Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Out of Town

Support Builds for Carbon Taxes Over “Cap and Trade”

By Jason Varone | | 3 Comments
The Independent reports that European CO2 emissions are rising not falling, casting doubt on the EU’s touted Emissions Trading Scheme: Europe’s big polluters pumped more climate-changing gases into the atmosphere in 2006 than during the previous year, according to figures that show the EU’s carbon trading system failing to deliver curbs. Critics said the data […]

Mexico City 2030?

By Brad Aaron | | 2 Comments
As New York City government employees rabidly defend the carte blanche parking privileges that enable their daily driving habit, the mayor of Mexico City has decreed that officials there bike or take transit to work once a month. According to the BBC, less than one percent of trips in Mexico City are taken by bike, […]

Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?

By Sarah Goodyear | | 1 Comment
Yesterday marked the opening of the Sexy Green Auto Show at the Eden Project bio theme park in Cornwall, UK. It’s a display meant to demonstrate that "green" cars (like the Ford Focus Flexi Fuel bio-ethanol number at right) don’t have to fit the clunky Birkenstock stereotype. As the Guardian notes, [T]he main task of […]

An English Plan in New York

By Brad Aaron | | 3 Comments
The once traffic-filled street between Trafalgar Square and the National Gallery is now a thriving plaza. Climate change is a greater threat to London than terrorism, one of the city’s top planners said yesterday. Debbie McMullen (right), a one-time New Yorker who heads implementation of the "London Plan," made this matter-of-fact announcement at a Tuesday […]
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