In a recent study out of the University of Toronto comes the startling revelation that “if you build it they will come.” While the line comes from Field of Dreams, the study’s findings say as much. The study’s official title, The Fundamental Law of Road Congestion: Evidence from US cities, demonstrates that increasing the volume [...]
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More Roads Makes More Traffic
July 24th, 2011 
Eric Wilson 
Posted in Behavior, Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Op-Ed, Transportation 
Tags: Bus, Cars, Los Angeles, Public Transit 
No Comments »The Hidden Benefits of “Alternative Transportation”
May 22nd, 2011 Eric Wilson Siting in the car is perhaps the least productive time of my day. My wife and I “only” drove a combined 6,000 miles in the past year, but the time behind the wheel served a singular purpose, to get to some other location. In the past year (since we bought our car), I’ve walked to [...]
Posted in Behavior, Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Op-Ed, Transportation Tags: Bicycles, Bus, Cars, Denver, Food, Google, iPod/iPhone App, Public Transit 1 Comment »Site Visit: Alliance for Sustainable Colorado
March 23rd, 2011 Eric Wilson I recently had the opportunity to take two tours of 1536 Wynkoop St in the Lower Downtown section of Denver. A hundred year old brick building that began as a warehouse, the structure is now home to some 38 non-profit organizations and the Alliance for Sustainable Colorado. According to the tour guide, the building was [...]
Posted in Conservation, Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson, Green Building, Site Visits, Sustainability Tags: AASHE, Biomimicry, Bus, Chemicals, Colorado, Denver, Interface, LEED, Trains, Water, Water Conservation No Comments »Looking Back as We Move Forward
February 27th, 2011 Eric Wilson I often wonder how we got to the point where so many of our possessions became regarded as disposable. In an effort to live more sustainably, it is time to consider some of the habits that western society has discarded and others maintain. Chief among these are our use of disposable products. While the convenience [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Op-Ed, Sustainability, Transportation Tags: Bus, Cloth Diapers, Denver, Environment, Landfill, Waste No Comments »Using GPS to Catch The Bus
June 10th, 2010 Eric Wilson Although technology has yet to provide the “holy grail” of clean energy or efficiency, companies like Bloom Energy and products like the smart meter may help lay the foundation of a clean energy future. A recent story from public radio international’s Marketplace introduces (brings up) an existing technology that may increase public transportation ridership while [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Transportation Tags: Bloom Energy, Bus, Holy Grail, iPod/iPhone App, Public Transit, Smart Meter, Washington DC No Comments »Poll: How Do You Get To Work?
October 6th, 2009 Eric Wilson Here at 2nd Green Revolution, we think about transportation, smart growth, and walkable/carless cities. After watching No Impact Man last week, we decided to resurrect a poll that had been on the shelf for a while. Take a moment to tell us how you commute to work. If you use a combination of these forms, [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Polls, Sustainable Development, Transportation Tags: Bus, Carless Cities, Smart Growth, Trains No Comments »Recap of Wednesday’s NPR Series on High Speed Rail
September 5th, 2009 Eric Wilson Wednesday’s story from National Public Radio week long series on High Speed Rail focused on so-called multimodal design or transportation. This idea goes beyond the rail system and into what happens when riders get off the rail. A major concern for commuters and rail riders is the complete public transportation equation. Once riders arrive at [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Transportation Tags: Bus, High Speed Rail, Portland-Oregon, Public Transit, Saint Louis Missouri, Stimulus Bill, Trains No Comments »Why Sustainable Development Has Failed
July 19th, 2009 Eric Wilson Late last month I attended the National Association of Independent School’s Institute for Leadership in Sustainability. As part of the conference, most of the attendees stayed at a hotel near the airport which had a shuttle back and forth to the airport. In addition, the host of the institute – Woodward Academy – provided a [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Op-Ed, Sustainable Development, Transportation Tags: Bus, Los Angeles, NAIS, New York City, Public Transit, Trains No Comments »
