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Provocative car pic of the day

September 2, 2009

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

Tags:
cars, driving, smartgrowth, transportation

This comes via John Massengale, who says it was taken at the corner of 63rd St. and Park Ave. in New York.  The red car is a vintage Fiat CinqueCento (500):   Kaid Benfield writes (almost) daily about community, development, and...continued

Apocalypse Now in Nebraska: Meet Carhenge

August 31, 2009

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil

Tags:
automobiledependence, carhenge, cars, driving, smartgrowth

  From Wikipedia: "Carhenge is a replica of England's Stonehenge located near the city of Alliance, Nebraska on the High Plains. Instead of being built with large standing stones, as is the case with the original Stonehenge,[1] Carhenge is formed...continued

So, is it an advanced car? A living room on wheels? The end of the world as we know it? You decide.

July 10, 2009

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
cars, community, design, driverless, driving, future, MikeandMaaike, smartgrowth

You know, I don't think this design for a driverless car was created with tongue in cheek, though it certainly could have been.  I generally think of futuristic designers and Google-ites as a fun bunch, so surely this is intended...continued

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

Tags:
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

Little Red Corvette: the songs just aren't the same

September 11, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Moving Beyond Oil

Tags:
cars, carsongs, driving, roadsongs, sawdoctors

  When was the last time you heard a really good car or truck song?  Does the 21st century have a “Six Days on the Road,” “Take It Easy,” or “Little Red Corvette”?  It certainly doesn’t have a “409,” “Little...continued

Ich bin ein Berliner (where they drive less)

May 21, 2008

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

Tags:
bicycling, cars, cities, driving, gasolineprices, neighborhood, publictransit, publictransportation, smart-growth, smartgrowth, walkability, walking

  I am in Berlin (and so is the Dalai Lama, or at least so he was on Monday, as I discovered when I encountered his massive crowd).  And so apparently is Paul Krugman, a columnist for the International Herald-Tribune who...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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