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A recent research by the University of the West of England found that a 20-minute increase in commute time is as bad as a 19 per cent pay cut for job satisfacti...

04 Dec, 2017

There is a huge opportunity to promote a greater culture of walking and cycling. We reported in July about a brilliant initiative by Healthy Stadia, World Heart...

03 Oct, 2017

UPDATE 22/09/17: ECF was pleased to be given the opportunity to comment on the WHO Draft Global Action Plan on Physical Activity (GAPPA). The ECF submission ca...

07 Aug, 2017

New approach to promoting physical activity moves cycling and walking to head of the pack. WHO launched a process developing a new Global Action Plan for t...

25 Jul, 2017

We've long been fans of cycling for tranSPORT, cycling to sport, and even now and then cycling as a sport, as long as you're doing it yourself! As ECF’s health...

04 Jul, 2017

A cycling tour was co-organised on 1-7 May 2017, by Turkish ECF Member Enverçevko (Energy Efficiency and Environment Protection Association), Bursa Bubidosd (Bu...

23 May, 2017

Economic benefits of shopping by bike for the local retail. 

11 May, 2017

To enable more people to cycle to work, is one of the objectives of the European CHIPS – Cycle Highway Innovation project. The first step of the project involve...

30 Mar, 2017

The prominent researchers Buehler & Pucher found that far fewer people have died walking and cycling over the years since the early 90s. Reviewing data...

17 Feb, 2017

International Cycling Conference 2017 is an an interdisciplinary and international three-day scientific conference organized to highlight the role of...

08 Feb, 2017

WHO-ECF HEAT webinar: hear about the value of the cycling happening in your city or country, then check out the one hour webinar that ECF and World Health...

23 Jan, 2017