If you're looking to do your part for the environment and you're a bicycle courier, it's time to congratulate yourself - you already have a head start. Since your bike relies primarily on human power fuelled only by the calories you consume, you're already contributing to the conservation of dwindling, non-renewable fossil fuels, as well as helping reduce the huge carbon footprint attributed to the industry.

Because bicycles are smaller and move faster, it also means that you're not part of those long, unmoving traffic jams every time you go off on a courier job. Not only do bicycles help reduce the air pollution by not relying on fossil fuels; they're also quieter, thus helping reduce sound pollution as well.

But realistically speaking, we know we can't all be bicycle couriers. Some packages are just too big to be balancing on a bike (even on a motorbike!) and not all of us are young enough and fit enough to be zipping around on bikes. So what's a man with a van (or a car, of course) to do?

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