transportation
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New transportation bill strays offtrack
A transportation bill should make investments in infrastructure repair, not cut funding.
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Gigantic, gorgeous visualization of humanity's transport footprint on planet Earth
It's the Atlantic, as you've never seen it before: Cities are red, shipping routes blue, roads green and air networks in white. Click on the image to see the full map of the entire planet.
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When it comes to green, what you buy matters more than where you live
Get off your high horse, New Yorkers! City dwellers might do some environmental good by driving less and living in smaller spaces. But living in a city doesn't affect a person's carbon footprint as much as the amount that he or she buys.
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Cars vs. bulldozers: a look at road construction GHGs
Photo: Joost J. Bakker IJmuidenThis post originally appeared on Sightline Institute’s blog. Here’s an interesting study (not free, unfortunately) by University of Washington engineering professor Stephen Muench, reviewing the literature on the energy and CO2 impacts of road construction. His study looks mostly at the construction phase itself, rather than the use of the road. […]
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Car costs may make it harder to save
Keeping money in the bank isn't easy when you're sinking dollars into your four wheels.
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EcoCar winner produces totally normal car that gets 81 MPG
Because Americans are big babies who would rather strangle their economy with energy shortages than drive a car that is even vaguely weird, the Department of Energy's EcoCar challenge asked a bunch of universities to build the most energy efficient car possible using a stock General Motors body and a bunch of fairly typical parts. -
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Older Americans could be stranded without better transit
As the huge baby boom generation gets older, our auto-dependent society will have to adapt, a new report argues.
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Stopping pollution that causes asthma attacks
“Air pollution is especially dangerous to children because their lungs are still growing.” I heard those words earlier this week while listening to the Senate Environment and Public Works’ subcommittee hearing entitled “Air Quality and Children’s Health.” They were from Dr. Dona Upson of the American Lung Association in New Mexico, and though I’ve heard […]
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Chris Christie systematically destroys all environmental progress in New Jersey
For a while there, New Jersey was doing pretty well on the environmental front, for a state better known for its landfills and gazillion-lane highways than its farms and increasingly rare open spaces. But Chris Christie is working his butt off to make sure that changes. It's not just that he thinks it's normal to […]
