Vespa

No Impact Week: A Few Thoughts on Getting from Here to There

Molly Greenwood | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green


Molly Greenwood

Instead of buying a new car, I bought a Vespa. And you know what? It has turned out to be the perfect complement to my alternative transportation lifestyle.

Seven Ways Americans Are Kicking Their Gas-Guzzling Habit

Tara Lohan | Posted 11.30.2009 | 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.

A Clunky Way to Spend Billions

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 07.24.2009 | Green


Charles Karel Bouley

The recent Cash for Clunker legislation passed by Congress as part of the $106 billion war funding bill is a complete and total waste of a billion dollars short term, four billion long term.

In Gas Crisis, Buyers Turn To Scooters

New York Times | Jennifer 8. Lee | Posted 06.12.2008 | Green


Bicyclists in New York are known to possess an evangelical fervor. (What other mode of transportation has its own self-declared celebratory month? Ima...

Mickey Rourke Gets DUI On A Scooter

TMZ | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment


Actor Mickey Rourke was arrested for DUI this morning in Miami Beach, riding his blue-green Vespa. Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, is that you?!...