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Read the transcript from our live webchat about natural gas. David Hughes (author of ‘Will Natural Gas Fuel America in the 21st Century?’), Michael Bomford and Richard Gilbert answer questions from readers.
Read the transcript from our live webchat about natural gas. David Hughes (author of Will Natural Gas Fuel America in the 21st Century?), Michael Bomford and Richard Gilbert answer questions from readers.
– Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post-Consumer World,
– Universal bike lanes: the only way to mass cycling?
– Sail Transport Network is Unfurling
– Japanese dreams — peace and happiness in Switzerland
The challenges posed by shale gas production have serious implications for the future of agriculture, transportation, and health in the United States. In this collection of articles, PCI Fellows explore what the Hughes Report means for these sectors.
– Ken Greenberg On How Jane Jacobs Was Right (Book Review)
– Great places: dense, wired, and sustainable
– What’s So Great About Portland?
– Expanding Bike Programs Makes Sense in a Time of Shrinking Budgets and Soaring Gas Prices
– Bicycling and the art of being broke
– Wealthy Nations Maxed Out on Travel?
– How drivers can put a brake on the world’s petrol crisis
– New report and map chronicles the visceral reality of 47,000 preventable pedestrian deaths
– Never too old to bike to work (video)
– Plugging High-Speed Rail Into Germany’s Power Grid
– Bikes are the future, not cars
– E-cars won’t solve congestion, says president of Bicycle Association
– Cars & Capitalism
The energy descent from peak oil production imposes decades of contraction in the global economy. An orderly contraction, particularly in the US, is not likely for a number of reasons. The decline of the oil civilization is a phenomenon and spectacle of such complexity that understanding it requires a systems perspective. This summary of the case for a disorderly contraction and its core drivers demonstrates the capacity of systems tools to show the interlocking feedback structure that shapes how this momentous change plays out over time.
– SF’s Bike to Work Day May 12
– Peak oil? Now it’s peak cars
– The Book Bike
– Philadelphia’s Two-Wheeled Revolution in Progress
San Francisco’s newest group ride marks a less confrontational, more booty-shaking phase in the city’s bike movement. Down in San Jose, Bike Parties have monthly costume themes from S–M to animals, and can attract up to 3,500 riders.
According to The Times, Iraq’s oil ministry is to reset its oil production target for 2017 reducing it down from 12 million barrels per day to between 6.6-7 mb/d. The news is of no surprise to anyone (with the possible exception of Donald Trump)…
The OFS would require that 50 percent of new automobiles in 2014, 80 percent in 2016, and 95 percent in 2017, would be warranted to operate on non-petroleum fuels in addition to or instead of petroleum based fuels. Compliance possibilities include the full array of existing technologies – including flex fuel, natural gas, hydrogen, biodiesel, plug-in electric drive, and fuel cell – and a catch-all for new technologies. This requirement will then provide certainty to investors to produce alternative fuels and fueling stations to have a variety of pumps supplying those alternative fuels.
