The world’s oceans are overheating due to climate change, and their chemistry is being altered. Hundreds of millions of people who live along the coasts are now at risk, as is the entire network of systems that depend on the ocean. The ocean has absorbed over 90% of the heat from climate change and is the conduit for roughly 30% of human-caused …
National League of Cities urges cities to consider congestion charging systems
The National League of Cities (NLC) released a new guide that encourages cities to consider congestion charging systems as a potentially economical solution to build thriving communities, calm traffic and improve quality of life for residents. Congestion pricing is a type of road-user charge system in which a flat or variable rate fee is charged to vehicles that drive in a specified area …
How should congestion pricing work in the future? It may be based on “square-foot-second of road capacity”
How should congestion pricing work in the future? It may be based on “square-foot-second of road capacity” that accounts for the width of the vehicle, the size of the buffer zone around it, and the time you occupy that space. New York’s Adoption Of Congestion Charging Might Mean Something Much More Radical Could Come Brad Templeton, Forbes, 28 May 2019 …
$3.5 billion in direct fossil fuel subsidies handed out by US govt every year, not to mention billions in indirect subsidies, like allowing fossil fuel companies to freely pollute the world’s atmosphere and oceans, endangering life on Earth as we know it, without paying a dime
$3.5 billion in direct fossil fuel subsidies handed out by US govt every year, not to mention billions in indirect subsidies, like allowing fossil fuel companies to freely pollute the world’s atmosphere and oceans, endangering life on Earth as we know it, without paying a dime Who’s Behind The War On Electric Cars? May 17th, 2019 by Steve Hanley on Clean Technica If you …
The Technology That Could Transform Congestion Pricing: As cities like New York move ahead with plans to charge motorists to enter certain urban areas, we need to think about the best ways to manage road tolling
Motorists entering Manhattan will soon be paying for the privilege. How should the city administer their tolls? Mary Altaffer/AP MAY 8, 2019, ROBIN CHASE, Co-founder and former CEO of Zipcar, co-founder of NUMO, in City Lab Now that New York City has adopted congestion pricing in an effort to rein in traffic and raise revenue desperately needed to upgrade public transportation, other …
Nuclear Disaster: Fukushima’s Final Costs Will Approach A Trillion Dollars + Permanent Land Contamination
There’s a reasonable case for an identifiable $800 billion in costs for the nuclear portion of the Fukushima disaster. It’s not hard to see that a 40-year recovery period along with costs excluded from this could add 25% to that without breaking a sweat. When all the costs of Fukushima are added in, it’s easy to see that it will …
Road Pricing Can Fix Traffic and Inequities
New report from TransForm and NRDC puts equity at the center of the congestion pricing conversation. Carter Rubin , January 29, 2019 The Silver Line bus is funded in part from revenue from high-occupancy toll lanes on the I-10 and I-110 freeways. Los Angeles County Metro What do clogged roads, polluted air, slow transit and dangerous streets add up to in cities around …
L.A. may charge drivers by the mile, adding freeway tolls to cut congestion
By LAURA J. NELSON, LA Times JAN 22, 2019 Morning commuters face heavy traffic on the express lanes on the 10 Freeway. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s focus on congestion pricing could lead to similar lanes on other freeways across Los Angeles County. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times) For years, Southern California lawmakers have tried to steer clear of decisions that make …
A global minimum wage: If capitalism is going to be globalised, it makes sense that we should globalise the rules and standards that protect people from it as well
There’s an obvious solution: a global minimum wage. If capitalism is going to be globalised, it makes sense that we should globalise the rules and standards that protect people from it as well. Economist Thomas Palley recommends a floor set at 50% of each country’s median wage, so it would be tailored to local economic conditions and cause minimum disruption to comparative …
Scientific publishing is a rip-off. We fund the research – it should be free
George Monbiot in The Guardian, Thu 13 Sep 2018 Illustration: Eva Bee Never underestimate the power of one determined person. What Carole Cadwalladr has done to Facebook and big data, and Edward Snowden has done to the state security complex, the young Kazakhstani scientist Alexandra Elbakyan has done to the multibillion-dollar industry that traps knowledge behind paywalls. Sci-Hub, her pirate web scraper service, has done more …