A federal judge late Thursday upheld the Port of Los Angeles’ “clean trucks” plan to require drivers moving through the port to comply with hiring and maintenance rules.
In a 57-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Christina Snyder rejected arguments from American Trucking Associations that had argued the plan was not in compliance with federal laws dealing [...]
China may have found an environmentally friendly way to save money while easing congestion on city roads, Engadget reports.
Instead of spending millions to widen roads, the Shenzhen Huashi Future Parking Equipment company is developing a “3D Express Coach” (also called a “three-dimensional fast bus”) that will allow cars less than 2 meters high to travel [...]
The overnight flight by the prototype is the first major hurdle for the project since it was set up seven years ago, with the aim of flying around the world by 2013 or 2014.
Solar Impulse relies on the sun to power the engines and charge the batteries, in theory storing enough energy to last through [...]
Ron Cunningham’s short but striking editorial in the Gainesville Sun about who should really be blamed for the oil spill – us.
The Florida Energy Systems Consortium, with support from UF’s Office of Sustainability and the Program for Resource Efficient Communities, will host a panel discussion on alternatively-fueled vehicles from 1:45 pm until 3:30 pm on March 18th in Rooms 361-363 of the Reitz Union on the University of Florida campus.
Panelists include industry or university [...]
Thanks to Don Davis, President of Capital City Bank of Gainesville, for sharing this with us:
Follow this link to an article that will make you say, “Why didn’t I think of that?”
The idea is to test electric mail trucks. Think about it – they drive the same route, same distance every day then they [...]
“The New York Times reports the Senseable City Laboratory [at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology] is working on a wheel to gather the kinetic energy we generate while biking, saving it up for when we need a boost on those daunting hills.:
via Harvesting cyclists’ kinetic energy | MNN – Mother Nature Network.
“ZIPcarts, a new Gainesville transportation service launching Sept. 5, shuttles people within the perimeter of 16th Avenue, the southernmost edge of UF’s campus, Southeast Seventh Street and 34th Street.”
Get a ride: www.freezipcarts.com
via The Independent Florida Alligator: News – New cart service offers free rides around Gainesville.
Transit Oriented Development Land Development Regulations Workshop
Please join us for a workshop to discuss the land development regulations being created to implement traditional neighborhood and transit-oriented developments as provided for in CPA-01-09, the soon to be adopted Alachua County Comprehensive Plan amendment that addresses long-term concurrency management solutions.
Date: Monday, December 7, 2009
Place: 111 SW 1st [...]
From Jim Motavalli, former editor of E/The Environmental Magazine:
The Cash for Clunkers program, formally the Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS), goes into effect today, and if you have an old, gas-guzzling bomb taking up space in the garage you should seriously think of trading it in. What’s in it for you? How about $4,500 that [...]
China is positioning itself to lead the Electric Car revolution, according to this article by Jim Motavalli:
A report by Pike Resarch, “Electric Vehicles on the Grid,” says that by 2015 the global EV charging network market will be at $1.9 billion annually, and China will account for almost half (47.8 percent) of total sales.
via BNET [...]
With the American auto industry in bankruptcy and all those orphaned S.U.V.’s now wards of the state, I felt a need to hit the road – to scoot down the West Coast, away from the broken past.
Car loaded with Springsteen and Sinatra, I took to Interstate 5, the 1,382-mile ribbon of asphalt designated two years [...]
Take that, Florida legislature (which failed to pass improved auto emission standards for our state just weeks ago)!
President Obama will announce as early as Tuesday that he will combine California’s tough new auto-emissions rules with the existing corporate average fuel economy standard to create a single new national standard, the officials said. As a result, [...]
From the RentaBikeNow folks (who, alas, don’t provide service in Gainesville, but remember them when you’re traveling!):
Bike-to-Work is Easier/Cheaper at 200 Bike Shops Nationwide
CHICAGO, IL – April 30, 2009 – Bike-to-Work Week kicks off May 11th and encourages all Americans to-you guessed it- bike to work. This celebration encourages people to try bike commuting; increases [...]
Do you think bikes should share the roadway and rules with cars, trucks and buses? Or would it be nice if our town had pathways for bikes, pedestrians and scooters that kept them out of harm’s way of cars? There were 119 bike fatalities in Florida in 2007 – most in the nation as it [...]
Project P.U.M.A.
Segway unveils the Project P.U.M.A. (Personal Urban Mobility & Accessibility) prototype. According to the company, “it’s a working concept of what’s possible when you put together smart minds with the goal of setting a new vision for the future of urban transportation. Were making this announcement today in collaboration with General Motors Corp. in [...]
Dig what’s happening with electric cars – we could do this in Gainesville!
Better Place || Press Room || Videos Detail || Cbs Sunday News Video Making The World A Better Place.
Thanks for this link to Harry Kegelman, impetus for the Solar FIT program in Gainesville!
Automakers worldwide are responding to our energy and environmental crises with lower emission vehicles – Thank you!
Will drivers go for electric cars?
DEARBORN, Mich. Inside the Ford Motor Co., it was called Project M to build a prototype of a totally electric, battery-powered car in just six months. When it was started last summer, the effort [...]
Here’s a cool little item that testifies to the ability of ingenuity – something we’re hoping to see a lot more of in the near future – and the viability of a solar-powered car that covered 32,000 miles around the globe without any petrofuels or toxic emissions. I want one!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081204/ap_on_bi_ge/eu_poland_solar_car
Florida Governor Charlie Crist has proposed tightening state auto emissions to help reduce our greenhouse gas contribution that’s causing global warming. “State environmental regulators say that tailpipe pollution accounts for 40 percent of CO2 emissions in Florida.” Do we all recall that the moment he took office, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush canceled the exisiting [...]
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