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As our big-sibling site EcoGeek reported, Paris will launch a new city-wide car sharing service by the end of 2009. As Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoë announced last week, Autolib will feature 4,000 electric cars available for rent.
Autolib will operate in a manner very similar to Paris’ wildly popular bike-sharing program, Vélib. The electric vehicles will [...]

Now that gas prices have crept over $5 per gallon in some parts of the U.S., citizens are starting to squirm. Driving patterns and transportation choices are changing, and opinions abound about how best to solve our problems.
Perhaps I should be relieved when I come across websites such as California Political News. Just read [...]

The 2008 Towards Carfree Cities conference starts today. The World Carfree Network’s annual five-day event, entitled “Rethinking Mobility, Rediscovering Proximity,” lands in North America for the first time. Progressive Portland, Oregon, several times recognized as the most bike friendly city in the US and an international model for sustainable transportation and smart development, seems to [...]

Bikes not Bombs, based in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, has been advocating for bicycles for 23 years. The group has a multi-pronged approach including recycling donated bikes from the community, educating youth in the ways of bike repair, and providing repaired bicycles to countries in need of transportation aid. Since its inception, Bikes [...]