As the largest industry in the world and employing over 11% of the world's workforce, tourism has the ability to significantly reduce carbon emissions through their building, transportation, and energy policies and programs.
The Blue Community initiative has developed 12 strategies or coastal habitat and marine environment protection for the tourism industry. Three of the...
Last year, 20,000 students hopped on bicycles and rode to the No. 1 most eco-friendly school, according to SIERRA magazine's sixth annual ranking of A...
Nations such as South Korea, Japan, and China are aggressively investing billions of dollars in research and development and incentivizing deployment of EVs to capture large shares in this growing worldwide sector. We should too.
AOL's Translogic recently visited Paris to test out the city's two vehicle sharing programs, and as host Bradley Hasemeyer explains, "It's a great thi...
Given that we are facing an obesity epidemic, car-driven pollution, climate change, and a damaging dependency on foreign oil, tripling the budget for bike and walkways would make sense.
Policies that are good for bicyclists actually benefit everyone on the streets. Good conditions for bicycling also create good conditions for pedestrians. And what makes the streets safer for bikes, also makes them safer for motorists.
The U.S. consumes about 6.5 billion barrels of oil a year. About 60 percent of it is imported. Getting rid of these imports would have had the same impact in 2010 as a $300 billion dollar tax cut on American consumers and the American economy.
In this video, a BBC News correspondent tests a new electric vehicle from Mitsubishi, and visits one of the plug-in charging stations in a growing net...
Big Oil and its proxies hate alternative energy and energy efficiency. Do you think they'd be kicking and screaming to stop progress if they didn't see a threat to their bottom line?
The YikeBike was given its name because, according to the creator, people react to this new mode of transportation by exclaiming, "Yikes!"
The YikeBi...
If we want our automotive present to be more like our imagined automotive future, one in which we suffer from less traffic and less pollution, we have to get real.
There are cars that run on gas, electricity, vegetable oil, even human waste, and now there is a car that runs on air.
The AirPod has been created in...
One of the allures of time-off travel is that on vacation we slip more easily into Deep Travel, and notice more than normal, giving the people and places we encounter an intensity and glow.
POO POWER! GENeco, a waste treatment company in Bristol, UK set out to prove that bio-gas could be a reliable alternative transportation fuel, so they...
Eco-friendly transportation is no longer merely a fad but now a necessity in greening our lives. Whether your green transportation of choice is your ...
Not surprisingly, when I am asked to participate in professional conferences, the requests center on Ford's view of the future of transportation. It's...