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Electric Bikes, A Rising Force On Urban Transit Landscape — 38 Million Units...
Efforts to transition rapidly to renewable and clean energy solutions while satisfying growing urban mobility needs are key factors accelerating the sale and use of electric bicycles. Widely used in...
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Bicycle Infrastructure Policy Needs To Change To Increase Ridership, Improve...
Via the delectable Bikocity, here’s some recent news on bicycle infrastructure research and the need to change the bicycle guidelines in transportation planning’s “Bible” (something I’ve been...
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Car Hater To EV Lover (What Made Me Into An Electric Car Lover?)
Here’s a short version of how I changed from being ‘ugh’ about cars to ‘meh’ about electric cars to a super EV enthusiast. Check her out: I’m not going to lie — I’ve got issues with cars. My master’s...
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New York City Bike Share Launches — New Tech, Reactions, & How To Use The...
This article originally appeared on Bikocity. New York City (NYC) has finally rolled out the beginnings of its large bicycle-sharing program, Citi Bike, with 6,000 bikes and 330 bike-sharing stations...
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EV News & Bike News (BMW i8 Roadster, Nissan Leaf Quick Chargers…)
Before checking out the EV news and bike news below, of course, be sure to check out our own EV & bike stories if you haven’t seen them all. After you’ve done that, here are 8 more EV stories, 11...
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Singapore Debuts Driverless Navia Electric Shuttle (VIDEO)
One of my favorite things about St. Augustine are the tourist trolleys that shuttle people around the historic sites and let you learn the history of that old city without worrying too much about the...
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Choimobi Yokohama — Electric Carsharing Program For Yokohama Uses...
A new partnership between Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. and the City of Yokohama — Choimobie Yokohama — is the newest addition to the Yokohama Mobility Project ZERO program (YMPZ). The Japanese word...
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Lego-Like, Elegant Bike Lanes That Snap Together
Show up at the next city council meeting in your area regarding the improvement of bike lanes. Better yet, show up with pictures of these Lego-like bike lanes! Or get some of the building blocks...
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Cleantech Developments Stimulating Renewable Energy Growth
Senior editor at the outstanding progressive news outlet AlterNet, Tara Lohan, recently contacted me because she was writing a story on “which developments in clean tech are the most promising in terms...
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Streetcars Boost Local Economies, Light Rail Gets People Out Of Cars
Confirming the claims of many a city planner (like myself), a couple of recent studies have shown that modern US streetcars have been able to stimulate economic development and shape land use...
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Write About Cities, Win A Trip To Abu Dhabi!
Whether you’re a city planner, a cleantech geek, an energy buff, or a full-fledged sustainability guru, here’s an opportunity that I don’t think you want to pass up. Masdar is offering to bring you to...
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Bike Sharing Boom
Bike sharing is growing fast around the world. The first graph below is a good representation of the staggering growth. Worldwide Bike-Share Boom Visualized In New Graphs (via Planetsave) The past...
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Study Confirms: Drivers View People More Negatively
Following up on the discussion Lloyd Alter of TreeHugger and I have been having, new research confirms what I think was the key point of Lloyd’s article on the electric car revolution vs fixing our...
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Watch NYC Change In New Streetfilms Montage (VIDEO)
As change takes us further and further, it is only occasionally that we remember how things once were. The landscape of urbanist environments is certainly changing, and in the best of cases is working...
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Choose Your Next Home With Car-Free US City Transit
The website that brought renters, homebuyers, and realtors a powerful index of walkability has done it again, this time for public transit (source: walkscore.com). At the end of January, Matt Lerner,...
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Win-Win Transportation Solutions With Todd Litman
How Communities Can Reduce Transportation Emissions by 50% Originally published on the ECOreport. “Would we have a sustainable transportation system if all automobiles were electric powered?” asked...
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Chicago 2030: Green Or Ashen?
Editor’s Note: This article is one submission in a live Masdar blogging contest (find out the entry requirements here). Very simply, the focus of the contest submissions is to: “Describe your city in...
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13 New Renewable Cities Speakers
Originally published on Renewable Cities. With [under] one month until the Global Learning Forum takes place, we are very happy to announce 13 incredible speakers and session leaders: Chris Henderson,...
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Bicycling Doubles In Vancouver, North America’s Most Livable City
The city of Vancouver has set another standard for cities across the world. Vancouver recently hit another smart growth milestone or two with upward-spiraling numbers of citizens and visitors freely...
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Comprehensive $64 Million Bicycle & Pedestrian Plan For San Diego
Originally published on Bikocity. Recently, Next City reported on San Diego, California’s $64 million plan to construct a bicycle and pedestrian transit system complete with “protected bike lanes,...
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