Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Climate Change

NRDC Gives Gas Consumption Maps a Helpful Revision

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 5, 2012 | No Comments

The overwhelming sentiment that greeted our story on the gas consumption maps the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Sierra Club put out last week went something like this: These are almost useful. Just about everyone agreed that looking at total fuel consumption per county wasn’t very informative without weighing that number against population. There […]

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International Funders Shift Investments Toward Sustainable Transportation

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 13, 2012 | No Comments

If you think the United States is doing a bad job shifting toward sustainable transportation, take a look at the developing world. The places with the most to lose from auto-oriented development are doubling down on it — to the enormous detriment of their citizens, especially the poorest. The number of cars in the world […]

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Alex Steffen: We Can’t Avert Climate Change Without Dense Cities

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 9, 2011 | No Comments

Alex Steffen goes by the title “planetary futurist,” which makes me realize I should probably spruce up my title to something that makes me sound like I should be wearing a cape, too. What he does is write about sustainable cities, on WorldChanging.com for seven years and more recently in his book, Carbon Zero. He […]

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Poll: Republicans Support Transpo Policies to Avert Climate Change, Too

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 16, 2011 | No Comments

Judging from the current political discourse in Washington, you would guess we are a nation strongly divided on the issue of climate change. But you’d be wrong, according to a new poll from Yale University. A random survey of 1,010 adults found that 71 percent think that global warming should be a “very high,” “high” […]

Bloomberg in São Paulo: A Glimpse of the Green Mayor

By Noah Kazis | Jun 1, 2011 | 2 Comments

When it comes to sustainable transportation, Michael Bloomberg is saving his strongest words for an international audience. While the mayor’s rhetoric on transportation now tends to focus on safety, when transportation is on his agenda at all, at a meeting of the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group in São Paulo Bloomberg brought back some of […]

Green Shoots at NYSDOT

By Noah Kazis | Feb 4, 2011 | No Comments

Though New York is the least car-dependent state in the country, the state DOT isn’t known for championing for the state’s millions of non-drivers. In some corners of the large and decentralized agency, however, progressive ideas have taken root and new programs are being developed. At yesterday’s Rudin Center conference on livability, two DOT officials […]

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