Hi All, My power is still out at home and may be for days. It's getting cold there, too. Other than the power, things are OK. We had enough wind to bend street...
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Richard Risemberg
rickrise
Nov 1, 2012 2:37 pm
Of interest, from an LA advocacy group mailing list: ... -- Richard Risemberg http://www.bicyclefixation.com http://www.SustainableCityNews.com ...
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Richard Risemberg
rickrise
Oct 23, 2012 11:58 pm
The US census asks households about travel patterns every few years. Here's a link: http://nhts.ornl.gov/ SWITRS is a database of road crashes in California,...
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Eric Fischer
enf@...
Oct 23, 2012 10:33 pm
I can't speak for anybody else, but I think we can learn a lot about cities and transportation from the "big data" approach, and I am trying to do it. I've...
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catecara
domenicovna
Oct 23, 2012 5:38 pm
Hi all, I would like to have your feedback about an idea for a possible case study for a project that we have just started thinking of (this is the early stage...
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Richard Risemberg
rickrise
Oct 22, 2012 11:49 pm
Excellent presentation exploring how we gave away the corner store and ruined everything in just a few decades--and how to get back, or forward, to something...
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Richard Risemberg
rickrise
Oct 21, 2012 10:39 pm
This grassroots website makes an intelligent and comprehensive case for a car-free Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago: http://t.co/bfufYKYQ Hope they get it! Rick -- ...
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Richard Risemberg
rickrise
Oct 18, 2012 3:22 pm
A conservative engineer explains how sprawl & bigbox development patterns defraud the future, and recommends "traditional principles: build things close...
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Richard Risemberg
rickrise
Oct 18, 2012 3:10 pm
First third of the article is backgrounder, but then it gets meaty: http://t.co/nhuVjRih File under "Oil Addiction," cross-reference under "Fraud." Rick -- ...
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Richard Risemberg
rickrise
Oct 17, 2012 3:24 pm
Good rundown on the connection between sprawl, high taxes, and civic bankruptcies: http://t.co/PrcbCLr9 Rick -- Richard Risemberg ...
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J.H. Crawford
carfreecrawford
Oct 17, 2012 3:19 pm
http://neven1.typepad.com/blog/2012/09/models-are-improving-but-can-they-catch-up.html scroll down to the "you are here 2012" graphic. J. ... J.H. Crawford ...
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Richard Risemberg
rickrise
Oct 15, 2012 3:19 pm
Interesting NYT article on Robert Gordon's thesis that we can depend on no more industrial revolutions: http://t.co/lU1gOTKz ... What do y'all think of...
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J.H. Crawford
carfreecrawford
Oct 11, 2012 9:49 pm
Of course, what Michael is proposing, to continue massive released of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere indefinitely, is ALSO geoengineering. It's just not...
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Michael A. Lewis
abbeyista2
Oct 11, 2012 9:46 pm
It was the original response that started with "I'll let this post through..." as if doing someone a favor by posting something that should have been denied. ...
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Jym Dyer
jymdyer
Oct 11, 2012 7:46 pm
... =v= Once again, global warming denialism following the tired script of preemptive _ad_hominem_ attacks ("closed-minded") whenever the substance of an...
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Debra Efroymson
anima1205
Oct 11, 2012 4:11 am
Regarding Joel's point 3, may I add that reducing greenhouse gas emissions, rather than being economically disastrous (as Michael Lewis claims) could be...
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J.H. Crawford
carfreecrawford
Oct 10, 2012 7:23 pm
... snip Well, the post wouldn't be here at all if that were true. ... J.H. Crawford mailbox@... http://www.carfree.com Twitter:...
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Michael A. Lewis
abbeyista2
Oct 10, 2012 7:22 pm
I see from this content that my message is not welcome on this forum. It's unfortunate that so many are so closed-minded about the possibilities of differing...
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Michael A. Lewis
abbeyista2
Oct 10, 2012 4:43 pm
If you go to the original Huffington Post article (linked at the top of the email), the links are all imbedded in the text. Michael...
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J.H. Crawford
carfreecrawford
Oct 10, 2012 4:43 pm
Hi All, I let Michael A. Lewis's post through because it has a viewpoint that I think we're going to hear a lot of in the future. The biggest problem is that...
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Tony Brewer
teeeby
Oct 10, 2012 4:34 pm
Most of the links do not work for me because there is no space between > and the following word. Is it possible to repost with a space after each > ? Thanks....
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Michael A. Lewis
abbeyista2
Oct 10, 2012 4:26 pm
... One of the problems with "connecting the dots" is that the resulting picture depends to a great deal on the predilections of the dot connector. One can...
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J.H. Crawford
carfreecrawford
Oct 10, 2012 2:17 pm
Hi All, I didn't know half this stuff, and I follow climate change fairly closely: ...
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Richard Risemberg
rickrise
Oct 9, 2012 4:05 pm
... NACTO is the "National Association of City Transportation Officials," and they are doing the most progressive work in us street design. Details:...
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Richard Risemberg
rickrise
Oct 8, 2012 11:09 pm
You didn't think that Sustainable City News would let Rush get away with this level of blatant lying, did you? Our publisher and editor Eric Miller has written...
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Richard Risemberg
rickrise
Oct 8, 2012 10:55 pm
Here's a howler form the wingnuts, a book claiming that suburbs are not subsidized, and that ignores coercive zoning in its claims that they developed...
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hkcarley
Oct 7, 2012 12:48 am
See the article (and video) in the new york times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/28/world/asia/hanoi-traffic-daunts-tourists.html?_r=0...
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Richard Risemberg
rickrise
Oct 6, 2012 6:30 pm
In Sustainable City News this week, Debra Efroymson explores the part-time carfree zone in Viet Nam's Hoi An, and wonders why, given its benefits, it isn't...
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jane.
voodikon@...
Oct 2, 2012 11:28 am
The number of Chinese travelers hitting the highways soared to 85 million by Sunday afternoon, in part because, for the first time in more than a decade, tolls...
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J.H. Crawford
carfreecrawford
Oct 1, 2012 2:18 pm
Hi All, I had this message from Jeremy Leach. The animations don't work for me, but the PDF is fine and clear enough. I'd be interested to know if the...
