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The Jevons paradox and why more efficient cars won’t solve our emissions problems

February 9, 2009

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

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alecdubro, cars, driving, fuelefficiency, globalwarming, jevonsparadox, neighborhoods, smartgrowth, sprawl

  By and large, the environmental community - including my own organization - has put far more resources into making our vehicle fleet more efficient than into reducing our dependence on driving through better land use.  While we need to...continued

Kaid Benfield
Kaid Benfield
Director, Smart Growth Program
Washington, DC
Co-founder, LEED for Neighborhood Development rating system; co-founder, Smart Growth America coalition; author, Once There...
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