#EMicroMobilityReducesEmissionsFastFairFrugalForEssentialWorkers: #congestionpricing accommodates cars and sprawl as a way of life and divests from the city. #15MinuteNeighborhoods linked by bikes with #ParisAlignedBuildingsInsteadOfSprawl are #UnGlamorousSolutions that don't accomodate #ForeverWarSubsidizesFossilFuelsAndSprawl all of which the democratic governor, who sent #CopCity to #Columbia, doesn't control.

#KeepItInTheGround

https://www.marketplace.org/2024/06/06/congestion-pricing-new-york-city-traffic-gridlock/

The $1T problem (Jigar Shah): Around the world, cooking-related tasks often fall primarily to women and girls. In homes dependent on polluting fuels (wood, dung, charcoal) for cooking, women and girls are exposed to devastating and avoidable smoke-related health risks. Where women are tasked with collecting firewood, they are often exposed to injury and violence. 1 in 3 lack access to fuel.

#TransitioningFromTheWoodEconomy #UnGlamorousSolutions #RefugeesAreCreatedByForeverWarsEthnicCleansingAndClimateChange

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hJ_6DsGFSSOyiT6rCtFLPw#/registration

@DoomsdaysCW Exactly, we know what to do, start with #UnGlamorousSolutions

https://www.thedrive.com/news/narrower-city-streets-could-actually-be-safer-study

#SpeedKills: “Our study of #city #lanewidths found that contrary to the current thinking, wider lanes in urban areas can lead to a higher number of #crashes and ultimately #fatalities,” said Shima Hamidi, Ph.D., Bloomberg Assistant Professor of American Health and director of the Center for Climate-Smart Transportation at the Bloomberg School.

#SpeedKills: "Here in Atlanta, our streets are... designed more for speed. Where policy decisions have resulted in more dangerous streets... By making changes to those 10% of streets, we could dramatically improve pedestrian safety in Atlanta," Serna said.

#20sPlenty #SafetyUnfunded #BDS #ParisMisAligned #UnGlamorousSolutions

https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/atlanta-pedestrian-deaths-propelatl-study-black-neighborhoods

https://truthout.org/articles/humanitarian-crisis-in-congo-is-the-sinister-underbelly-of-green-tech/

Writing off the price of #Transition with #GreenConsumption instead of #UnGlamorousSolutions- 6 million dead, 6.6 million displaced since 1996, #ExportedEmissions from the West, #AcceleratingKeelingCurve: “Western” mines now mostly owned by China.

#BipartisanClimateChange: Compared to #electric #passengercars, e-buses, and e-trucks, it’s #electricbikes and #trikes that are displacing the most #oil usage – more than twice all of those larger #EVs combined.

#UnGlamorousSolutions #WalkableCities #NetworkedSeparatedBikeLanes

https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2023/08/how-many-wheels-should-your-next-ev-have/

#BipartisanClimateChange: at the end of the day, it’s about appeasing the #highway #construction #firms, the #subdivision #developers that build off of highways, the beneficiaries of the #autocentric #statusquo. This is why these projects stay alive.

#RemoveRoads #WalkableCities #UnGlamorousSolutions

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2023/09/11/why-democrats-and-republicans-alike-keep-expanding-highways

#Lemmings jail #critics: It's something of a catch-22 most countries face, he said. In order to accumulate the finances needed to pay for the #greentransition, the #economy needs to continue #growing and that means energy production must keep up with demand.

https://www.dw.com/en/is-vietnam-backtracking-on-its-environmental-promises/a-65871084

#KeepItInTheGround
#GreenNewDeal
#UnGlamorousSolutions

#Corruption American Style: Of the 473 commissioners for whom Heern could find information on what they did after they left utility regulation, 50% of them went to work for one of the industries they regulated, or in an industry-adjacent role such as consulting.

#GoldenHandshake
#CorporateTheocracy
#UnGlamorousSolutions

https://www.latimes.com/environment/newsletter/2023-06-08/the-revolving-door-at-public-utilities-commissions-its-alive-and-well-boiling-point