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Bicycle Fixation: Bicycling and the New Civility
They can still make money putting hybrids on the roads. What they really fear is not emission regulations or fuel-efficiency standards, but mass transit, high- speed rail, human-scale development, and anything else that cuts against the carefully cultivated grain of private automobile dependency.
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Bicycle Fixation: Subsidy-Switching: We Can Do It Now
(Commercial vehicles pay higher taxes, often on a per-mile basis.) In Europe, gas ... are borne by all; The alienation of people from their communities when they are forced into private cars and freeway channels by lack of alternatives, and their alienation from their families, caused by ...
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EcoFuture (TM): Things You Can Do Today
EcoFuture Home In your car... Whenever possible use alternatives to the private automobile: use public transit, ride your bike, or walk instead. Use carpools when public transportation is ... the most benefit, and allows us to compare the damage done in some areas (like poor automobile maintenance) with the benefits we build up in other areas (like careful shopping and recycling). ...
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Insidious Subsidies Granted to the Automobile
Laurent Street Santa Cruz, California 95060 Phone: (831) 425-1211 In the century since the automobile became a reality, it has literally changed the face of the earth. Pavement crisscrosses the ... or a tram or a train service, into an urban structure which was urbanized not around "public transportation," but around the "private automobile." Few people realize, however, the extent to which the ...
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PCJ Article 151: Ten Events That Shaped the 20th Century American City
Many of the residential trolley corridors of the early 1900s became strip commercial corridors when the private automobile replaced the station-stop focused trolley car. 4. 1893: The Columbian Exposition 5. 1908: Introduction of the inexpensive automobile 6. 1916: Adoption of the New York City Zoning Code 7. 1929: The stock market crash 8. 1940- ...
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Preservation Institute: Transportation and Development Politics
Stopping Suburban Sprawl: Suburbanization drains the vitality of older neighborhoods and creates endless urbanized regions that are dependent on the private automobile. This page lists groups working to stop sprawl. Stopping Superstores and Chains: Large scale superstores and chain stores displace independent shopkeepers who are a mainstay of ...
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Preservation Institute: Transportation and Development Politics
Stopping Suburban Sprawl Suburbanization drains the vitality of older neighborhoods and creates endless urbanized regions that are dependent on the private automobile. This page lists groups working to stop sprawl. CEDS (Community & Environmental Defense Services): This is where to go if you are working locally against unsustainable development. They ...
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Greenpeace's Rex Weyler: Prescriptions for Survival in the Post-Peak Oil Era
San Luis Obispo, California have shown that degraded cities can revitalize community and economic life with programs that increase green space. Public transport: Basing development and land-use patterns on the private automobile may be the worst design decision in human history. The automobile is responsible for resource depletion, global warming, degraded farmland, alienated neighbourhoods, ...
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Climate VISION: Private Sector Initiatives: Automobile Manufacturers
PDF documents. Download Acrobat Reader Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers Commitment Letter (PDF 77 KB) Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers Response to DOE's Business Challenge (PDF 326 KB) | Security and Privacy Notices [Presidential Statements | Program Mission | How to Participate | Private Sector Initiatives] [Resources & Links | Technology Pathways | News & Events] How to Participate | ...
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Climate VISION: Private Sector Initiatives: Automobile Manufacturers: Technology Pathways
Climate VISION: Private Sector Initiatives: Automobile Manufacturers: Technology Pathways Home: Private Sector Initiatives: Automobile Manufacturers: Technology Pathways AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURERS Letters of Intent/ Agreements Work Plans GHG Information Resources & Links Results Technology Pathways News & Events Contacts Technology Pathways This area is currently under development. Please check ...
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