Feet don't travel as fast as wheels. Bicycles can't carry passengers or luggage. < beware the sweeping claims - it is faster to walk the short distance to the ...
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Chris Bradshaw ... Liberals don't hate taxation. They need tax money to pay for grand scheme to "help" people. They don't think people do bad things on their...
In answer to Martin Cassini, the answer is yes. I consider that individual vehicles, however "green", are unsuited to areas where space is at a premium, and...
... I suppose the usual alternatives: walking, cycling, HPV, electric scooters, bus, tube, taxi. But I take your point: cars are occasionally useful and a...
... The problem is one of routine. There are many other reasons for walking or bicycling for small trips (another is for good health) but seldom do most people...
"actually, it is easy to not emit carbon dioxide, on average, by using electric cars or regrowable fuels" THIS IS COMPLETE AND UTTER NONSENSE. We do not know...
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Aug 2, 2006 1:28 pm
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Without artificial nitrogen manure, invented in Norway nearly a century ago, the world's human population would be 2 billion less. The prairies with 60 million...
This is a follow-up to an old sustran-discuss thread that began in April (as [sustran] FW: Traffic in India) when I posted a link to a video of a chaotic...
... That must be why Al Gore entitled his movie about global warming: "An Inconvenient Truth". There is a movement starting in the U.S. to get elected leaders...
Mike, Well done. 2 often proposed CO2 counter measures that worry me are: - Fixing and depositing CO2-gas in underground stores. If the spill heat theory is...
... Please try to remain polite, especially when quoting out of context! My statement was in response to driving and an obvious simplification in not...
Basta! We do not use this form of address here. We may live in a fucked-up and often all too hopeless world, but our discourse here is polite and collegial....
Thank you Eric, I would like to stress your point on near term practical solutions, without losing the long and wide perspective: My wife and I are building a...
The recent Project for Public Spaces newsletter features ' In Praise of Zealous Nuts' who go about restoring social and local transport links destroyed by ...
Tramsol@...
Aug 4, 2006 1:19 pm
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My Apologies. I was having a really outrageously frustrating day, and I lost my perspective. Obviously, IF the earth is already way over any form of...
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Aug 4, 2006 1:26 pm
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Sorry, but there seems to be no real credence to the waste heat theory anywhere. Look, the data linking smoking to cancer are only statistical inferences -- we...
Chemical reaction is: Oil + oxygen -> carbon dioxide + water vapour + (waste) heat In what manner would the statistical inference of the carbon dioxide be...
The CO2 and water vapor keep the atmosphere from letting both reflected heat (from the sun) and heat generated as a results of using fossill fuels from...
Lee Schipper
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Aug 7, 2006 11:22 am
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The time has come to require cars to meet the principle that Plowden ... accordance with the principle: No motor vehicle should cause more danger or...
Chris Bradshaw
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Aug 7, 2006 3:28 pm
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... enormous concentrations of people and activity ARE measurably warmer as super heat islands, but this effect is still smaller compared to the global effect...
What is a "group"? In Nordic law, a "dense settlement" (tätort, tettsted) is defined as a minimum of 200 persons whose homes are a maximum of 200 metres...
There is certainly scope to make more use of smaller cars (cars with less internal space) where appropriate. But there is also plenty of scope to reduce the...
For anyone who happens to be next to their computer today at noon, Paris and Ljubiana time, you may want to thinking about tuning in to an interview led by ...
Good, (though sorry I did not quite follow what the reporter said ;-) I heard you saying on carsharing that not having a car is cool. I must be doing something...
Mass Bike Rides in Paris – Vive la difference Eric Britton, New Mobility Partnerships <http://newmobilitypartners.org/> PARIS. August, 8, 2006 Americans...
On Behalf Of Dave Brook Here's the transcript of a radio news story with some wonderful comments by participants at the conclusion of Flexcar's month-long "low...
Hello, The moderator of the LessCars group has changed the group's name. This means that both the group's email address and the group home page location have...
