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Paris Smog Can Take Cars Off The Streets

Travelers cherish the city of Paris for the charm of its luxurious springtime, but maybe not this year. Since last Wednesday, air pollution in Paris and 22 suburbs has topped the safe limit for PM10 particulates (80 mg/cubic meter). The Paris smog readings hit 180 mg on Friday, more than twice the accepted safe limit. This [&hellip

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By Sandy Dechert | March 18, 2014 | Bicycle, Health |

Los Angeles Could Easily be a Solar-Powered City

UCLA’s Luskin Center has created a “Los Angeles Solar Atlas” showing the solar potential in Los Angeles County on a variety of different scales. It created solar maps for each city and zone in the county and for the jurisdiction of each of the county’s 7 utilities, as well as for the county as a whole.

By Zach | March 25, 2011 | Renewable Energy | 2 Comments |

How Does Your City Compare to Others in Bicycling, Walking and Transit?

An EcoLocalizer reader recently shared a great site of his, Modes of Transportation, that helps you find and compare the percentages of people that use varying modes of transportation to get to work in U.S. cities. That is, you can…

By Zach | March 4, 2011 | Transportation | 1 Comment |

CicLAvia 2011 Will Be in April, July, AND October

CicLAvia 2011 (that would be Ciclovia in Los Angeles) will be held three times this year, according to… CicLAvia. “The route will be more-or-less the same as 10-10-10, with expansion to South L.A., Boyle Heights, and/or Chinatown as CicLAvia works with…

By Zach | February 15, 2011 | Transportation | 1 Comment |

Save $9,656 a Year, Ride Public Transit

Well, that’s how much you’ll save if you’re the average American. Could be a little less or a little more depending on where you live. The point of the matter is, however, you can save a ton by riding your…

By Zach | January 26, 2011 | Transportation | 10 Comments |

How to Save $9,515 a Year

The American Public Transportation Association (APTA) releases figures regarding how much people save by riding transit in the U.S. every month in its Transit Savings Report. It calculates how much the average American saves as well as how much an…

By Zach | November 23, 2010 | City Planning, Transportation | 2 Comments |

Where’s the World’s Most Painful Commute?

I was just writing earlier on the power of cities and the progressive transportation choices cities can take to turn the world around (environmentally, economically, and otherwise). Looking at this from a different (and perhaps more negative) angle, IBM recently released…

By Zach | August 20, 2010 | City Planning, Transportation | 2 Comments |

Seedbombing & Guerrilla Gardening Become Easier with Candy Machines

Guerrilla gardening is an increasingly popular way of reclaiming dead or derelict public spaces and improving them while having some fun. GuerrillaGardening.org says: “There is neglected orphaned land all over the place. Pockets of resistance have broken out in some…

By Zach | May 13, 2010 | Gardening | 2 Comments |

10 Global Cities & Their Greenhouse Gas Emissions

A new report ranks ten leading world cities on their greenhouse gas emissions. It also examines how and why the emissions differ. As the report says, over 50% of the world’s population lives in urban areas. Leading cities of the…

By Zach | September 25, 2009 | Climate Change | 3 Comments |