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Auto Free New York Meeting – Charles Komanoff on the Carbon Tax
What do Mayor Bloomberg's congestion pricing plan and a tax on carbon emissions have in common? Plenty. Join Streetsblog ontributor Charles Komanoff, co-founder and co-director of the new Carbon Tax Center, for a discussion of the economics and politics of a U.S. carbon tax, at the monthly meeting of Auto-Free New York. Yes, there will be ample time to discuss the Mayor's pricing plan as well.
March 23, 2007
SWIM Coalition Kickoff – Groups to Ask Mayor Bloomberg to Make Waterways Clean Enough For Swimming
The Storm Water Infrastructure Matters coalition (S.W.I.M.), a new city-wide environmental group, will hold an outdoor event, that will include kayakers, river waders, water quality monitoring, a short film (indoors) and water toy races. The event, part of the global observance of World Water Day, will kick off a concerted campaign to make all of NYC's waterways safe for recreation, including swimming.
March 20, 2007
Livable Streets Discussion and Happy Hour
Cities worldwide are embracing new ideas about mass transit, congestion pricing, parking, public squares, mixed used development, and more, yet New York City's transportation policies often seem as though they are stuck in the 1960s. But the sustainable transportation movement in New York City is alive in Streetsblog, StreetFilms, Transportation Alternatives, the Municipal Art Society, Project for Public Spaces, and other organizations along with many individual blogs and community groups.
March 20, 2007
Presentation: Brooklyn Bridge Park Transportation and Access Study
The traffic engineers conducting the Brooklyn Bridge Park Transportation and Access Study will present their preliminary findings at this public meeting. The study, which included important public input, reviewed transit options to-and-from the park such as bicycle/pedestrian improvements, bus route modifications and vertical connections.
March 19, 2007
Talk: Taxi Technology
The American Planning Association New York Metro Chapter's Transportation Committee presents ...
March 17, 2007
Seminar: Personal Mobilities, Contemporary Cities, and Urban Life
CUNY Institute for Urban Systems presents ...
March 17, 2007
Hyper Motorization in China: Is There No Way Back?
NYU Wagner Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management and CUNY Institute for Urban Systems present ...
March 17, 2007
NYMTC Brown Bag Seminar: Promoting Safe Walking and Cycling to Improve Public Health: Lessons from Europe
The New York Metropolitan Transportation Council presents ...
March 17, 2007
Charles Komanoff: Getting the Price Right: The Case for Carbon Taxation
Charging American businesses and individuals a price to emit carbon dioxide (CO2) is essential to reduce U.S. emissions quickly enough to prevent atmospheric concentrations of CO2 from reaching an irreversible tipping point. It’s a bedrock economic principle that prices of goods and services should reflect ("internalize" as the economists say) all of the societal costs (such as pollution) that production of the goods or services imposes on society. Yet the prices of gasoline, electricity and fuels in general don’t include many of these societal costs, particularly their impact on global warming.
March 14, 2007
Majora Carter: Communities as Assets, Not Omelets
Robert Moses said, "You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs." So, who ordered the omelet? Big projects promise big returns, but may disproportionately benefit the well-connected. Are the economic fibers that connect communities undermined as a result? In a provocative lecture, Majora Carter, Executive Director of Sustainable South Bronx, will discuss the implications of the "top-down" paradigm that she argues characterizes development today. Presented in conjunction with Robert Moses and the Modern City: Remaking the Metropolis.
March 14, 2007