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Why build a subway when there's room for a streetcar?

If you care about embodied carbon, money or time, you don't dig. But then this is Toronto.

Lloyd Alter

By Lloyd Alter in Public Transportation March 10, 2020

Porsche Taycan

Does size and weight matter in an electric car?

Lloyd Alter

By Lloyd Alter March 6, 2020

Scooters in Marseille

E-scooters are not a menace; the real threat on the sidewalks is still the car

Lloyd Alter

By Lloyd Alter March 5, 2020

Mercedes do crosswalks

Yet another study confirms that drivers of expensive cars are more likely to ignore pedestrians

Lloyd Alter

By Lloyd Alter March 4, 2020

Star Trek Transporter

Study finds that drivers would rather use a transporter, but people who walk or bike enjoy the ride

Lloyd Alter

By Lloyd Alter March 4, 2020

Toxic male in black sports car with leather and smoke advertisement

Why is toxic masculinity such a huge part of car culture?

Lindsey Reynolds

By Lindsey Reynolds March 3, 2020

Stoic bike in front of Brewery

You don't have to be stoic to enjoy the Maxwell Stoic e-bike

Lloyd Alter

By Lloyd Alter February 28, 2020

suv death infographic

Pedestrian and cyclist fatalities increased 53 percent in ten years

Lloyd Alter

By Lloyd Alter February 28, 2020

stop heathrow expansion

Court rules Heathrow expansion illegal, says climate crisis should have been considered

Lloyd Alter

By Lloyd Alter February 27, 2020

Trump in truck

Stockholm Declaration calls for Vision Zero, lower speed limits; USA says drop dead

Lloyd Alter

By Lloyd Alter February 24, 2020

kids in cargo bike

Cargo e-bikes will eat SUVs

Lloyd Alter

By Lloyd Alter February 24, 2020

Bristol Airport

City declares climate emergency, actually means it and does something

Lloyd Alter

By Lloyd Alter February 20, 2020

two cars from volkswagen

Why electric cars won't save us: It takes years to pay off the upfront carbon emissions

Lloyd Alter

By Lloyd Alter February 19, 2020

Lottery winners and losers in Beijing/ Lloyd Alter

Study finds that owning a car is bad for your health

Lloyd Alter

By Lloyd Alter February 18, 2020

Maveric

Airbus proposes blended wing body planes that reduce fuel consumption by 20 percent

Lloyd Alter

By Lloyd Alter February 18, 2020

MOTIV electric car photo

MOTIV is a tiny, electric, autonomous vehicle with a race car heritage

Lloyd Alter

By Lloyd Alter February 12, 2020

Orson Bean

Words matter: When does someone die, and when is someone killed?

Lloyd Alter

By Lloyd Alter February 11, 2020

Elektro Frosch full

$4,500 truck camper includes an electric pickup truck

Lloyd Alter

By Lloyd Alter February 10, 2020

Ford Emoji Jacket/ Ford Europe

Ford says cyclists can help share the road by wearing an emoji jacket

Lloyd Alter

By Lloyd Alter February 7, 2020

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drawing of earth and moon

Here's why the April super Pink Moon is so special

Garbage in the streets of New York

We are about to get buried in garbage

reading cross-legged

Great travel books for tough times

young plants

Now is the best time to plant a vegetable garden

yellow aphids

8 natural & homemade insecticides: Save your garden without killing the Earth

tool bench

Man sets up camera to see who was secretly cleaning his shed at night (video)

movie marquis with coronavirus advice

Common household products that can kill the coronavirus

Portrait of physicist Albert Einstein sitting in an armchair and smoking a pipe, circa 1932.

Why Albert Einstein hated capitalism

dreaming octopus

Sleeping octopus's changing camouflage narrates her dream (video)

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