Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Energy

The Black Car Project: Filling the Autovoid

By Jason Varone | Sep 19, 2007 | 9 Comments

Thinking of getting rid of your car? You could sell it, but that means somebody else is eventually going to drive it on our city’s streets, contributing to air pollution and congestion. The Black Car Collective has a better idea: entomb it in black stucco. The idea is instead of a functional art car we […]

Conference: Energy: The 1st Challenge of the 21st Century

By Aaron Donovan | Sep 15, 2007 | No Comments

ASPO Week in Houston will consist of four days of high-level energy discussions, including a pre-conference day and post-conference day, daytime and evening presentations, and mix & meet receptions with speakers and sponsors. In addition, they’ve planned field trips to an oil well drilling rig and Refinery Row, our nation’s largest, on the Houston Ship […]

World Cities Adding One Million People Every Week

By Jason Varone | Sep 13, 2007 | 2 Comments

Syndicated columnist Neal Peirce asks whether our planet will be able to absorb the population "mega-surge" currently underway in Africa, Asia and Latin America. From Common Dreams: The problem is that the global population base has increased so radically that even seemingly modest birthrates can have momentous consequences. Joel Cohen (head of the Laboratory of […]

Brit’s Liberal Dems Want to Ban Cars Fueled By Gasoline

By Jason Varone | Aug 30, 2007 | 2 Comments

Britain’s Liberal Democrat Party unveiled a detailed plan to tackle climate change which includes a ban on fossil fuel powered cars by 2040. The Guardian reports: The Liberal Democrat leader, Sir Menzies Campbell, and the party’s environment spokesman, Chris Huhne, unveiled the proposal today as part of a package of measures designed to make Britain […]

Carbon Tax vs. Cap and Trade

By Glenn McAnanama | Aug 29, 2007 | 7 Comments

Congressional debate on climate change has revealed division among politicians on how to best regulate carbon emissions. From NPR’s Marketplace, we get a report on the sharp difference between leading Democrats in both houses, Sen. Barbara Boxer (CA) and Rep. John Dingell (MI) Boxer is quoted as preferring cap and trade, which seems to be […]

Delivering the Goods to a Growing New York

By Jason Varone | Aug 23, 2007 | 7 Comments

In June, NYU’s Wagner Rudin Center of Transportation Policy & Management teamed up with the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council to host an event focused on current and future freight needs in the New York metro region. Their report cited increased consumption and congestion as serious challenges to moving goods in and around the city: […]

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