Interview with Melinda Hanson, Bird’s Sustainability Chief
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Hanson talks about Bird's life cycle environmental impacts, climate change, the Cruiser, and reclaiming streets
Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Climate Change
Big Wonky Good News: L.A. City Adopts People-Centered Transportation Metric: “VMT” In, “LOS” Out
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VMT puts the E back into CEQA.
Garcetti’s Green New Deal for Los Angeles Under Attack for Being Too Car-Centric
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Goals for the plan include 100 percent renewable energy by 2045 and 100 percent zero-emission vehicles on city streets by 2050. Some say that is too little and too late.
Metro’s $400 Million Roads Plan Is an Act of Climate Change Denial
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It’s time for Metro to pump the brakes on its misguided, climate-harming road plan for the 710 N. Corridor cities.
San Diego Fights CA Courts for Its Highway-Happy Plan to Increase Emissions
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Despite what CA’s courts say, San Diego insists on plans to widen freeways in its 2050 Regional Transportation Plan, even if it defies the state’s ambitions to reduce climate-changing car dependency. As Eric Jaffe at CityLab wrote, the story is told in one simple chart created by opponents of the plan, which shows that it projects that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions […]
CA Legislature’s New Session: Hit-and-Run, Cap-and-Trade, No Tolls for Bikes
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A new California legislative session started last week with the swearing-in of ten new Senators and 27 new Assemblymembers, the introduction of a hundred new bills between the two houses, and adjournment until January 5. These first-out-of-the-gate bills can be discussed in hearings as soon as the legislature reconvenes, since by then they will have […]