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CNN has started a series of articles and videos called Eco-Solutions about, well, eco-solutions to the world’s, err, eco-problems. This week’s video features Mayor Marcelo Ebrard of Mexico City and his efforts to transform …
I’m happy to see such a high level of sophistication in recent public services announcements on sustainable transportation issues. First we had Lolo, the planet saving Donkey that takes public transportation and now we …
Soy beans on the left, and corn, on the right, are being used for bio-fuel. Photo by cindy47452.
Today, Brenda Gorman reports in the New York Times about a rash of cases involving the bio-fuels …
Photo by padawan.
Dubai: Air quality declines as number of cars rises [Business 24-7]
China: Car owners to be compensated for driving ban during Olympics [Gaurdian]
China: Marathon record holder wont run in China because of pollution [Daily …
There’s wifi on this bus! Photo by RACINGMIX
Transit with wireless is an incredibly attractive way to travel. And apparently AC Transit, a regional bus agency in the San Francisco Bay Area, agrees, providing …
Photo By EMBARQ-WRI.
For the second year in a row, Mexico City has shown that being green can pay. Last week the city was awarded 200,000 Euros from the Spanish Carbon Fund for reducing carbon …
Photo by Jingye.
As car fever strikes Bangalore and other rapidly-expanding cities throughout India, one group stands to lose out big: pedestrians. Yesterday The Times of India ran an important article – No Place for …
China’s Green Beat, is a neat bilingual blog I stumbled upon the other day, written by John Romankiewicz, an American Fulbright scholar currently living in Beijing, and Zhao Xiangyu, a Chinese citizen from Heilongjiang, a …
He’s cute, he’s adventurous, he’s reliable, and he’s closeted. What more could one ask of a folding bike?
My latest love interest is the Dahon Speed 7. I’d been eying him in the …
Congestion pricing is good for the environment and public health. Photo by dlisbona.
A team of scientists at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and King’s College London conducted a study showing that …
Los segundos pisos atienden la demanda de una ciudad que vive bajo un concepto de individualidad que ya no responde a las necesidades de las megalópolis del Siglo XXI. Es preciso desarrollar un diseño inteligente de sistemas de transporte público que permitan la reducción de emisiones contaminantes. Las soluciones parciales, focalizadas, no sistémicas, envían el falaz mensaje de “resolver el problema de movilidad”, empero…
India’s Hindustan Times reported today that the World Bank has approved a $430 million project to help finance improvements in Mumbai’s suburban rail system, which carries nearly 7 million commuters daily.
The Mumbai Urban Transport Project-2A …
The District Department of Transportation has released the preliminary map of bike share locations for the new Capital Bikeshare, set to open this fall with 1,100 bikes at 114 solar-powered stations.
The proposed station locations incorporated …
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