Despite downtown business fears, some urban centers embrace “mini-parks.”
Josie GarthwaiteFor National Geographic News
Bit by bit, for the past 40 years, the city of Copenhagen has done something revolutionary: The Danish capital has reduced its parking supply. Cutting the total number of parking ...
To get citizens out of their cars and onto a newly-opened public trolley system, the city of Murcia, Spain recently embarked on a rather radical campaign: it offered people lifetime trolley passes in exchange for permanently relinquishing their cars.
Despite the growing popularity of hybrid and ele...
BY Ariel Schwartz
Many major cities have seen a decline in driving over the past few years. The reasons for this are varied, but if it's a continuing trend, it's going to mean drastic changes for the way we shape our cities.
Even major oil companies admit that we are reaching peak oil--the point w...
Global warming over the next 40 years will cut through Arctic transportation networks like a double-edged sword, limiting access in certain areas and vastly increasing it in others, a new UCLA study predicts.
"As sea ice continues to melt, accessibility by sea will increase, but the viabi...
AS THE PRICE OF OIL roars above $100 per barrel and gasoline nears $4 per gallon, a cry for solutions understandably goes up. Higher gas prices amount to a regressive tax increase on the American consumer, with all that implies for the ability of the U.S. and global economies to sustain thei...
High gas prices mean less demand and less pollution at least in theory, right? Not necessarily, finds Mark Jansen. Our relationship with our cars is far more complex... High petrol prices are bad news for drivers, which means almost all of us, but those who care about carbon emissions...
There seem to be few Londoners left who still battle with public transport and are yet to be converted to the cycling revolution. Either they feel that work is a little 'too far' to arrive there solely under their own steam or they believe that getting on a bike is certainly going to end w...
The US EPA is the source of most air quality impact assessment models used in the US for regulatory purposes, such as predicting the potential impacts from proposed stationary sources of air pollutants and mobile sources such as motor vehicles. Since motor vehicle emissions vary with regulatory chan...
I read a couple of articles this morning talking about the environmentally irresponsible behavior of the VIPs attending the conference in Copenhagen this week.
- More private planes than the city's airport can handle.
- Over a thousand limos needed, hundreds of which had to be driven hundreds of m...
China and US cooperation in promoting such vehicles is a concrete step against global warming. But how to measure claims in miles "per gallon"? As the two largest carbon polluters, China and the US have yet to agree on much before the international conference on global warming in Copenhagen next wee...
It's an unseasonably cool day in August, and I'm screaming down a twisty, two-lane road nestled in the driver's seat of a silver 1966 Porsche 911. The Porsche's owner is riding shotgun, shirt collar popped, trying to look nonchalant as I bring the revs up and shift into third.
The trees blur.
"The...
Two German ships set off on Friday on the first commercial journey from Asia to western Europe via the Arctic through the fabled Northeast Passage – a trip made possible by climate change.
August 22nd, 2009
Niels Stolberg, president and CEO of Bremen-based Beluga Shipping, said the Northern Sea Ro...
A partnership of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the International Energy Agency (IEA), the International Transport Forum (ITF) and FIA Foundation is launching the Global Fuel Economy Initiative (GFEI) at the upcoming Geneva motor show.
The “50 by 50” effort calls for cars worldwide to be made...
A hydrogen concept car that attempts to sidestep the three main hurdles to the dream of hydrogen-fuelled highways has been unveiled in London, UK.
The car weighs 772 pounds and can travel 186 miles on just 2.2 pounds of liquid hydrogen.
The Riversimple Urban Car fuel cell combines hydrogen with ox...
Baby Beetles Inspires Mini Boat Powered By Surface Tension
Inspired by the aquatic wriggling of beetle larvae, a University of Pittsburgh research team has designed a propulsion system that strips away paddles, sails, and motors and harnesses the energy within the water's surface. The technique des...
CLIMATE SCIENCETransport ministers plot climate action in Japan
Nations have already been toughening standards for car emissions -- decisions mostly taken before the current economic crisis which has battered the auto industry.by Staff WritersTokyo (AFP) Jan 15, 2009
Officials from 20 nations met ...
We can help our pocket books and the environment by driving green according to The Denver Post article by John Ingold. He drew his tips from EcoDriving Campaign.
Here are the highights-Smooth and Steady-use cruise control, no rapid starts and stops, maintain steady speed
Avoid idling-total waste a...
