Carfree Times: March 2010
Don’t miss the latest issue of Carfree Times, available at J.H. Crawford’s web carfree.com!
Read the whole issue here.
Category Archives: Blog
Other editorial content: Action Report, Blog, Book Review, Car Cult Review, Carfree City, Carfree Conversion, Design & Innovation, Feature Article, Interview, Media Club, Member Profile, Skill Sharing, World News
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Towards Carfree Cities Conference IX
“How do We Get There?”
York, England, 28 June to 1 July 2010
We are pleased to announce that the ninth Towards Carfree Cities conference will be held in the historic city of York, England, from Monday 28 June to Thursday 1 July 2010.
Coming to the UK for the first time, this year’s conference is co-organised by [...]
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NASA: Motor vehicles greatest contributor to atmospheric warming
“A new study led by Nadine Unger of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York City offers a more intuitive way to understand what’s changing the Earth’s climate. Rather than analyzing impacts by chemical species, scientists have analyzed the climate impacts by different economic sectors.
In their analysis, motor vehicles emerged as the [...]
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Anti-Olympics logos free to download
British illustrator and designer Shtig who was working for Carbusters magazine few years ago created a series of spoof Olympics logos that ridicules this ‘corporate’ event. All images are anti-copyright, so feel free to use them as you want – for stickers, websites or whatever.
Click here to download a high-res version
Want to know more about [...]
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Friends of the Earth Croatia news: Police arrested 23 activistsr
Riot police arrest 23 in night raid on peaceful protest against the destruction of Zagreb pedestrian zone
Zagreb, Croatia, 11 February 2010
At 03.30 this morning around 100 riot police arrested 23 activists from Green Action and the Right to the City initiative in Zagreb, Croatia. The raid took place just hours after 4000 people turned [...]
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Times Square: No cars go!
This week, Mayor Bloomberg announced that Broadway in Times Square (42nd St. to 47th St) and Herald Square (33rd St. to 35th St) will now be permanently closed to traffic. What initially started as an experiment to improve public safety and traffic flow in May 2009 is being widely touted as an outstanding success.
After the test started [...]
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New report from the Alliance for Biking & Walking
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 [...]
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WORLD CARFREE NEWS Edition 75 – January/February 2010
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:
Carbusters #41
Follow Carbusters on Twitter
3E Youth exchange in York (June 23-June 26, 2010)
Towards Carfree Cities IX, York, UK (June 28-July 2, 2010)
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Stuck Accelerators: Toyotas and the Fossil-Fuel Growth Economy
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 [...]
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Beer Blockage
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 [...]
