Category: Energy Efficiency
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Ivey Misses the Air for the Exhaust
Ivey looks on the dark side for a bright, promising proposal to reduce car traffic in Madison
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Bike Zeitgeist: Being the Engine, Pedaling Revolution
GM just went bust. The Highway “Trust” Fund went bust a few months ago. The repo man is busy, busy, busy. No better time than today to introduce two great works that celebrate a better way: Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists Are Changing American Cities a book by Jeff Mapes (with a strong Madison connection; more…
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Our Incandescent City Council
I live for these told-ya-so moments…. A couple of years ago our city council was mulling a ban on incandescent light bulbs, and mandating compact fluorescents. It was well-intentioned, given our current energy gluttony, but misguided in its application. I encouraged my friends on the council to avoid an ordinance that dictated a certain type…
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It’s Official: Cities Are More Efficient and Theoretical Math Proves It
Cities are more energy efficient. Math proves it. See Zipf’s Law.
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The New China Crisis: Carbon by Container Ship
Today’s Krugman article on “Carbon by Container Ship”–the New China Crisis.
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The UrbanThoreau Project Datapoints: An Emerging Culture of Using Less?
Can we connect the dots and avoid the simultaneous quadruple catastrophes of economic implosions, ethical collapse, biosphere-wide destruction and war between civilizations? Perhaps by learning to be happy with less material, we could…
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Another dead bicyclist, another day in the life of a speed addicted society
Hans Noeldner got a great letter to the editor about our society’s twisted priorities–speed over life–in today’s Capital Times.
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Enough with the roads already!
Fill the SUV or Pay the Mortgage: Madison mayor’s pursuit of car-only development is not good for Madison’s economy.