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Want a safe place to raise kids? Look to the cities
Cities might be enriching and green and beneficial for kids in all kinds of ways. But what most parents want to know is, are they safe? The answer is that there is nothing inherently dangerous about cities. On the contrary.
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Beijing's booming car ownership creates traffic nightmare
The Chinese government has made it easy for people to buy and drive cars. Now, the nation's capital city is choking on them.
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Top 10 green stories of 2010
From California to China, Bill Clinton to Jonathan Franzen, Monsanto to BP, denial to death, here are the stories that mattered most this year.
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Rent a stranger’s car (or rent out yours) with RelayRides
Think ZipCar minus the communal cars, and you've got RelayRides. You can rent out your vehicle for an hour or find a ride nearby if you're carless.
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New report on state transportation policy shows a long road ahead
The best hope for reforms that would lead to a reduction in carbon emissions from transportation might lie with the states. Emphasis on might.
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Making car-sharing a carbon-sharing service
The internet has brought us peer-to-peer music sharing and peer-to-peer lending. Now get ready for peer-to-peer car sharing.
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Watch the trailer for 'Revenge of the Electric Car' [VIDEO]
Watch the movie trailer for "Revenge of the Electric Car," the sequel to 2006's "Who Killed the Electric Car?" from filmmaker Chris Paine.
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Helping Chinese consumers buy sustainable cars
A new website, GreenCarChina.org, rates cars on efficiency and sustainability -- info that's never before been readily available in China.
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My complicated love affair with a little gray Honda
With car ownership came a nagging suspicion that I was on the wrong side of a Big Issue. My purist environmentalist friends were sure about it: Anyone who gets angry about the wars over oil, they told me, can't have a car and a clean conscience at the same time. I didn't know if it was so simple.
