Cut to the chase: "By shifting taxation from employment to environmental destruction, governments could tax over-consumption out of existence. But everyone who...
Some astute observations about alienating technology in this article. Particularly the fact that cars are so stuffed with high tech gizmos now they can no...
Hi All, The New Colonist has an interesting piece on the Netherlands by Jane Holtz Kay. It is, alas, not entirely accurate, and the situation wtih the train...
... Perhaps it is not so much that your stats don't "sink in," as much as that people accurately realize this is the problem of the commons. The areas we're...
From: Richard Even in LA, some things are getting better.... ... More Pieces Fall Into Place for Downtown L.A. Revitalization ... A residential and retail...
Discussion of whether someone should drive an SUV will be academic once world oil production hits its peak in the next ten years. The oil companies,...
... Possibly. But I doubt it. The lights didn't go out when whaling reached its peak and started to decline. There are other sources of energy besides oil and...
... While we shouldn't downplay the potential role of energy shortages in moving the carfree agenda forward, neither should we hang the whole thing on this one...
Car Culture Invades Beijing From the South China Morning Post 2nd January 2002 On a cold winter morning, a radio announcer alerts drivers to traffic jams on...
... All the more important, as one energy field the car addicts will certainly approach--it can work with present-day engines after a slight tweak--is...
... Notwithstanding the valid objection made by Turpin that energy will unlikely be expensive in the future, the most appropriate means of personal transport,...
This is so true. That's why urban renewal with state of the art public housing, transportation and health care is so important. There are so many worthwhile...
A question on a possible Historical footnote. Does anyone know what the signifigance of Robert Moses' license number of his limo being "2000"? I noticed that...
... Strikes, bad maintenance, cancelled and delayed trains, rapidly rising fares, practically everything that CAN go wrong with a railroad IS going wrong with...
... Yes - if we don't stress the positive reasons for carfree development, people will continue to ignore the disadvantages to how things are done now, even as...
Even in a nation where car is king, you can still live like royalty without one. http://www.unconventionalideas.com/carless.html After viewing this list,...
Walking, too, will remain pretty cheap, for that matter. There is a problem with advocating bicycles as the primary means of getting around. How about if it...
... Cheap, healthy, pleasant, and versatile. Cities should support walking as the primary mode of transportation. It's biology. It's how we evolved to move. ...
Actually, suburbs were built by rail, not automobiles. For several decades the only way to get to and from from any suburban town in the US was by interurban...
You have more faith in technology than I do. Oil, a high-density hydrocarbon that has no known replacement, will see declining production worldwide early in...
The problem with ethanol/methanol production is that it is much more expensive than refined oil products. It is also dependent upon cheap energy prices,...
... Gas and coal can easily substitute for petroleum. The conversion is not especially efficient or inexpensive, but it's quite feasible at costs not far above...
... Fifty years from now, I would not be the least surprised if phytogenetic engineers design artificial plants that not only produce ethanol, but whose...
Joel, (and carfree lists) You may remember my email to the carfree-wg about the freestate project http://www.freestateproject.org/ I am interested in this...
Karen's letter published in today's issue of Carfree Times really resonated. I've been thinking along the same lines for, gosh, 30 years. But as Karen notices,...
