Just announced!! The third annual Ohio Sustainable Transportation online conference, April 6, 2023, 9:30 AM - 7 PM. This follows two very successful online meetings discussing how to move Ohio forward in sustainable mobility. Be part of the future!
Young people are the future, and they don’t want to drive. Our leaders must stop thinking of the world as they want it and start planning the world the future wants.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2023/02/13/gen-z-driving-less-uber/
“It’s not race, it’s racism. The data are quite clear that this isn’t about biology. This is about the environments where we live, where we work, where we play, where we sleep.”
Do you want to know why expanding roads and highways won’t solve the traffic impacts of the Intel development, discussed in today’s Columbus Dispatch? Watch this OSU CURA webinar on the Impacts of Intel on Transportation. We discussed induced traffic, and other reasons why more roads are not the answer.
Another excellent essay by @DavidZipper. Self-driving vehicles - IF they ever work - will lower the individual burden of driving, leading to more driving, more sprawl and more climate impacts. Jevon’s Paradox explains why.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90846919/self-driving-cars-would-be-a-climate-disaster
Gentrification by fire: Climate change is pushing up the price of homes in much of the American West, as fires and flooding carve into existing housing stock and restrict the amount land suitable for future building. (gifted, no paywall)
Measuring atmospheric CO2 is not easy: a volcanic eruption disrupted the longest-running record of a major greenhouse gas that is causing the climate crisis
Cars have eaten our brains
https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/31/23579510/car-brain-motornormativity-study-ian-walker
In the past decade, the White population increased significantly in urban cores across the country, bringing changes both sweeping and personal. Gifted article; no paywall
My work with CURA is featured in the February 2023 newsletter from the OSU Office of Outreach and Engagement.
@EthanHolmes@mastodon.social You are misreading the article if that’s what you think it says. The point is that just electrifying our cars and continuing car dependency in our mobility systems will not work.