http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/11/13/is-it-green-zipcar/ Future-forward design for the world you inhabit Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:18:17 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/11/13/is-it-green-zipcar/comment-page-1/#comment-111360 anasg Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:42:02 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/11/13/is-it-green-zipcar/#comment-111360 I live in Chicago and because there is public transportation we decided not to by a car and use a car sharing program. I looked into Zipcar and I-go and went with I-go because they had more hybrids on there fleet. We absolutely love it and have never wished we had a car. it works really well. I live in Chicago and because there is public transportation we decided not to by a car and use a car sharing program. I looked into Zipcar and I-go and went with I-go because they had more hybrids on there fleet. We absolutely love it and have never wished we had a car. it works really well.

]]> http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/11/13/is-it-green-zipcar/comment-page-1/#comment-111282 IslandPress Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:19:41 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/11/13/is-it-green-zipcar/#comment-111282 Speaking of urban sprawl, Peter Newman, Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University in Perth, Australia, talks about how the current economic turmoil originiated in part from high capacity roads, peri-urban scatter and large fossil fuel-hungry houses. He offers solutions to the crisis based around new technologies (such as Transit Oriented Development, reduced dependance on oil and fossil fuels) and a shift away from "propping up of the old systems": http://blog.islandpress.org/241/peter-newman-resiliant-cities-and-the-crash Speaking of urban sprawl, Peter Newman, Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University in Perth, Australia, talks about how the current economic turmoil originiated in part from high capacity roads, peri-urban scatter and large fossil fuel-hungry houses. He offers solutions to the crisis based around new technologies (such as Transit Oriented Development, reduced dependance on oil and fossil fuels) and a shift away from “propping up of the old systems”: http://blog.islandpress.org/241/peter-newman-resiliant-cities-and-the-crash

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