By Harriet Blake
In Columbus, Ohio, yesterday Mayor Michael Coleman and his staff biked from their homes to the Ohio Statehouse, jacking up their heart rates and kicking-off the city’s 20-year Bicentennial Bikeways Plan.

Photo: City of Columbus
 
Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman
In Boston, Mayor Thomas Menino fought a stiff wind cycling a half mile from City […]

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By Bill Sullivan
Charles Stone expected to encounter a skeptic or two. He had done his research, and this outside-the-box idea seemed to make good sense, but the Director of Transportation for the Mansfield (Texas) Independent School District figured he still would have some explaining to do.
“Natural gas is a little unusual,” he says. “Most people […]

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By John DeFore
W Hotels, the boutique lodging brand of the Starwood Hotels empire, is getting in the Earth Day mood with a few promotions offering their more environmentally conscious guests some small ways to shrink the carbon footprint of their travel plans. Most straightforward is a promotional team-up with Puma, in which most locations […]

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By Barbara Kessler
If timing is everything, then premiering a film that champions biofuels at a time when the news media’s aflame with stories about the problems with biofuels must be a tad discouraging.
But Josh Tickell, creator of Fields of Fuel, does not seem discouraged. Determined, but not discouraged. Tickell, who has been been on […]

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By John DeFore
Generating power from the sea isn’t a new idea — “wave farms” are being planned around the world, hoping to transform the kinetic energy of waves into electricity. But using waves to power a boat is pretty novel, according to the adventurer who’s about to tackle an ambitious one-man voyage using nothing […]

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By Harriet Blake

Photo: Port of Long Beach
In 1989 the Exxon Valdez spilled 10.8 million gallons of crude oil into Alaska’s pristine Prince William Sound slathering wildlife and the untouched rocky shores with an inky, sticky coating of oil. The event created a powerful visual image of the sort of damage ocean ships can cause. A […]

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By Bill Marvel
Once upon a time in American cities, if you didn’t have a car you could still go almost anywhere. A network of steel rails and trolley wires laced together downtowns and neighborhoods, and ran far out into the countryside to connect with suburbs.

Photo by Geoffrey Marvel
 
DART trains pull into downtown Plano.
Electric interurbans […]

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By Harriet Blake
With the price of gas going off the charts, more than $3 a gallon nationwide, finding alternatives makes sense. Not owning a car is one possibility, and not using your own car 100 percent of the time is another.
For Bostonian Robin Chase, an option to the traditional mode of car transportation […]

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