Posted by Justin Horner in Environmental Justice , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
The folks putting together the Towards a Just Metropolis Conference turned me on to Debabrata Talukdar’s “Cost of Being Poor: Retail Price and Consumer Price Search Differences across Inner-City and Suburban Neighborhoods.” The study tests, and confirms, the hypothesis that...
Posted by Justin Horner in Environmental Justice , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
In an earlier post, I discussed the recent “What We Learned from the Stimulus” report from Smart Growth America, USPIRG and the Center for Neighborhood Technology that examined stimulus spending on roads and transit with respect to job creation. The...
Posted by Justin Horner in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
It’s nice to go to a hearing in Sacramento every once in awhile and find yourself in a cloud of nearly universal agreement. I was able to experience that rare feeling earlier today when the Senate Committee on Budget and...
Posted by Justin Horner in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Governor Schwarzenegger released his 2010-2011 State Budget on Friday, which includes a disastrous $1.5 billion cut to California’s transit agencies. Everyone knows the story: California’s state government is in the midst of a fiscal nightmare, and Californians themselves are facing...
Posted by Justin Horner in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
As Sacramento’s nearly $3.4 billion in cuts to California transit agencies over the past three years begin to take their toll, the California Transit Association has created an interactive “Aftermath” map of what’s happening on the ground. Despite overwhelming support...
Posted by Justin Horner in Environmental Justice , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
The Public Policy Institute of California has just released its 100th Statewide Survey, Californians and the Environment. The ninth environmental survey from PPIC since 2000, the Survey series “provides policymakers, the media and the general public with objective, advocacy-free information.” ...
Posted by Justin Horner in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
In a previous post, I emphasized the need to provide operating funds for transit, not just capital funds. There’s no sense buying more buses when you’re laying off the people who drive them and repair them. But both the Federal...
