the United States was not built around cars.
the infrastructure of the United States was destroyed to make way for cars.
Car tires are major source of ocean microplastics – study
Wind-borne microplastics are a bigger source of ocean pollution than rivers, say scientists More than 200,000 tonnes of tiny plastic particles are blown from roads into the oceans every year,…
Road Ecology with Ben Goldfarb
In his new book, Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping The Future of Our Planet, independent conservation journalist Ben Goldfarb writes about how roads and cars are wreaking havoc on…
Car pollution
6PPD, a chemical found in tires, is devastating aquatic life. Earthjustice is fighting to protect the impacted species and ecosystems.
Traffication with Paul Donald
In his groundbreaking book, Traffication: How Cars Destroy Nature and What We Can Do About It, scientist and researcher Paul Donald synthesizes dozens of studies to help us understand what…
The High Cost of Free Parking with Donald Shoup
Parking is at the heart of every fight about how we build our cities and towns, with effects that go far beyond transportation. Minimum parking requirements — laws that dictate…
How GM Enabled Modern Capitalism — and Environmental Crisis
In this system, one of the worst things a company can do is to make a cheap product that lasts a long time. If they do, where will the year-over-year…
The inherent paradox of cars
The model showed a phenomenon anyone who’s driven in a city is surely familiar with: This choice creates an inherent paradox. If more people decide that driving is quicker, there…
What’s the future of the Metro Detroit commute?
"The past year made a lot of people have to think differently about how they work and what their daily routines look like, and also made a lot of people…