Archive for August, 2008

Bikesharing comes to the Capital City

Friday, August 22nd, 2008
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Tweet While we have our offices here in Washington, D.C., we try our best not to come at things with a DC-centric focus, thinking “outside the Beltway.”  So pardon me for just a moment while we toot the horn of our hometown. It may be local for us, but it’s certainly national in significance, representing [...]

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Mobile phones: The future model for the car industry?

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
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Tweet There is a fascinating story on the cover of this month’s Wired Magazine about Shai Aggasi and Better Place, Inc., and his out-of-this-world plan to turn the car industry as we know it on its head. His plan is essentially to replace the car as the primary commodity being sold by automakers, and turn [...]

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A clarion call goes unheeded

Monday, August 18th, 2008
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Tweet “All the traditions of our past, all the lessons of our heritage, all the promises of our future point to another path, the path of common purpose and the restoration of American values. That path leads to true freedom for our Nation and ourselves. We can take the first steps down that path as [...]

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Poor sidewalks, bikeways and transit service a barrier for older Americans seeking relief from high gas prices

Thursday, August 14th, 2008
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Tweet Guest post by Barbara McCann, coordinator of the National Complete Streets Coalition A new poll out from AARP documents how incomplete streets are making it tough for older Americans to avoid paying the high price of gasoline.  Almost 40 percent of those polled say they don’t have adequate sidewalks in their neighborhood, 55 percent [...]

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Enhancing the Pickens Plan with some old-fashioned walkability

Friday, August 8th, 2008
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Tweet You may have seen oilman T. Boone Pickens around lately. If not, then you haven’t turned on your television, radio, or opened a newspaper in the last few weeks. He’s been touting his new Pickens Plan nonstop to nearly any outlet that will listen, taking out full-page ads in newspapers from coast to coast [...]

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Major League bikers?

Thursday, August 7th, 2008
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Tweet Just for fun and in the same vein as last year’s post about Buffalo Bills quarterback J.P. Losman loving life in downtown Buffalo, I noticed this story about some other professional athletes eschewing what perhaps most would expect to describe the lifestyle of a professional athlete — drive an expensive vehicle and live in [...]

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Applying the brakes

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
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Tweet Good story today in the Washington Post as part of their ongoing “Oil Shock” series, with this one focusing on the consumer impacts of rising prices. If it’s not already, this is beginning to sound like the theme of 2008, as rising energy prices are like a rudder in the water turning the ship [...]

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