If you want to see an idyllic, small Italian city, Perugia may be the place for you. It fits all the characteristics of those beautiful Italian towns from the movies. However, it hasn’t forever. It took visionaries with a green…
2011 Sustainable Transport Award Winner: Guangzhou, China
The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy recently announced the 2011 Sustainable Transport Award winner, which, as you can see, is Guangzhou, China. Its new bus rapid transit (BRT) system, which integrates bike lanes, bike share and metro stations was…
Curitiba: Sustainable Transportation & Sustainable City Leader [VIDEO]
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Curitiba, Brazil has improved itself as much as practically any city on the planet in recent years. A new short video on the city was released by EMBARQ last week and a screening of the video was held at the World…
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…
Power Shifting from Nations to Cities
Cities are becoming more powerful than nations. Hopefully, they will use that power for good, not for evil.
New Yorkers Save $19 Billion a Year Using Sustainable Transportation
$19 billion each year is no small change, not even for New York City. Residents of the Big Apple save at least this much each year due to the simple fact that they drive less than Americans living in other…