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Don’t believe the hype. The GM Volt plug-in hybrid electric vehicle is a threat to those who care about livability, equality and the planet.
For over 1300 days GM has touted the Volt and its ability to run for 40 miles on electricity before switching to a gasoline engine. In January 2007 the Financial Times concluded [...]
Now you can download issue #40 of Carbusters as a pdf, amongst others this issue contains an interview with Eric Britton on World Carfree Day, a public transportation special and an article on cars and the economy.
Don’t miss that you can download our whole back archive – all issues prior to #41 – in the [...]
Can a car owner belong to the World Carfree Network…or would that be hypocritical? This is a question I have heard from people…if I still drive, if I still like my car, but I agree with some or most of what WCN is all about, can I still be a member? Is it possible and [...]
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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 [...]
World Carfree Network arranged a youth exchange in York, England the week before the Towards Carfree Cities conference. Find out more about this on the web site of the youth exchange 3e2010.org
Now you can download issue #39 of Carbusters as a pdf, amongst others this issue contains an article on Auto*Mat, a China special, an article on Critical Mass and a celebration of carfree cartoons. Don’t miss that you can download our whole back archive – all issues prior to #40 – in the footer here [...]
The bicycle is a small and very versatile mean of transportation. To make your restaurant, supermarket, parking lot or store into a bike friendly place is very easy. But depending on your concern, it’s possible to make some bigger changes in order to be able to welcome cyclists as first class clients. You can [...]
I have taken to wearing an anti-pollution mask when I ride my bike in city traffic and I encourage other cyclists to adopt my fashion statement. Unfortunately the harmony between fashion and function is blurred when it comes to pollution masks. From the oxygen ventilator to the industrial dust mask, function tends to win out [...]
A few days ago my friend Jesús Soto from Ciudad Para Todos came back from the conference “Car Free Cities” held in the city of York, UK. During this event he took the opportunity to interview experts on urban development after showing them a video from the government of the Mexican state Jalisco, [...]
Recently while in New Mexico I had the great pleasure of taking the Roadrunner Express, between Albuquerque and Santa Fe. I had read about it, and was eager to have the experience of going to that beautiful city, by train rather than car, and of experiencing not the highway and its traffic but rather the grand [...]
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