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Links: writing, activism, First Nations, Arctic, immigration, and walking
A selection of links I found interesting from around the web 1) How to write about your science from SciDev.Net 2) Rob Hopkins from Transition Towns writes about the tension between creating change and activism in Transition and activism: a … Continue reading
Posted in Cities, General, Links, Networks
Tagged activism, arctic, Canada, climate change, facebook, first nations, immigration, science writing, Toronto, Transition Towns, transport, walkable neighbourhoods
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Peak Travel?
A new paper in Transport Reviews by Adam Millard-Ball and Lee Schipper asks Are We Reaching Peak Travel? Trends in Passenger Transport in Eight Industrialized Countries. Ball and Schipper looked at data from 1970-2008 in the United States, Canada, Sweden, … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptation, Visualization
Tagged Adam Millard-Ball, CO2 emissions, energy, graph, Lee Schipper, predictions, transport
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Self-organized traffic safety
The UK County Surveyor’s Society Transport Futures group has just published a report Travel is Good that considers how to deal with problems likely to be encountered in transport over the next 20 years. They recommend increasing uncertainty and allowing … Continue reading