This February, 23 activists from Green Action and the Right to the City initiative in Zagreb, Croatia were arrested. The raid took place just hours after around 4000 people had turned out to protest against turning part of the pedestrian zone into a ramp for an underground garage.
The operation aimed to remove the accommodation container [...]
A surprising monument was built last year in Moscow to remind people about the dangers of drink-driving. The 12-metre monument shaped like a bottle, is filled with lots of crushed vehicles – not really the epitome of good aesthetics. The monument was made during the run-up to the Worldwide Day of Remembrance of Victims of [...]
Eris Steward, an 81-year-old Australian, experienced addiction to cars in an original way. He left home to go shopping one morning, but ended up more than 600km away. “I just went out on the road to have a drive, a nice peaceful quiet drive. I didn’t know where I was going but I knew it [...]
Last December, the organisation Consumers International published its Bad Company Awards for 2009, recognising excellence in the noble field of greenwashing. Among the four winners, next to Microsoft and EasyJet, Audi was awarded for its “far-reaching TV and Internet advertising campaign that appeared to claim that its Audi A3 TDI could be run on “clean [...]
“Mainstream” may not be the best word to describe David Byrne, yet when a man best known for his role in a rock band writes a book – albeit not completely or for many even sufficiently – about cycling and the infrastructure needed to support it, one is tempted to believe that the issue has [...]
Often we get the impression that some people have more consideration for their car than for anything else: they work for their car, they work to upgrade it on weekends, they drive to relax, they drive to go to work, they drive to go for holidays… And there are a lot of useless things available [...]
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The automobile is very likely the most influential and most harmful invention in the history of the world. If guns had never been invented, the world’s worst genocides could still have taken place under cudgels and swords. It is true that the atomic bomb has made possible the earth’s complete annihilation, but for the most [...]
Car manufacturers are probably among the best greenwashers and would deserve many awards in this category. They all promote their environmental actions on their websites and seem to find new ways to promote the beauty of nature and their efforts to preserve it. On Ford’s Belgian website you can find out that “they are implementing [...]
The Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon (BAPA) and Work for a Better Bangladesh (WBB) Trust organised a bicycle rally in Dhaka on December 26, 2009 to call for ensuring a bicycle-friendly environment in the city in order to make it both lively and liveable. Speakers at the rally called on the government to reduce the high tax [...]
Edited by Jim Conley and Arlene Tigar McLaren
Ashgate Publishing, 2009, 258 pages, ISBN 9780754677727
Car Troubles is a collection of 13 academic essays, all but two written by professors at universities in Canada, UK, USA and New Zealand. The editors make a distinction between the system that supports car travel (vehicles, roads, gas suppliers) and the [...]
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