Elijah ChilandAug 26, 2019, 3:55pm PDT Lined with trendy restaurants, beloved neighborhood businesses, and a handful of historic monuments, the stretch of Sunset Boulevard between Echo Park and East Hollywood is one of the most recognizable corridors in Los Angeles. It could also become a prime bike corridor. A campaign called Sunset4All seeks to reconfigure… [Read More]
In Greenland’s Melting Ice, A Warning on Hard Climate Choices – Yale E360
Greenland is melting at an unprecedented rate, causing vast quantities of ice to disappear and global sea levels to rise. The fate of the ice sheet is not sealed, but unless CO2 emissions are sharply cut, the long-term existence of Greenland’s ice is in doubt. By Jon Gertner • June 27, 2019 Greenland is melting… [Read More]
How investing in cycling makes sense and makes money
By DuncanDollimore Friday, 23 August 2019 You can think what you like about whether we should invest more in cycling and walking, but is that opinion based on fact or fiction? Cycling UK’s Head of Campaigns Duncan Dollimore suggests the facts are clear – investing in active travel is an economic no-brainer – so why… [Read More]
Four wheels bad, but three sehr gut. Germans climb aboard cargo bikes | The Guardian
Philip OltermannSun 25 Aug 2019 08.59 BST As Berlin tries to switch to greener transport, people are choosing the bike, not the electric car – and it’s becoming a status symbol In a fashionable corner of the capital of Germany, Europe’s “car nation”, parents picking up or dropping off their offspring have lined the edge… [Read More]
David Wallace-Wells: ‘There are many cases of climate hypocrisy’ | The Guardian
Ian TuckerSun 25 Aug 2019 07.00 BST The journalist and author on the climate crisis and how the US and China will be key to averting disaster David Wallace-Wells: ‘Incremental policy isn’t going to be adequate to avoid terrible levels of warming.’ David Wallace-Wells is the deputy editor of New York magazine. In July 2017,… [Read More]
Brazil’s indigenous people swear to fight for Amazon ‘to last drop of blood’
1 / 6 Indigenous people from the Mura tribe show a deforested area in unmarked indigenous lands inside the Amazon rainforest near Humaita By Jake Spring CANUTAMA, Brazil (Reuters) – Members of Brazil’s Mura indigenous tribe painted their bodies with orange-red paint and took up long bows and clubs as they headed into the jungle… [Read More]
David Hembrow – A view from the cycle path: The car-free myth. The Netherlands is a great country to live in if you’re car-free, but it’s a very long way from being a car-free country. Dutch car ownership and use are at an all time high.
Saturday, 24 August 2019) A myth has grown up about the Dutch being enthusiastic cyclists who live in green cities and rarely drive. In reality, the majority of journeys are made by motorized vehicles and people who live car-free are in a small and shrinking minority. A life without motorized vehicles Over the last year… [Read More]
UK should cut vehicle use to hit zero-carbon target, say MPs | The Guardian
Scathing report says Tory governments have held back progress on clean energy goals Jonathan WattsThu 22 Aug 2019 06.00 BST Based on expert testimony, MPs found little progress had been made since the 2008 Climate Change Act. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA The government should discourage personal vehicle use and reward energy-efficient homebuilding to meet its legally… [Read More]
Ditch cars to meet climate change targets, say MPs – BBC News
By Roger Harrabin BBC environment analyst People will have to get out of their cars if the UK is to meet its climate change targets, MPs say.The Science and Technology Select Committee says technology alone cannot solve the problem of greenhouse gas emissions from transport. It says the government cannot achieve sufficient emissions cuts by… [Read More]
Raise car fuel prices to fight air pollution, says rightwing thinktank | The Guardian
Damian CarringtonMon 12 Aug 2019 06.30 BST Bright Blue calls for zero VAT on electric cars and rewards for reporting idling vehicles The report said the freeze on fuel duty rises should end as it contributed to an increase of traffic by 4%. Photograph: milehightraveler/Getty Images Vehicle fuel taxes should rise to combat the air… [Read More]