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February 18, 2009
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil
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- changeinwashington, development, energy, gasoline, highways, infrastructure, lightrail, metropolitan, publictransit, rail, smartercities, sprawl, transportation bill, transportation policy
Last week was a remarkably revealing week regarding this new Administration's transportation policy. First, on February 10th at a Florida town hall meeting, President Obama declares that I think a lot more people are open now to thinking regionally in...continued→
October 14, 2008
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil
, U.S. Law and Policy
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- cars, cities, development, gasprices, globalwarming, highways, legislation, lightrail, oildependence, policy, publictransit, rail, sprawl, transportation bill
"We built a really inefficient environment with the greatest efficiency ever known to man." -- Andy Karsner, Asst Sec for Energy and Efficiency and Renewable Energy at Department of Energy, as quoted in Tom Friedman's Hot, Flat and Crowded Driving...continued→
October 29, 2007
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Living Sustainably
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- development, energy, globalwarming, growth, publictransit
Passionate defender of nature Edward Abbey once said that "growth for growth's sake is the ideology of the cancer cell."Skepticism about growth isn't unusual among those of us interested in conserving natural resources. I have thought a lot about this...continued→