Pedal People in Northampton, Massachusetts,has found an inventive way of transporting goods and services without creating pollution.

VOA: special.2009.12.04

He said at first he just thought the idea of Pedal People was really cool.

VOA: special.2009.12.04

The eleven owners of Pedal People not only pick up and remove trash and recycling.

VOA: special.2009.12.04

The company has blamed problems with the accelerator pedal and badly positioned floor mats.

VOA: special.2010.02.26

Mario Ritter tells us more. Pedal People calls itself a worker-owned,human-powered transport service.

VOA: special.2009.12.04

We asked Ben Winter how he came to work for Pedal People.

VOA: special.2009.12.04

Today,Pedal People has twelve workers.

VOA: special.2009.12.04

"This is the world's first commercially available pedal generator, allowing to convert your human power into usable electricity.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

He first used pedal power, then turned to hydro and finally turned to solar power generation.

VOA: standard.2009.12.13

"Whatever they did,didn't' work." Stogel says he picked up his recalled 2009 Camry from a dealer after getting repairs to fix a sticky gas pedal.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

"I think it's a good thing, they probably should have done it a few weeks ago when they were saying it was the gas pedal and the floor mats."

VOA: standard.2010.01.28

So when the automaker announced plans to stop selling millions of its cars in the United States and Europe last month because of gas pedal defects, the Japanese were concerned.

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

We've never seen anything like this before," Toyota announced the recall last Thursday following reports that the accelerator mechanism in some models can wear down and cause the gas pedal to stick.

VOA: standard.2010.01.28