Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Energy

Resolved: More Driving for Teachers, Less for Everyone Else

By Brad Aaron | Jan 18, 2008 | 15 Comments

Another DOE employee not abusing a parking placard, courtesy Uncivil Servants Following United Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten’s "deeply troubling" letter to Mayor Bloomberg earlier this month protesting the city’s directive to reduce parking placard issues by 20 percent, this week UFT chapter leaders and delegates approved a resolution not only demanding an exemption […]

Is Barack Obama the Livable Streets Candidate?

By Jason Varone | Jan 2, 2008 | 19 Comments

Barack Obama is a long-time cyclist (Photo: Chicago Tribune) The current crop of Presidential candidates are busy debating the energy crisis, national security, climate change, health care, all of which potentially pose a serious threat to America’s future. We can begin to address all of these issues simultaneously by transforming our cities into more sustainable […]

Wall Street Journal Declares Peak Oil No Longer a “Fringe” Idea

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 19, 2007 | 12 Comments

Realizing that it’s generally considered passé if not altogether wacky to talk about New York City transportation policy and politics in the context of global energy business, a Wall Street Journal story this morning confirms that global fossil fuel production appears to be hitting a plateau. In other words, Peak Oil is no longer a […]

Green Subways: An Answer Blowing in the Wind?

By Sarah Goodyear | Nov 13, 2007 | 7 Comments

As part of its "Steal This Idea" series, Good magazine has a suggestion for a way to move toward a more sustainable New York: offering subway riders the chance to pay a little extra for a wind-powered ride. Each year, the New York subway system uses 1.8 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity, making it the city’s […]

The MTA is Testing Battery-Powered Buses

By Jason Varone | Oct 15, 2007 | 6 Comments

Here’s a good little item that nearly slipped past us. City Room reported the other day that the MTA is testing new battery-powered buses: The city’s other hybrid buses run like hybrid cars. They run off battery power some of the time and diesel or (in the case of many cars) gas engines at other […]

The World’s Greenest, Most Livable Cities

By Jason Varone | Oct 8, 2007 | 9 Comments

Writing in this month’s Reader’s Digest, Matthew Kahn, an environmental economist at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment, analyzed data from 141 nations and ranked the planet’s greenest, most livable places. While Northern European nations like Finland, Norway and Sweden fared well, the United States performed poorly in several categories, ranking #107 in Greenhouse gases, #106 […]

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