Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Air Quality

Mayor Says Toronto Will be North America’s Greenest City

By Jason Varone | Mar 27, 2007 | 2 Comments

Toronto Mayor David Miller vowed last week to make Toronto "the leading environmental city in North America." The Toronto Star reports: Mayor David Miller is pledging to slash the city’s greenhouse gas emissions by 30 per cent by 2020 and a whopping 80 per cent by 2050. Miller and city council will unveil a plan […]

Sydney Organizes World’s First Climate Change Blackout

By Jason Varone | Mar 27, 2007 | 1 Comment

Reported on Yahoo news: Australia’s largest city will be plunged into darkness for an hour on Saturday in an attempt at a world first blackout to raise awareness of global warming, organisers say. A successful switch-off could then be copied by major cities around the world in a drive to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions […]

Paris Embraces Plan to Become City of Bikes

By Jason Varone | Mar 26, 2007 | 4 Comments

The Velo’v public bicycle system in Lyon, France. By the end of 2007 the city of Paris will have 1,450 bike stations offering 20,000 bicycles. The Washington Post reports: On July 15, the day after Bastille Day, Parisians will wake up to discover thousands of low-cost rental bikes at hundreds of high-tech bicycle stations scattered […]

Congestion Pricing: Does New York Have the Will?

By Sarah Goodyear | Mar 21, 2007 | 18 Comments

Brad Aaron reports: Political will, holistic planning, centralized management. That’s what Malcolm Murray-Clark says it takes to implement an effective congestion pricing plan. He should know. The Director of Congestion Charging at Transport for London (TfL) oversees a program that is as ambitious as it is successful — a program that went from idea to […]

Report from Atlanta: Don’t Walk This Way

By Sarah Goodyear | Mar 9, 2007 | 23 Comments

I can’t get behind Prevention Magazine’s ranking of New York as 39th among the nation’s most walkable cities. But after spending three days in Atlanta for a conference recently, I have no problem understanding why it rates 86th. Stuck, like most of the city’s legions of conventioneers, in the area around the Peachtree Center, I […]

Schumer & Clinton Backing Upstate NIMBY’s Against Wind Power

By Jason Varone | Feb 28, 2007 | 8 Comments

Newsday reports: A high-voltage transmission line running through Central New York could spur the creation of environmentally friendly wind farms across the state, according to Bill May, project manager for the Albany-based New York Regional Interconnect Inc., who hopes to build the line. However, there is intense opposition coming from many upstate residents. Perhaps that […]

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