Tag: Car-Free
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Car2go Launches Car Sharing in Berlin - Why are the Germans Chuckling?
Daimler brings the flexible short-term rental concept to Berlin with 1000 SmartCars, raising smiles for more than just the pleasure of car sharing.
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Tom Vanderbilt On The Importance Of Walking, Both For Our Health and For Our Cities
St. Augustine said "Solvitur Ambulando": It is solved by walking. So does Tom Vanderbilt in this great series in Slate.
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Successful Young Americans Seen Drifting Away From Car Culture: Smart Phones Play A Role
From 2001 to 2009, young people (16- to 34-year-olds) who lived in households with annual incomes of over $70,000 increased their use of public transit by 100 percent, biking by 122 percent, and walking by 37 percent
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The Week in Pictures: Volvo's Pedestrian Airbag, Paris Underwater, and More
An airbag on the hood of the car to protect pedestrians? We also have a video of Paris flooded by rising seas, a sliding library creates an extra room, and more.
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Will "Driverless Cars Increase Tensions in Cities and Suburbs Alike"?
It is probably likely that they will do the exact opposite. At least they look where they are going.
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The Lorax 'Speaks for the Trees', and for Mazda Cars, Too (Video)
The Lorax, was an environmentalist who spoke for the treets. Now he's also a spokesperson for Honda.
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Pocket $300 To Share Your Car
Portland changed its laws to allow people to share cars. Now the new service is giving car owners 300 bucks to share the sharing expeerience.
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More Proof That Young People Are Giving Up On The American Dream of A House In The Suburbs
It's not that they want to live in the city or near transit, it's that they can no longer afford the alternatives.
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Old Hubcaps are Repurposed into Gorgeous Metal Art Canvases For the Landfillart Project
Hubcaps from old cars from the 1930’s through to the 1970’s find new life.
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Sobering Map Pinpoints Every Vehicle-Related Death in the US
Mapping site ITO World recently compiled data of virtually every fatality that occurred on roads in the United States between 2001 and 2009 into one sobering map.
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Beyond the Car: Envisioning a New "Sustainable Mobility Vehicle"
it's not a car, it is a robot that takes you where you need to go.
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The Week in Pictures: Cloud Travel, a Vertical Forest in Milan, and More (Slideshow)
We talk a lot about low-impact transportation on TreeHugger, from bikes to electric cars to high speed rail. But this is definitely the first time we've talked about traveling on a floating cloud.
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Which of Two Mornings is Your Morning?
Two Mornings, a video short by the Sierra Club, will either make you serenely pleased with your morning or leave you wondering if you made the right choice. Which of the two mornings is yours (video after
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Governor to Sign Bill to Make New York State Roads Bike and Pedestrian-Friendly
New York City's policy of installing bike lanes has generated a lot of discussion, but Governor Andrew Cuomo has decided that he's not going to let Michael Bloomberg get all the credit for pushing a
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Local Colorado Brewery Transports Kegs via Tricycle
When Shannon and Colin Westcott decided to start Equinox Brewing in Fort Collins, Colorado, they wanted it to be a local, green operation. And that meant no keg deliveries by car or truck. So to save
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Bike-Friendly Boulder Awards Bike-Friendly Businesses
Boulder, Colorado is a pretty dreamy place for cyclists. It's the fourth-most bike-friendly city in the world according to some, but living here, you get to see how the city doesn't view being 'bike-friendly' as a
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Strasbourg Says No To Dropping Speed Limits to 30 KPH
In February, I wrote that Strasbourg, in eastern France, was planning on dropping speed limits throughout much of the city to 30km/hour (18.6 mph). The idea was to make pedestrians the "kings of
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Ottawa Gets a Bixi Bicycle Rental Going
Congratulations and bienvenue, Canada's capital city is joining the club and re-introducing a bicycle rental scheme. They are using Bixi, the bicycles used in Montreal, London and Toronto.
