Green Transportation

Convoys May Replace Carpools As A Greener Way To Travel

EcoSalon | Liz Lewis | Posted 11.24.2009 | Green


The project, based on the concept of linking vehicles together using wireless sensors, is aimed at finding an inexpensive and environmentally friendly...

Transit Systems Are Turning To Hybrid Buses

nytimes.com | MICHELINE MAYNARD | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green


Transit systems from New York to Taipei, and from Ames, Iowa, to Ann Arbor, Mich., are adding hybrid buses at a rapid clip. New York, by far, has the ...

No Impact Week: Transportation

Huffington Post | Matthew Palevksy | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green


HuffPost's No Impact Week is here, where together with the No Impact Project we're examining and reducing our environmental footprint. Click here to f...

Will E-Bikes Be The New 'Commuter Cool'?

cnn.com | Steve Almasy CNN | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green


Electric bikes are still somewhat of a novelty in the United States, but in China they're everywhere. In fact, Chinese electric bikes number more tha...

Seven Ways Americans Are Kicking Their Gas-Guzzling Habit

Tara Lohan | Posted 09.30.2009 | Green


Tara Lohan

With gas mileage near the bottom of the heap -- 15 miles per gallon in the city and around 20 on the highway -- trucks are icons of America's suicidal obsession with gas guzzlers.

The Greenbird: Is Wind-Powered Transportation The Way Of The Future? (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Barbara Fenig | Posted 09.28.2009 | Green


The Greenbird, a land and ice craft vehicle that is powered solely by wind, is a pioneering hybrid vehicle for zero carbon transportation. Designed by...

Study: Cyclists Cause Less Than Ten Percent of All Car And Bike Accidents

Treehugger | Lloyd Alter | Posted 09.23.2009 | Green


Whenever we write about bike/car "interactions" we get a lot of complaints that cyclists bring much of this upon themselves by blowing through red lig...

Copenhagen To Spend $47 Million To Build Bicycle Superhighways

Treehugger | Lloyd Alter | Posted 09.22.2009 | Green


"Each and every day 500,000 people ride their bicycle to work or school in Copenhagen." Whereas in North America we are, as one writer puts it, "figh...

Sarah Palin's Fall Speaking Tour

Patti Prairie | Posted 09.03.2009 | Green


Patti Prairie

While one's individual actions -- such as bringing one less bag next time they have to fly -- might seem incidental for any given person, the collective force of a country of people all making small choices can be astonishing.

Schweeb: Is The Human-Powered Monorail The Transportation Of The Future? (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Barbara Fenig | Posted 08.23.2009 | Green


The Schweeb, the world's only human powered monorail, is a futuristic attempt at eco-friendly transportation. These pedal powered pods resemble a recu...

Green Gondola Considered For Inter-Campus Transit In Colorado

coloradodaily.com | Posted 05.07.2009 | Green


The aerial people movers could be decorated with Buffs logos and could zip fans to football games at Folsom Field, he said. A separate line could even...

Five Greener Green Stimulus Ideas

Graham Hill | Posted 04.15.2009 | Green


Graham Hill

Shovel-ready is what everyone seems to want Obama's green stimulus plan projects to be. As in projects that are ready to go right now, today, 2009. As...

Tata Shall Lead Us

Matthew DeBord | Posted 12.05.2008 | Green


Matthew DeBord

India's Tata Motors represents a modern-day version of what Detroit could have become if it had begun to adjust its products to obviously impending future needs back in the 1970s.

Bike-Sharing Around The World

TreeHugger.com | Andrew Posner | Posted 04.17.2009 | Green


What is Bike-Sharing? If you are at all familiar with the Zip Car model of car-sharing, then you should already undersand how bike-sharing works. Esse...