JASON DEAREN reports for the Associated Press
Auto dealers say California’s proposed rules to require carmakers to build more electric and other less-polluting hybrid cars and trucks by 2025 will cost consumers more money and will stifle the industry’s growth.
Consumer groups say customers might pay more for the vehicles but will save in lower fuel and [...]
The U.S. House of Representatives forwarded a bill on Friday that environmental leaders warn would undermine the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to curb air pollution and protect public health. Green groups are now urging the Senate and President Barack Obama to stand strong — and avoid a repeat of recent environmental health failures, such as [...]
The cost of America’s quiet billion dollar disaster in the Upper Midwest keeps rising as floodwaters decline.
Shortly before Memorial Day, a summer of unprecedented flooding from Montana to Missouri along the Missouri River started washing away interstate highway lanes and swamping rail lines as it routed thousands of people from their homes.
Flooding continues this Labor [...]
On Wednesday, October 6th the Port of San Francisco will take an impressive stride forward in green technology innovation and become the first port in California to provide shoreside electrical power for cruise ships at berth. There are 9,000 premature deaths in California every year from air pollution — shoreside [...]
Studies have shown that eating locally grown food improves health, supports local economies, promotes the biodiversity of crops and reduces the environmental impact of shipping food around the world. Here are 5 convenient ways to eat local in Gainesville (and elsewhere).
On Tuesday morning, police officers aimed a radar gun at West Drive in Central Park, hoping to catch bicyclists going too fast. Instead they exposed a city bureaucracy bungling the enforcement of one of the simplest of laws: the speed limit.
It was not enough that the Police Department sent officers on Tuesday night to the [...]
The Obama administration has taken back the $2.4 billion allocated to Florida for high-speed trains and is inviting other states to apply for the money, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Friday.
The project, which would have connected Tampa and Orlando with high-speed trains, was rejected by Florida Gov. Rick Scott, a Republican. He said he didn’t [...]
Car commutes sap your life force — that’s common knowledge. But can you quantify exactly how much, and how quickly? The Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M University can. It’s just released its annual Urban Mobility Report, which includes data on how much time, money, and mental health urban-area car commuters lose to congestion every [...]
WASHINGTON — Here’s one plus from the global economic recession: Carbon dioxide pollution last year dropped for the first time in a decade.
But it didn’t last and it wasn’t as big a drop as expected.
Burning fossil fuels to power factories, cars and airplanes spews out greenhouse gases that warm the world. But during the economic [...]
A project of the Bicycle/Pedestrian Advisory Board of Gainesville, Florida
Bike Parade, Homecoming Gainesville, and Ribfest!
Homecoming, October 15th Noonish
Homecoming Parade/5th Ave and 6th St
Join other bike enthusiasts at this year’s homecoming parade when RunBikeWalk (runbikewalk.com) will have a unit in Wave 4 of the parade and eventually join this year’s Ribfest. Ribfest is a fundraiser for [...]
On Wednesday, October 6th the Port of San Francisco will take an impressive stride forward in green technology innovation and become the first port in California to provide shoreside electrical power for cruise ships at berth. There are 9,000 premature deaths in California every year from air pollution — shoreside power results in zero air [...]
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 [...]
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