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Take II: Is driving short distances really better than walking?

Before you think that this post is about that silly Boston Legal show back around Christmas, wait. What we're really talking about here is checking our energy uses from a different point of view. Let me elaborate. There's a New York Times article that explains how Andy Revkin chatted with Ed Begley, Jr. about the energy that was needed for the cabbie to power a pedicab. "Walking is not zero emission because we need food energy to move ourselves from place to place," says Chris Goodall (author of "How to live a low-carbon life" and the same ... Read more →

$612 million to walk or bike to school Sebastian Blanco

And you'd think walking would be free. Thanks to years of poor planning and an increasingly lazy (sorry, "busy") population, the U.S. federal government, through the Department of Transportation, is ...

Take II: Is driving short distances really better than walking? 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Before you think that this post is about that silly Boston Legal show back around Christmas, wait. What we're really talking about here is checking our energy uses from a different point of view. Let me elaborate. There's a New York Times article that explains how Andy Revkin chatted with Ed Begley, ...

$612 million to walk or bike to school 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

And you'd think walking would be free. Thanks to years of poor planning and an increasingly lazy (sorry, "busy") population, the U.S. federal government, through the Department of Transportation, is spending $612 million for a program called Safe Routes to School in about 20 states. This program ...


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