday morning, Colin Stevens says not to worry.
It looks like a giant stingray perched on a deck of cards, its wingspan hovering above thin air. But he's done this before -- moving his own bed by bicycle -- so he knows it works.
"I've acquired a nickname from some people - 'Haulin' Colin,'" said Stevens, a car-free welder who tows salvaged material behind him on his bike.
That was just one of the human-powered vehicles Central Area residents Joe Goldberg and Venessa Brown used to ferry all their belongings in a "zero-carbon move" this weekend.
Their goal: move a household of two adults and five-year-old twin boys without burning fossil fuels that contribute to global warming.
Friends pulled multiple loads of houseplants four blocks to their new house in a little red wagon. Relatives pushed borrowed shopping carts full of guitar cases, pillows, photographs and cookbooks.
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Only then could they call it "Zero carbon."
Silly, wasted time, but maybe they had fun...?
Maybe the Chinese could do some profitable business with Seattle, selling them their last remaining rickshaws.
Idiot. He releases more carbon due to his own physical activity than he would using an auto. First, he breathes out carbon dioxide. Second, he needs to replace the calories he used. I just hope he’s a vegetarian, or the carbon footprint of his move is even worse.
How much extra carbon dioxide does he exhale peddling that bike?
If they are still breathing, they are still emitting carbon dioxide and aren’t “zero carbon”.
When this moron exhales, he probably thinks all he’s emitting into the atmosphere is peace and love.
“a car-free welder who tows salvaged material behind him on his bike.”
This is life in the third world. However without first world people providing his scrap he would have no job and starve to death.
He is a silly, destructive man.
Do the owners of the shopping carts know that they were "borrowed" and give their permission? What happens if everyone starts "borrowing" shopping carts?
So when will he move the refrigerator?
Yeah, that's what they say to his face. For some reason, I've got a feeling there might be private nickname he's unaware of.
Probably more than he thinks he saved.
If stopped, I would just claim to be a "performance artist" and demand a government grant to continue my work (and pay for gas).
People exhaling and eating food is part of the normally recycling carbon in the atmopsphere. It’s only when carbon fuels are burned that we get a net increase to CO2 in the air.
That’s the theory behind biofuels, although there’s a lot to discuss over whether they work as claimed.
We offset them last nite with a beans and franks dinner.
And what exactly does he think welding does? The arc is usually submerged in some sort of inert gas, commonly CO2.
Duh. May be time for a new job.
You know what would really save CO2, if he could move cars with his bike from one location to another.
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