Stan Portus is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in C Magazine, Ossian Magazine, Photomonitor, Emotional Art Magazine, Design Exchange Magazine, Review 31 and others.

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Is the cycling industry getting real about its environmental impact?
BikeRadar

Article
2021

Cycling is often held up as an easy and effective way to reduce emissions to help curtail the devastating effects of climate change.

You don’t have to look far to spot examples of this. Cycling became a talking point at COP26, where many groups and individuals at the summit were espousing the potential of cycling as a low-emissions mode of transport, even if it wasn’t on the official agenda.

But there is a problem – compared to other sectors, the cycling industry has been slow to address (or even acknowledge) its own impact. (...)

“This is planet saving stuff right now”
BikeRadar

Article
2021

With the lowest carbon footprint of any mode of public transport, cycling has long been touted as an effective way to meaningfully reduce carbon emissions.

And with transport responsible for 24 per cent of global CO2 emissions from fuel combustion, there’s no doubt cycling can play an important role in curtailing the climate crisis.

Yet COP26, which began earlier this week, doesn’t seem so bothered by life on two wheels; the transport day on 10 November includes no mention of cycling (or even walking or trains, for that matter). (...)

Desire Discrimination Determination
BikeRadar

Interview
2021

For Dr Marlon Lee Moncrieffe, how the world of cycling responded to the wave of Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 was a peculiar thing to witness. Cycling had started to talk about racism in the sport and its lack of diversity. But, as a Black man and former racing cyclist, Moncrieffe was reminded of being in school where he would be asked to leave the room for speaking about issues from a Black perspective and would return to find his white classmates being praised for giving a second-hand interpretation of what he had been saying. (...)

Cornish Clay
Ossian Magazine

Essay
2021

An analogue radio switches between stations, catching fragments of words and voices, before tuning in to recollections of different people’s relationships to the villages of Pendeen and St Just, located on the Penwith Peninsula at the far tip of Cornwall. The radio transmission forms the soundtrack to Cornish artist Callum Mitchell’s film Gorthwedh (2019). (...)

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