For this week’s post I am writing about transportation and a very interesting study on the Life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions from passenger cars in the European Union published by International Council on Clean Transportation.
Electric vehicles emits 4 times less CO2 than internal combustion engines ones Read More »
While browsing my RSS feeds, I found on Inhabitat a great idea on how to park dozens of bikes without wasting space in streets. Only eight meters wide and eleven meters deep, a single Eco Cycle parking can store 204 bikes. The Japanese company Giken has installed many of these in Tokyo and around Japan.
A great Japanese idea to park bikes Read More »
Urban sprawl poses many problems in terms of infrastructures to maintain, increased energy consumption and last but not least important health and environmental issues. With the economic downturn and high energy prices, people are sometimes returning to the urban cores. This leaves empty houses and even districts. In some cases these suburbs are litterally bulldozed
The end of urban sprawl ? Read More »
