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We will not solve our climate problem by adjusting the width of streets.

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English: Collateral Damage Affinity Group (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

 

 

 

 

 

We will not solve our climate problem by adjusting the width of streets. Incremental changes will not save our cities. Cities will be saved by designing car free areas of areas up to a mile square.  Cars and trucks will be relegated the periphery of future communities. Transportation within future communities will be mainly be by foot and bike. Vacant and wasteland areas can become new car free communities. Car free communities need have no stairs. Most future residences will be one level. Graded ways can easily enable transit between levels. A max of four levels is adequate to support a car free community of 5-10K.  Thinking outside the box is the only way forward. Car free communities will be forced on us by climate change. Even if climate was not a problem, car free communities would make complete sense.

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Economic recovery beyond sprawl, racism and climate change denial

A viable economy is integral and integrated

That is how you create local jobs

A viable economy will be cyber connected

Work does not require a long commute

A viable economy will spawn myriad new occupations

all keyed to new communities that are

car free and walkable

These communities will contain education and recreation

dwellings and places to purchase things from anywhere in the world

Squares with seating and snacks every few hundred feet

A recovery of public space

and face to face

via Economic recovery beyond sprawl, racism and climate change denial | ShortFormContent at Blogger.

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I care less about global warming than what oil and the car do regardless

I care less about global warming than what oil and the car do regardless

via Short Form Content at Blogger: I care less about global warming than what oil and the car do regardless.

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Three Posts on Japan’s Ongoing Nuclear Crisis

Three posts on Japan’s ongoing nuclear crisis will give any reader a sense of why more and more people are saying no to constructing new nuclear power plants.

Japan’s Nuclear Woes Continue

Troubles at the stricken nuclear complex in Japan continue to multiply, from how to dispose of vast quantities of radioactive water to to trade worries in L.A. to airport checks in Brazil.
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Japan Sunset

Japan Sunset – Quatrain by Stephen C. Rose. The Devastation in Japan was Made Visible in the Shocking Pictures of the Tsunami’s Advance – Over Dry Land One Second Then Inundated the Next
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Japan Should Do More Than Freeze Nuke Plant Construction

Quatrain. Japan could lead the whole world away from nuclear, away from oil, away from automobiles and create a minimalist paradise made up of high tech matrix construction of weather-proof communities and social access areas. Truth in 4 lines.

 

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Four Posts on Nukes

Four posts on nukes is part of an effort to move beyond nuclear energy as the solution to our energy crisis. The liabilities are too great and the reality is that there are free sources that people now say are too expensive. This is only because we fail to add up the costs of what we not have in death, injury and general destructiveness to the environment.

Past Nukes

Past Nukes – Quatrain by Stephen C. Rose Reaction to the Japan nuclear crisis is dividing into apocalyptic speculation on one hand and moral calculus on the other. The third and vital subject is sustainable alternatives.
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Panflick Says Zap Nukes Risk God’s Gifts of Sun and Wind

Panflick opposes cars. He is nauseated by the Big Dig. He thinks driving is an endangered activity with all the distraction and road carnage. He is a man of the future.
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Epitaph for Nukes

Epitaph for Nukes – Quatrain by Stephen C. Rose. It’s time to say that all nuclear reactors should be phased out. They are not safe for the future of our world. They all have lethal potential. Energy for the future should be both safe and natural.
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Nuke Fix

Nuke Suicide – Quatrain by Stephen C. Rose. A peroration preceded by a quatrain on the sad reality of our sentence structure. We speak of fixing nuclear plants. There is one way. Dismantle them.
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