jonathan winston

san francisco, CA

http://www.bikescape.blogspot.com

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Hybrid Cars + Smart Growth = Carbon Knockdown

The reason we want businesses IN cities near the workers who live there too is becaues it wont be long before we won't be able to afford to move people between work and home if we continue down the road to sprawl. We had a small taste last summer of what peak oil has in store for us and we had better be ready when it kicks in.

The cities can be a good place to live. Jeanette Sadik-Kahn has gone a long way towards transforming New York into a more livable place.

http://www.streetfilms.org/archives/transforming-nyc-streets-with-jsk/

Even at the high-end extreme density of Hong Kong some streets are positively bucolic.

http://bikescape.blogspot.com/2009/02/getting-around-in-hong-kong.html

As for hybrids, the problem with them is that they are still cars. Cars are responsible for the death of unsuccessful cities. They turn the commons into a war zone, even if they do run on electricity.

There is no quick techno-fix for the situation we find ourselves in. Whether we like it or not, we are going to have to live differently to make it in the future. The days of cheap energy, whether its gas or generated electricty are over. The amount of pain we have to go through to make it over the bridge is directly proportionate to the will we can muster to make the hard changes we need to make right now.

jon