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Great video from WWF Canada showing how social norms change, sometimes with, sometimes without, government action.

I still believe that in 10 or 20 years time, people will look back in disbelief at the freedom we gave to vehicles to pollute, [...]

Guest post: shoe review from Helen Parretti

I have been interested in trying some Tone Ups for quite a while, but have been put off from trying them as all the styles I had seen were based on a trainer. I [...]

Following our recent completion of walkit.com coverage for the whole of the West Midlands, we're delighted to announce that our second complete region is now also live. With coverage of Rochdale and Tameside complete, walkit.com now reaches the whole of [...]

It was nice to see a positive reaction on Twitter to our April Fool.

But why should it have to be a fool?  It's more than doable.  Or is Christian Wolmar right when he says it would take too much imagination [...]

Walkit.com can exclusively reveal plans being promoted by No.10 to trial new monthly on-street festivals involving the pedestrianisation of large parts of England's city centres, starting with London.

To celebrate the arrival of British Summer Time in 2012, the first Sunday [...]

Here at walkit.com we're reaching far and wide to increase our coverage in the UK. We're pleased to have now added Perth and Swindon to our growing list of towns and cities, ensuring both Northerners and Southerners can find their [...]

As part of Climate Week, we're pleased to announce the whole of our West Midlands coverage is now officially live!

You can now access walking directions in Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton, which will tell you how much carbon [...]

The National Autistic Society are set to get walking in order to raise money.

The charity will be running a number of Train Walks, which are Thomas & Friends-themed family sponsored walks. The National Autistic Society hope that over 100 walks [...]

Jessica Seaton, co-founder of Toast, recently guest edited a copy of The Good Web Guide's newsletter, and included six of her favourite websites. And walkit.com was one of them! Jessica says walkit.com is a great tool for finding the best [...]

The much debated, planned and consulted upon scheme to turn London's Exhibition Road into a 'shared space' or 'naked street', has at last got underway.

The project's got its very own website, and work should be completed in early 2012.

This is [...]

Took me a while to work out this Mercedes billboard ad:

But I suppose that's what they want – to get people to puzzle over it, and then even get mugs like me to blog about it.

Empty streets, gleaming car, heads [...]

The latest of Bristol Council's reports on the Benefits of cycling and walking has been released. The report in full is shown below.

“Government has recognised the evidence that pedestrians, cycle and public transport users provide as much if not more [...]

Environment Officer, David Dowson has pledged to run his usual 30 mile journey to work – instead of drive, in an effort to raise the awareness of a Green Travel Plan for Worcestershire.

David who works for NHS Worcestershire and Worcestershire’s [...]

Walkit.com is very excited to be getting involved with the research project Ideas in Transit, being run by the University of the West of England, Bristol. The project is looking at how you, our user-base, use our site and what [...]