Tag: Driving - Page 8
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Survey: Are Cars Still Status Symbols?
In Japan, kids don't want cars any more. Young Japanese men and women are ditching the car as a status symbol, sparking concern for car companies. Richard Florida says the same thing is happening in America. I see it in my own life. I am a child of
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Roadkill and Litter: How Tossing Your Trash Kills Animals
Image credit: Squirrel QueenLitter Creates Roadkill Creates More Roadkill - The Chain ReactionRoadkill is a perennial problem in our car-addicted society. And while some people may be finding creative, if creepy, applications for recycling our
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Big Apple is Big Winner for Its Transit Improvements
New York City's sustainability efforts under its comprehensive PlaNYC 2030 boosted it above Beijing, which scrambled to clean up its air before hosting the Olympics, and three other international
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2008 U.S. Gas Price Year in Review
Gas prices have always been an up and down proposition. This year has been as especially rocky year, with prices reaching the highest in history, then plummeting to a 5-year low within only a matter of months. Graphs and
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Project Transit: Restoring the Romance of Public Transportation
Photo via Project Transit Project Transit is a newly launched website that aims to upgrade the general conception of public transportation through art and dialogue. Needless to say, it's a daunting challenge—many people, especially those who don't live
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Beijing to Drivers: Give Up Your Car, We'll Pay You $3,600
Photo: AP/Greg Baker Desperate Times Beijing is so desperate to get high-polluting cars off the roads, the city has devised a scheme that will pay citizens as much as $3600 to give up heavily polluting vehicles -- and even give drivers more money to
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Is Toyota Hot on the Trail of a Solar Powered Car?
Toyota, who is famous for its groundbreaking introduction of the Prius, is currently rumored to be hot on the trail of another first... a solar powered car. This headline was splattered all over the Web last Thursday. The vehicle
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The Bad News of 2008 Is Also the Good News
It has been a rocky year for many in 2008. With an ailing economy, viral job loss, busted mortgages, roller coaster oil prices and stock markets, and a grim forecast , it is easy to neglect the good news. But the good
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See Innowattech Collect Energy From the Road, In Action
Green sites have been commenting on the "energy parasite": Innowattech, including our own Lloyd. The Israeli company has developed a system using energy harvesting piezoelectric crystals to sequester the mechanical energy generated on highways, the
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Car Talk Calls for a Higher Gas Tax
Image credit: Car Talk Holiday Card NPR's Motoring Gurus Get Political I'd love to see greener cars, but I must admit I am no great petrolhead, and rarely follow the motoring media. But I consider NPR’s Car Talk an exception to that rule – not only does
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Congestion Charge Loses the Vote in London
The congestion charge has run into some serious opposition in England lately. It's the charge on drivers entering the central core which has been such a success in cutting down traffic in London and other big cities. The first defeat was a decision by
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Weather the Storm with These 6 Green Tips
The persistent snow and other bad weather that has blanketed the northern U.S. and much of Canada has ground several cities to a halt and made many everyday activities all but impossible for folks from
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New Double Decker Buses To Hit London Soon
London has a new Mayor who has started filling some of his campaign promises. One of the main items on the list was the pledge to bring back the iconic and much-missed double decker bus.
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What Does it Take to Turn Any Vehicle into an EV? We Ask Seth Leitman, Author of "Build Your Own Electric Vehicle"
Electric vehicles are a hot topic right now, but the problem is there really isn't much to choose from other than a handful of hybrids and NEVs (neighborhood electric vehicles). But did you know that for the price of a new,
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New Smart Speed Bump Boosts Economy, Lowers Emissions, and Reduces the "Umph" Factor
Photo Caption: "Swedish for speed bump" Credit to Goodnight London The Old Speed Bumps We hate them. Okay, well hate is a pretty strong word, but not strong enough for some of us. Perhaps despise, or even loathe is more appropriate to express some of
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Traffic Lights that Work Even When the Power Doesn't
The obvious inconveniences aside, there's something to be said for living in a place where both random and rolling power outages occur with some frequency. It seems to foster neighborliness and
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Community Questions: Dave Schembri, President of Smart Car
A new feature we're doing on TreeHugger is having our community participate in some of the interviews we do here by asking folks to pose some of their own questions. We think it is important that your voice gets in front of many
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The Gas Price Limbo: How Low Can it Go?
What a ride it has been folks... The price of gas in the U.S. was teetering on the $4 mark just a short few months ago, and here some states stand today with $1.90... $1.70... $1.60... dare we say soon to be $1.50. We are
