Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Climate Change

Bloomberg Touches on Safe Streets, Pricing in State of the City

By Ben Fried | Jan 18, 2008 | 5 Comments

Mayor Bloomberg delivered his seventh State of the City Address yesterday morning at Flushing Meadows Corona Park. The speech had several nuggets of news and info related to livable streets issues. Touting the good news from 2007, the Mayor noted that New York City’s streets are getting safer: In 2007, we made the safest big […]

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 […]

Bloomberg Declares Support for a National Carbon Tax

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 2, 2007 | 7 Comments

New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg will declare his support today for a national carbon tax, according to a report posted this morning on the New York Times City Room blog by metro reporter Sewell Chan: Mayor Bloomberg plans to announce today his support for a national carbon tax. In what his aides are calling […]

Warning: Driving Could Be Hazardous to Your Health

By Jason Varone | Oct 30, 2007 | 2 Comments

Last week, the European Parliament proposed that car advertisements throughout the EU include tobacco-style health warnings about the environmental impact of automobiles. The New York Times reported: Under the plan, 20 percent of the space or time of any auto ad would have to be set aside for information on a car’s fuel consumption and […]

Robin Chase: “The Web 2.0 of Transportation Technologies”

By Sarah Goodyear | Oct 15, 2007 | 21 Comments

Robin Chase is the co-founder and former CEO of Zipcar and the founder and CEO of GoLoco, a ride-sharing service that uses social networks like Facebook to connect people who want to carpool. A Harvard University Loeb Fellow, Chase is an authority on the use of wireless and mesh network technology as it applies to […]

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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