Transportation

Cycling Is To Transportation As Efficiency Is To Energy

Treehugger | Andrew Posner | Posted 08.05.2008 | Green

Read More: Bike Culture, Gas Prices, Energy Efficiency, Public Transportation, Bike to Work, Green, Environment, Green Living, Green Energy, Bike, Transportation, Green News

Until the recent spike in gas prices, much of the discussion about solving our transportation problems--namely, emissions from cars and dependence on ...

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CarSharing 2.0: Give Us Many Transportation Options (Please!)

Graham Hill | Posted 08.05.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Transportation, Biking, Biofuel, Bicycles, Fuel Efficiency, Cars, Bike, Hybrid Cars, Carbon Emissions, Reducing Carbon Emissions, Carbon Footprint, Green Living, Green News
Graham Hill

Do you find yourself using a big car or truck when something smaller would do the job? Would you book an electric bike or golf cart or folding bike to cut your carbon footprint?

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Little Progress Since Bridge Collapse

AP | ROBERT TANNER, STEVE KARNOWSKI and FRANK BASS | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Minneapolis Bridge, Minneapolis Bridge Collapse, Infrastructure, Transportation, Bridge Repair, Infrastructure Repair, Politics News

MINNEAPOLIS — A year after the worst U.S. bridge collapse in a generation brought calls for immediate repairs to other spans, two of every three...

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Least Walkable Cities

Treehugger | Kenny Luna | Posted 07.21.2008 | Green

Read More: Gas Prices, Least Walkable Cities, Walking, Global Warming Solutions, Walkable Cities, Commuting, Transportation, Green News

When Walk Score recently released their ranking of the ten most walkable U.S. cities there was no doubt that folks in places like San Francisco, Bos...

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Energy Crisis Or Transportation Crisis?

Treehugger | Lloyd Alter | Posted 07.16.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy Crisis, Transportation Crisis, Energy Efficiency, Biofuels, Fuel Efficiency, Global Warming, Biodiesel, Transportation, Cars, Green News

Our favorite graph, which demonstrates that almost all of our petroleum is used for transportation. Benjamin J. Turon writes an op-ed in the Schene...

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Five (New) Rules for Driving Green

Starre Vartan | Posted 07.14.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Driving, Parenting, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Footprint, Transportation, Green News
Starre Vartan

For whatever reason, you can't quite give that fossil fuel fiend sitting in the garage up completely.

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Bikes Help L.A. Commuters Get Around Gas Prices

Los Angeles Times | Leslie Earnest | Posted 07.08.2008 | Green

Read More: Gas Prices, Bike Culture Los Angeles, Biking, Green Commuting, Commuting, Green Living, Pollution, Transportation, Bike Culture, Bike, Green News

High gasoline prices are fueling bicycle sales, and on some days Michael Hall's blood pressure. At least three times a week, Hall pedals to his job i...

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When Ugly Is Greener

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 06.25.2008 | Green

Read More: Tel Aviv, Going Green, Design, Green, Israel, Bicycling, Green Living, Treehugger, Transportation, Bike, Green News
Karin Kloosterman

I've gone through about seven different bikes in as many years. The relative speed at which each bike was stolen was related to how beautiful it was.

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The Greatest Inventions of the Past 100 Years

Jay Walljasper | Posted 06.23.2008 | Green

Read More: Bicycling, Green Living, Transportation, The Green Life, Urban Planning, Bike Trails, Urban Cycling, Commuting, Green News
Jay Walljasper

I live a short ride away from one of the best network of urban bike trails in the country -- it's boosted biking so much that Minneapolis now trails only Portland in commuters who bike to work.

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Water-Fueled Car Too Good To Be True?

Treehugger | Michael Graham Richard | Posted 06.18.2008 | Green

Read More: Science, Cars, Japan, Technology, GenePax Water Car, Transportation, Green News

Water-Powered Cars Like clockwork, every time oil prices shoot up journalists scramble for stories about energy, and a few water-powered cars and ...

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Another "Benefit" From $200 Oil...

Perry Yeatman | Posted 06.16.2008 | Business

Read More: Oil, Kraft Foods, Perry Yeatman, International, Transportation, Business News
Perry Yeatman

There was a fair amount of reaction to my last blog about the potential benefits of $200 oil. Most of the negativity centered around the fact that ma...

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Tackling Higher Energy Prices, One Subway Line at the Time

Jeremy Jacquot | Posted 06.15.2008 | Green

Read More: Gas Prices, Economy, Subway, Transportation, Green News
Jeremy Jacquot

These are heady days for mass transit. As gas prices continue their inexorable rise, public transit ridership has experienced its own mini-boom, with ...

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Oh Please: Chrysler Offering $2.99 Gas

Jessica Jensen | Posted 06.09.2008 | Green

Read More: Green, Gas, Chrysler, Global Warming, Automotive, Auto, Transportation, Green News
Jessica Jensen

Chrysler has recently launched its "Let's Refuel America" campaign in which it claims to offer Americans protection from rising gas prices. Anyone buy...

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Rebuilding America's Transportation Infrastructure

Steven G. Brant | Posted 01.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Infrastructure, Obama, Clinton, Transportation, Politics News
Steven G. Brant

I am at "Moving America Forward?": A Presidential Candidates Forum on Transportation and Infrastructure, moderated by Samuel I. Schwartz and Sponsored...

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The Ten Best Public Policies of 2007

Andrea Batista Schlesinger | Posted 12.27.2007 | Politics

Read More: Russ Feingold, Minnesota, Martin O'Malley, Maryland, Michael Bloomberg, Subway, DC Voting Rights, Efca, New Haven, 2007, Immigration, Policy, Denver, New York City, Transportation, Labor, Subprime Mortgages, Courts, Maine, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Drum Major Institute, Health Care, San Francisco, Politics News
Andrea Batista Schlesinger

From DMI's Year In Review 2007 1. Arbitrary Dispute Resolution The Seventh Amendment hasn't been repealed. So how did Americans lose the right to tr...

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