A few days ago the Alliance for Biking & Walking (a North American coalition of over 160 grassroots biking and walking advocacy organizations) released their Bicycling and Walking in the United States: The 2010 Benchmarking Report.
The report reveals that: in almost every state and major U.S. city, bicyclists and pedestrians are at a disproportionate risk [...]
This has been the year we all became familiar with the term “scrappage scheme”. It refers to governments subsidies (sometimes backed by the auto industry) given to consumers for buying a new car and scrapping their old one. Although some countries introduced these kinds of schemes long before the economic downturn, they spread around the [...]
Today we released the 75th edition of our monthly e-bulletin World Carfree News, click here for more information on how to subscribe to the newsletter.
In #75 you can read about, among other things:
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3E Youth exchange in York (June 23-June 26, 2010)
Towards Carfree Cities IX, York, UK (June 28-July 2, 2010)
As we reported a few weeks ago, you can now download Peter Styles novel Birds, Booze and Bulldozers, about the environment movement in Britain during the nineties, for free. This is the interview Carbusters did with Peter when the book was released a few years ago.
How much of your latest book is autobiographical?
Birds, Booze and [...]
The story of Toyota cars having accelerator-pedal and brake problems, causing out of control speed and possible crash death in a fireball, is a near perfect allegory for something far more serious: the burning of the planet with fossil fuels including gasoline for cars. The vehicle for the burning of the planet is none other [...]
Now if it would have been a beer truck from a quality brewing company, it may not have made me so mad.
Coors Light used to have the beer slogan “it won’t slow you down”. Well, I beg to differ, it most certainly did.
This post was first published by Ryan Kopp on the Alternative Transportation of [...]
To celebrate World Environment Day 2009, the Swedish commuter organisation Planka.nu hosted a “Climate Crash” together with Friends of the Earth Sweden and Klimax, a network of groups that uses direct action to raise awareness of the threat that climate change poses. Over 150 people took to the streets of Stockholm on a chilly June [...]
A Diet Recommended by Carbusters
Obesity is a growing problem and it may keep on growing if nothing is done to fight it. Car culture plays a role in this phenomenon with drivers and passengers having unhealthy diets and lacking physical activity. This is another reason to promote new models of urban planning and transportation. We [...]
“If you were to design the ultimate system, you would have mass transit be free and charge an enormous amount for cars.” Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York.
We are standing at a crossroad: in order to reduce our oil dependency and make our cities climate smart, we have to change our ways of traveling. It [...]
One could be forgiven for believing that part of the point of motorized vehicles is to shorten distances, make places far away seem closer, and to require less time to travel.
But sometimes the gap between expectation and reality is as wide as those modern streets that are so hard to cross.
On a recent trip to [...]
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