Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Car Culture

Working World Mag Provides "Tips for Dealing with Your Commute"

By Damien Newton | Nov 30, 2007 | No Comments

The feature article in this week’s Working World Magazine is entitled "Stuck in Traffic? 7 Ways to Get Out." Not surprisingly, none of its seven suggestions actually involve getting out of traffic. Mercifully, the article doesn’t appear on the website. Here’s the list: 1) Take note, with a tape recorder make a to do list2) […]

Congress To Vote on Energy Bill Tomorrow

By Damien Newton | Nov 14, 2007 | No Comments

A note from a friend of mine in the clean building industry. Hey kids, I generally don’t do this and I am obviously a bit biased here, working for a solar company, but in the interests of appearing productive when they have not been while still making sure they get their full 3-4 month vacation, […]

LA First impressions

By Damien Newton | Nov 13, 2007 | 2 Comments

Over the next couple of weeks, I’m going to give my impressions, as a new Angeleno, on LA’s transportation system. Today, I’ll look at roads and car transport. Later this week, I’ll give my pedestrian impressions, both in my neighborhood and in the downtown. A little later I’ll do some analysis of the transit system […]

Forbes: CA the 14th Greenest State

By Damien Newton | Oct 24, 2007 | No Comments

This week’s edition of Forbes magazine featured a profile of the "greenness" of all 50 states, ranking them from the most enviro-friendly to the least. Forbes seems surprised that California wasn’t ranked closer to the top given the state’s well-chronicled environmental policies. Here’s what Forbes had to say about the Golden State: CaliforniaNo. 14 Score: […]