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High-Emission Vehicles to Pay £200 ($400!) to Enter London

By Sarah Goodyear | May 10, 2007 | 4 Comments

London mayor Ken Livingstone, whose congestion-pricing plan has served as a model for Mayor Bloomberg’s, is expected to unveil today an even more radical measure aimed at reducing pollution in his city. According to the Guardian, Livingstone’s proposal would target high-emission commercial vehicles: Ken Livingstone is expected to confirm that older, "dirtier" lorries and buses […]

The Greening of the Times

By Sarah Goodyear | Mar 7, 2007 | No Comments

Today’s New York Times has an entire section on "The Business of Being Green" (Times Select), which includes articles on economies of scale in alternative energy, carbon-offset shopping, the possibly endangered practice of truck idling, Danish wind farms, and environmental litigation. The left-leaning Guardian of London has long made green stories a staple of its […]

Fresh Direct Builds a Grocery Empire on Free Street Space

By Charles Komanoff | Nov 22, 2006 | 36 Comments

Today’s Times marked the onset of Gridlock Alert season with a paean to Fresh Direct — the dot-com that brings New Yorkers expensive, home-delivered groceries along with idling engines, double-parking and gridlock galore. Founded five years ago, Fresh Direct is now a $240 million a year outfit that offers us "a glimpse of the next […]