Hi All, See this AM's Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/dec/02/report-redesign-cities-population-growth The video is cheesy, but "so few...
The December issue of The New Colonist is available now, featuring stories on: *Pittsburgh's Public Market *Mindful Consumption *Backyard Chicken Farming in...
Portland's Elly Blue writes in Grist about bicycle freighters, urban delivery, and Boris Johnson's proposal to keep heavy trucks out of London altogether: ...
Interesting figures from the statistical study of the Lyon bikeshare ... Link to full article: http://tinyurl.com/26yweh3 Rick -- Richard Risemberg ...
Excellent article forwarded by copenhagenize on utility cycling in Paris: http://bit.ly/esQzuY Rick -- Richard Risemberg http://www.bicyclefixation.com ...
A short synopsis of the effect of providing automobile parking on the US environment: http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2010/dec/01/first-nationwide-count- ...
Hollywood Farmers Market: nutrition, community to be sacrificed for more parking? http://tinyurl.com/253m8tm The market has been operating for 17 years in the...
Here are two recent articles in World Streets that may interest some of you here at Sustran: TRANSPORT, ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC POLICY IN HARD TIMES We have no...
Hi All, Carfree Times #60 is now on line at: http://www.carfree.com/cft/i060.html If you spot any errors, please let me know OFF LIST as soon as possible. I...
Study from Australia (whose demographics are very similar to those in US) showing that adding bike parking in place of car parking in commercial districts...
Iran sharply reduces gasoline (and other fossil fuel) subsidies in an effort to balance its own budget. Telling quote form this morning's ... We won't take...
Interesting musings on why some drivers are becoming more rage-prone as others (and their children) lose enthusiasm for the car: http://bit.ly/fWEYnu Rick -- ...
This sounds like class politics at its worst. Anybody who isn't driving is supposedly one of two things: - Poor, unable to afford a car, and not paying their...
... And, of course, driving is so subsidized--that is to say, fees and taxes applied to cars, fuel, and drivers themselves cover so little of the cost of...
There's a photo circulating on the Internet that demonstrates this sense of entitlement. A student has tacked a flyer to an on-campus reserved parking sign...
This is a good short analysis of comparative value-capture ratios of sprawling Wally Word development vs. dense downtown-style neighborhoods. It lays out the...
Hi All, I have long said that China has, in the long run, a choice between driving and eating. The article below suggests that this may already be happening, ...
LA Times article notes the irony of importing water to SoCal while building vast storm drain systems to throw away good clean rain. A ... IOW, sprawl- and...
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Dec 26, 2010 3:31 pm
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the article is referring not to farmland being converted to sprawling cities but to the farmers leaving their farms behind...
They're both covered in the new issue of The New Colonist, now in its 11th year! Bingo, the Gentle Madness No matter the irresistible appeal of attempting to...
Published on Tuesday, January 4, 2011 by The Independent/UK Tax on Carbon: The Only Way to Save Our Planet? He first warned about climate change 30 years ago....
Well-done demolition of the O'Toole/Cox axis's balderdash about roads "paying for themselves" while all other modes--transit, cycling, even walking--are...
Staggering statistic: 1/4 of US cropland is used to convert petroleum to alcohol for cars: "Some short-term fixes are possible. If the US government ended the...
... -- Richard Risemberg http://www.bicyclefixation.com http://www.newcolonist.com http://www.rickrise.com [Non-text portions of this message have been...
