Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Climate Change

Car-Free Manhattan: Just Wait 100 Years

By Aaron Naparstek | | 1 Comment
I just caught up with this article in the Times on Saturday about a competition for engineers and architects to envision New York City in 2106. Check out one of the winning design concepts: After the judges’ hasty deliberations, Daniel L. Doctoroff, the city’s deputy mayor for economic development, presented the prizes. He said his office […]

Cutting the Carbon and Enjoying the Scenery

By Jason Varone | | 5 Comments
As reported in last week’s New York Times: Eurostar, which runs the high-speed train service linking London to Paris and Brussels via the Channel Tunnel, has started running ads in travel trade publications asserting that a journey produces only one-tenth the carbon dioxide emissions of a comparable flight. Some of the ads include a drawing […]

Eat More Carbohydrates, Burn More Hydrocarbons

By Jason Varone | | 1 Comment
A forthcoming study by Sheldon H. Jacobson at the University of Illinois suggests that Americans’ expanding waistlines have significantly increased the amount of fuel we burn. Americans are now pumping 938 million gallons of fuel more annually than they were in 1960 as a result of extra weight in vehicles. And when gas prices average […]

Bloomberg Sustainability Announcement

By Aaron Naparstek | | 8 Comments
As we reported this morning, Mayor Bloomberg is in California with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to make a major policy announcement on a major, long-term, environmental sustainability initiative. The key components of the Mayor’s plan include: The creation of the Office of Long-term Planning and Sustainability. The undertaking of a major greenhouse gas inventory for City […]
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