transportation

Brain Mulch: Eat Your Car

3 June, 2009 | Andil Gosine

Jean-Claude and Blen swap tarts for cars at Queen Ann, his Parisian tea house. Jean-Claude’s bicycle always sits prominently outside the café’s main window. “I don’t need a car for anything,” he says. Trains, not planes, take him away on far-ish-away vacations. One bite of his always locally sourced tarts or soufflés (really, they feel like clouds in your mouth), and it’s easy to understand why he prefers fields kept to grow food, not fuel.

Battling Gridlock (34.6)

26 May, 2009 | Rebecca Carnevale and E.A. Crawford

With traffic gridlock causing enormous monetary losses, cities around the world are choosing to use economic instruments to ease congestion. Congestion fees, as they have come to be known, involve assigning a price to a road based on the demand for using that road. The fees are generally set to discourage use rather than raise revenue, though they do the latter as well. ...

Shaping Our Urban Future (34.6)

26 May, 2009

Although many argue that cities around the world are moving towards automobile-dominant, low-density sprawl, comparing Canadian cities with others of similar size in the US and Europe shows a variety of metropolitan development patterns. ...

Beyond Food-vs-Fuel

26 May, 2009 | Susan Holtz

The debate about biofuels has become, in large part, one of food-versus-fuel. Framing the discussion in this way distorts the issue, in that only a modest portion of biofuel is produced from crops that are raised for direct human consumption. Moreover, the environmental implications associated with different biofuels and their feedstocks vary. Above all, the discussion has failed to consider the raft of issues pertaining to the future sustainability of both energy and food systems, which are indeed closely linked. Production and use patterns related to energy, transportation, food and agriculture must change as a result of environmental problems, resource limits, and economic and socio-political stresses. ...

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