Sustainable Transport

Stories

8th November 2021

This machine fights climate change.

Anna Hughes, Director, Flight Free UK, long-distance cyclist and bike mechanic during the Ride for Change, shares why the bicycle is a good place to start when engaging in climate activism.

1st September 2020

Could you go a year without flying?

We recently chatted to Anna Hughes, long-distance cyclist, author, environmental campaigner and director of Flight Free UK, Anna Hughes.

9th May 2020

Cycling in the city - on the brink of dramatic change

In need of good news? One potential silver lining of the Covid-19 crisis is the anticipated acceleration of new green mobility initiatives. An urban environment teetering on the brink of positive change awaits, so there’s no better time to enjoy the feeling of human-powered, two-wheeled exhilaration than now.

Authors

Jonathan Purkis

Jonathan Purkis

Jonathan Purkis is an independent academic, tutor and musician. He grew up in Hull, studied and later taught sociology in several English universities. He has published many works on environmental protest and anarchism and has been collecting information on hitchhiking almost from the day he first stuck his thumb out in 1982. (Since then he has clocked up 40,198 miles and had lifts from 1309 strangers, but does not consider himself officially 'retired'!).

Anna Hughes

Anna Hughes

Anna Hughes is a cyclist, author and sustainable transport campaigner. She is currently the Director of Flight Free UK as well as being on the board of the charity Population Matters. You can learn more about her work at www.annacycles.co.uk.

Tessa Parry-Wingfield

Tessa Parry-Wingfield

Professional content writer and former TV journalist for news stations such as Reuters, ITV, GMTV and Al Jazeera English, and news agency Press Association (PA). Now a stationary storyteller with a passion for writing about adventure. Running lover. Not good on two wheels.