Peak Oil and the ARRP
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San Francisco Peak Oil Preparedness Task Force to Present Report
Whether San Franciscans like it or not, the days of "happy motoring" -- as author James Howard Kunstler puts it -- are likely over. That's because since extraction of petroleum from the Earth's surface started on an industrial level in 1859, humanity has used up about half of the world's oil reserves, and because it is unlikely that there will be a technological fix to replace the energy that we

PARK(ing) Day in San Francisco; September 18, 2009
A map of pre-registered PARK(ing) Day locations in San Francisco.Friday, September 18 -- PARK(ing) Day -- was unusually hot in San Francisco. I headed out on my bicycle at about 11 a.m. to meet friends who had secured a parking spot on Valencia Street in San Francisco's Mission District. Along the way, I encountered ...... a spot taken over by the Mission Greenbelt Project, and ...... another

The Center for Public Integrity on the Renewal of the 2005 Omnibus Transportation Bill
HomeArticles ▼ IntroductionLobbying A Lobbying Free-for-All MapAbout This Project Track this investigation facebook twitter A Lobbying Free-for-All Thousands of Special Interests Vie for Influence on New

Evaluating Obama and Transportation Policy So Far
This piece recently appeared in the Prague-based publication, Carbusters. The editor there gave me permission to reprint it here.As the most powerful person in the world, President Barack Hussein Obama has an unenviable task – saving humanity from its inclination to environmental self-destruction by transforming the way Americans travel. Obama’s Secretary of Transportation, Ray LaHood, does a