Front Page [Unofficial]The one reason Americans can’t build quaint, walk-up apartments like they have in Europe
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ZombieRasputinMan, wouldn't it be cool if we (America) could live in walkable cities where your work and grocery are only a few minutes away? Where your family might own one car that you only drive a couple times a week, max?
Sigh.
#ClimateCrisis #walkablecities #walkablecommunities #SolarPunk #Bicycles
OSM USJoin us for the next #MappyHour and map some #sidewalks with the Pedestrian Working Group on July 30th at 8 pm ET.
Get all the details and sign up for free: https://openstreetmap.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/openstreetmap/event.jsp?event=178&
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GCHICFrom longer commutes to fragmented communities, sprawl leaves us with less of what matters. Learn why dense, vibrant neighborhoods are the answer:
Sam ButlerOne of the single most impactful climate emergency changes: Allowing front-yard and driveway businesses.
This would make neighborhoods walkable over night. New jobs in local places. Cafes, grocery shops, repair clinics, tool libraries, arcades, and beyond - right on your street.
Destroying oil demand, commutes, and car dependency over night.
This policy change can happen in as little as 3 sentences, according to Hazel Borys and Strong Towns. pHow can we make this happen everywhere?
Check out the full video, "Why Did We Make Front Yard Businesses Illegal?", which shows some awesome examples and gets into what we can do today — from About Here, Urbanarium, and Uytae Lee.
And share and boost to get people talking about this. This is one of the first and most important changes we can make, for climate emergency transitions. From a path dependency standpoint, it needs to happen first too -- making what we can walkable and low energy to start, and then seeing what we need.
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Re: https://twitter.com/GlobalEcoGuy/status/1693069644356030547
When people trade-in their gas cars for EVs, their gas cars are re-sold to other countries and keep on polluting.
(https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/21/africa/west-africa-benin-used-cars-climate-intl/index.html)
Tire pollution (the microplastics and metal pollutants that come off tires as people drive) is 2000x worse than tailpipe emissions, and EVs don't help with this.
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/07/09/tire-brake-tailpipes-emissions-pollution-cars/)
3,000 pound vehicles for personal transportation make these problems inescapable.
The only thing that makes sense is transitioning beyond cars in general.
#FuckCars #Mobility #Bikes #Transit #PublicTransit #CarFree #StrongTowns #EVs #Bicycles #Cycling #Walking #WalkableCommunities #PublicSpaces #SafeStreets #Housing #Density #Urban #Urbanism #TacticalUrbanism #Climate #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #Sustainability #SustainableTransitions
Dr. Jonathan Foley on X
Finally got an EV today. The Hyundai Ioniq 6. It’s costs about $7 to “fill it up” and even without renewable energy, it emits the equivalent CO2 as a car that gets 125 mpg in Minnesota. And it was cheaper (with tax breaks) than almost any other new car I could have bought.
MobilityMainehttps://mastodon.social/@CelloMomOnCars/109910011510962064 I’m looking for suburban examples of this in the U.S.: “Cambridge MA wrote an ordinance that says every time a street is re-surfaced, they MUST put in the best bike facilities that will fit on that street. NIMBYs bypassed: now it's a law. They build a new bike lane every few months now.” #bikelanes #biketooter #WalkableCommunities
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