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The Gulf Spill, One Year Later: Still a Good Reason to Get Off Oil 21 Apr 2011 | 07:35 am
Today marks one year since the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform blew up, killing eleven workers and initiating what’s been called the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. This week, news o...
"The Greenest Routes from A to B" 3/24 at MTU 16 Mar 2011 | 12:20 am
From pedestrian streets to urban bikesharing to modern streetcars to renewable fuels, innovative options for green travel are expanding around North America and the world. What makes these travel mode...
Transportation Transformation, Installment Three: Bikes Bikes Bikes Bikes 4 Feb 2011 | 11:59 am
A guest post by Nelson Sommerfeldt Bikes, my favorite mode of transport. To be honest, I have yet to fully embrace the bicycle as my primary vehicle. A few factors play into that. One, like most thin...
"Save the Planet One Trip at a Time" 1 Feb 2011 | 12:03 pm
In case you haven’t seen it yet, the latest essay recounting my particular approach to car divorce appeared in the December 2010 / January 2011 issue of The Progressive. “Save the Planet One Trip at a...
Transportation Transformation, Installment Two: Trains + Buses = Mobility 21 Oct 2010 | 03:29 am
A guest post by Nelson Sommerfeldt In my first installment, I introduced the Stockholm County public transportation system. It consists primarily of a complicated network of trains and buses that tho...
Transportation Transformation, Installment One: Welcome to Stockholm 29 Sep 2010 | 08:59 am
A guest post by Nelson Sommerfeldt Editor's note: Location and community design make a huge difference in our ability to live car-free. This July, Nelson and Melanie Sommerfeldt (pictured at right) b...
Celebrating World Carfree Day 23 Sep 2010 | 01:25 am
Happy World Carfree Day! Cruise the international news online, and you'll find evidence of some of the roughly 1,000 Carfree Day events being held today in a reported 40 countries around the globe. Ho...
Yet Another Reason to Divorce Your Car 31 Aug 2010 | 10:32 am
Alberta's Athabasca River runs through what once was a boreal wilderness, but is now the industrialized site of the world's largest energy project: Canada's oil sands, also known as tar sands. Every m...
Recovering from Oil Dependence: Urging the Feds to Get With the Program 21 Jul 2010 | 07:18 am
This is the last in a series of 30 blog posts about recovering from the Gulf oil spill and from oil dependency overall. The first introduces the series. For the 30th of my 30 posts in 30 days, I’m wr...
A Town Recovers from Oil Dependence, Part 4 20 Jul 2010 | 07:45 am
This is #29 in a series of blog posts about recovering from the Gulf oil spill and from oil dependency overall. The first introduces the series. In posts over the last few days, I’ve written of sever...
