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Extreme human-powered delivery
Most discussion on transportation alternatives to single-occupant fossil fuel-powered vehicles focuses on moving people from place to place. Options might include electric trains, walking, and...
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-Transit as a Development Tool, but in Whose Interest? -Better Bikeways: Guerrilla Improvements and DIY Signage -What's not to like about high-speed rail? The case simply hasn't been maderead more
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Reclaiming the streets
Cars promise mobility, and in a largely rural setting they provide it. But in an urbanizing world, where more than half of us live in cities, there is an inherent conflict between the automobile and...
View ArticleToward sustainable travel: breaking the flying addiction
Flying dwarfs any other individual activity in terms of carbon emissions, yet more and more people are traveling by air. With no quick technological fix on the horizon, what alternatives — from...
View ArticleReinventing Houston
What struck me during a recent visit to Houston is that efforts to create a downtown with the kind of round the clock activity one sees in other world class cities such as Chicago or New York have so...
View ArticleDrive easy
There is a way we can stretch our oil use, decrease our involvement in the Middle East, reduce climate change, dramatically lower the number of traffic deaths, extend the life of our cars and increase...
View ArticleMayor Cornett of Oklahoma City "gets it".
The Mayor of Oklahoma City is recommending that bus service to the "fringes" of the city be discontinued, for fiscal reasons, thereby proving that he "gets it", in terms of the realities of the peak...
View ArticlePeak oil and public transportation
Michael Lind is the Policy Director of New America’s Economic Growth Program and a frequent contributor to Salon.com. He recently published an article regarding the future of...
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A government says NO to airport expansion
The British government's recent decision to cancel construction of a third runway at London's Heathrow airport marks a major milestone in our adaptation to post-carbon mobility. This is the first time...
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Sailing the Salish Sea: Passenger Service in BC
Carson Tak has made history as the first known modern-era sail-powered passenger service captain/entrepreneur... Such a life as Carson Tak's is enviable. However, what he's doing for a living is more...
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