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What’s the greatest threat to our planet? Is it nuclear war, overpopulation, automobiles, cow flatulence, pestilence, aliens? Nope. The greatest threat to our planet is … Cul-De-Sacs That’s right, cul-de-sacs, tract lawns, private homes, strip malls, traffic jams, subdivisions, franchise-built parking lots, three garages, clogged roads, 20 minute car trips to work, church, eat, shop, [...]

Are Critical Mass rides pro-cycling or anti-car? I’m not talking about the common accusation that a large group of cyclists occupying an entire lane is anti-car in itself; that merely shows how far our perceptions have been shaped by car dominance. Roads are for transporting people, not automobiles, so if most people choose to use [...]

The G20 are meetng in London, and the inevitable protests are inevitably met with police opposition. The press do a pretty good job of painting protestors as dangerous and police as responsible and calm (and it’s not just the Telegraph, it’s almost all of

Power company E-On is hoping to build the first new coal-fired power station in the UK for a generation on the site of its present station at Kingsnorth in Kent. At a time of climate crisis, it’s an obscenity. Yes, the UK will need to burn coal for a while yet, but it’s a dirty [...]

Do you remember how for years, ticket machines at stations have only required your credit/debit card, and not a booking reference number? Be warned, they now need the reference number again. I discovered this to my cost on Saturday morning, when a machine refused to give me my ticket! Thankfully, I eventually got it sorted [...]