Many American cities are taking a car-centric approach to improving traffic flow and accommodate drivers. Across the pond, Europe is using a different tactic: creating environments openly hostile to cars. The aim is to make car use expensive and inconvenient so that people choose more environmentally friendly modes of transportation. Here’s a look at some [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Carless Cities’
Five Friday Facts: Cars in European Life
August 5th, 2011 
Justin Manger 
Posted in Behavior, Five Friday Facts, Justin Manger, Transportation 
Tags: Bike Sharing, Carbon Dioxide, Carless Cities, Cars, Public Transit 
No Comments »Making Road Construction More Environmentally Friendly
July 9th, 2011 Eric Wilson Let’s face it, there’s nothing really sustainable about the current transportation sector in this country. While bike sharing programs and walkable, carless cities have emerged both domestically and abroad, the reliance on infrastructure – namely roads and rails, not to mention air travel – alone comes at a great cost to both the pocket book [...]
Posted in Economics, Eric Wilson, Recylcing, Sustainability, Transportation Tags: Bike Sharing, Carless Cities, Coal, Environment, Lifecycle, Natural Gas, Solar Roadways, USGBC No Comments »June 2010 Clean Energy and Sustainability Events
June 1st, 2010 Eric Wilson With the launch of our new site, we also have a new feature on the right side of our homepage. Under “Events” is a list of the “Green Events Calendar” which can also be opened in its own page. Below are a handful of exciting conferences, seminars, and workshops in the month of June. There [...]
Posted in Education, Eric Wilson Tags: AASHE, Biomimicry, Calendar, Carless Cities, Emory 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 »American Cities Hope to Entice Pedestrians with Carless Districts
June 3rd, 2009 Eric Wilson Following the recent trend of cities such as Vauban, outside of Freiburg, Germany, New York City has been decreasing automobile traffic in midtown Manhattan. With the goal of making Times Square (and surrounding areas such as Herald Square) more pedestrian friendly, vehicular traffic has been permanently suspended on Broadway, which cuts across Times Square. On [...]
Posted in Business, Eric Wilson, Transportation Tags: Bicycles, Carless Cities, Cars, New York City, Santa Barbara No Comments »Masdar Initiative Update: Abu Dhabi’s Bold Bid for a Zero-Emissions City
March 17th, 2009 Justin Manger Located in the Middle East and next to Saudi Arabia, oil wealth has given the United Arab Emirates (UAE) the money to plan one of the most audacious clean technology projects in the world. Already thinking ahead, the UAE knows that oil revenue will dry up when the wells do and is planning for that [...]
The Masdar Initiative: Abu Dhabi’s Zero-Waste City?
January 28th, 2009 admin One of the seven states that make up the United Arab Emirates (UAE) along the Persian Gulf, Abu Dhabi has grown prosperous through oil and gas production. While not as well known as Dubai, UAE’s headline-grabbing desert boomtown building palm shaped islands visible from space, Abu Dhabi has shown that it can think big. In [...]
