Hi everyone... I was originally just going to post this to the Carfree_Network list as research for a project World Carfree Network might start relating to...
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Carlos F. Pardo SUTP
pardinus
Feb 15, 2006 8:13 pm
I think Mockus's ideas were to make the public more active in policy decisions. It's a nice discussion, especially when it is told by Mockus himself. It's a...
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mauk_mcamuk
Feb 17, 2006 11:15 pm
Hmmm. An interesting discussion here, I think. :) ... Well, maybe, but I think that quite unlikely. A lot of this revolves around what you call the system,...
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J.H. Crawford
carfreecrawford
Feb 18, 2006 9:05 am
... and a small town named Chernobyl ... The supply of fissile material is quite limited in terms of supplying most of the world's energy for more than an...
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Doug Salzmann
c1ttad1no
Feb 18, 2006 5:00 pm
... Exactly right. There is not nearly enough fissionable uranium available in the Earth's crust to power a world of 6.5-billion-and-growing humans out of our...
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J.H. Crawford
carfreecrawford
Feb 18, 2006 5:15 pm
... Well, except that the amount of U238 is also limited, although there is a LOT more of it than U235. Even with unrestricted breeding, we still run out of...
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Doug Salzmann
c1ttad1no
Feb 18, 2006 6:44 pm
... See, *even I* can be overly optimistic -- about nuclear power, no less. Now, there's a scary thought ;^) -Doug...
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mauk_mcamuk
Feb 19, 2006 5:38 am
Hmmmm. ... LOL! <sigh> Okay, let's discuss Chernobyl then. I have studied the accident at Chernobyl, a LOT. (Simple rule: Never try to burn your way out of a...
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mauk_mcamuk
Feb 19, 2006 6:12 am
Hrrrrm. ... I am terribly sorry, but this is a common misconception that is, fortunately for our grandkids, wrong. Uranium is actually quite a common metal in...
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J.H. Crawford
carfreecrawford
Feb 19, 2006 9:31 am
Hi All, OK, this is not a nuclear energy site, let's can this. I DID say that I thought that we were likely to build new nukes notwithstanding public...
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J.H. Crawford
carfreecrawford
Feb 19, 2006 9:53 am
Hi All, After my last message, I happened to read today's Wash. Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/18/AR2006021801059.html ...
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Ian Fiddies
v03fiia@...
Feb 19, 2006 9:56 am
"Why, oh why, can't we ever seem to talk about doing more with less? It's just not all that difficult. Must be bad for friends of Bush." In Sweden there have...
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Steve Melia
dartmoorsteve
Feb 20, 2006 5:27 pm
(from: www.britishmotorshow.co.uk/content.asp?PageID=250) Half (47%) of all car owners in the UK talk to their motors on a regular basis, according to research...
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Mike Neuman
mtneuman
Feb 20, 2006 8:00 pm
... friends of ... (snipped) We are told from day one that "more" is better, that's why. Most people will not accept the notion that "less" of anything (of...
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dubluth
Feb 20, 2006 9:23 pm
I agree with the use of financial incentives to achieve many environmental benefits. However, rebates come at a cost -- revenues to fund the rebates must come...
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Eric Britton
fekbritton
Feb 21, 2006 11:49 am
There is some interesting discussion going on over in the Wikipedia entry on the Car-free Cities movement at ...
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J.H. Crawford
carfreecrawford
Feb 21, 2006 2:23 pm
Hi All, Eric Britton posted to the Carfree_Cities list today. I have some comments, and I thought the discussion was relevant to WCN, so I'm cross-posting my...
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Lloyd Wright
lfwright_itdp
Feb 21, 2006 3:21 pm
From my understanding, Wikipedia is an information source providing a neutral, objective perspective. Thus, I imagine that it would be appropriate for both ...
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Simon Baddeley
s.j.baddeley@...
Feb 21, 2006 3:57 pm
Correction. Wikipedia is not by definition a neutral phenomenon. An item is entered and within various rules and guidance can be edited by anyone who's signed...
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Lloyd Wright
lfwright_itdp
Feb 21, 2006 3:59 pm
I suppose that it is a viable solution in the sense that Venice, Zermatt, Fez, Bogotá and Quito (Sundays), September 22, and many other examples all exist. ...
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Simon Baddeley
s.j.baddeley@...
Feb 21, 2006 4:02 pm
All political movements have their version of "car-lite"; versus "carfree". Marx famously attacked a breed of campaigners who emerged under the shadow of...
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Eric Britton
fekbritton
Feb 21, 2006 4:23 pm
[See full message set just below following text.] This is getting interesting, and once again we are seeing a fair spread of views as to what this is all...
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Mike Neuman
mtneuman
Feb 21, 2006 4:24 pm
Public surveys suggest that people respond more favorably to positive incentives (rebates) than to negative ones (increased taxes). But if the revenues from...
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Simon Baddeley
s.j.baddeley@...
Feb 21, 2006 4:38 pm
Ah yes! I hadn't read this. Eric knows the importance of "volunteers" to defend and maintain the integrity of a wikipedia theme. S ... ....
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markus-heller@...
mhpheller2003
Feb 21, 2006 9:06 pm
Hi all, I would prefer to have the entry with just "carfree" (there is a german page just "autofrei";), then more pages about details like - carfree movement -...
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Randall Ghent - WCN
rghent_wcn
Feb 21, 2006 9:28 pm
Hello everyone, I would propose that this discussion be only on the carfree_cities list from now on. That way the lists remain distinct. It's also our normal...
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J.H. Crawford
carfreecrawford
Feb 21, 2006 9:45 pm
... This sounds like a good scheme to me. It would eventually have pages for carfree rural life, public transport for carfree cities, etc., etc. The car-lite...
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Simon Baddeley
s.j.baddeley@...
Feb 21, 2006 10:30 pm
Hullo A slight shift of emphasis here. If Carfree is to thrive on Wikipedia then it should be placing hyperlinks throughout Wikipedia on such pages as...
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Randall Hunt
randhunt
Feb 22, 2006 4:04 pm
... It's all in the definition of value. One might frame the argument as a discrimination between standard of living and quality of life -- there is no direct...
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J.H. Crawford
carfreecrawford
Feb 22, 2006 5:19 pm
Hi All, Recent discussions on the Carfree_Cities and World Carfree Network lists raise the question of what and whom these lists are for. Carfree_Cities is not...
