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Attend Mindful Metropolis’s Carbon Nation Screening and Get a Free Copy of CiC!

On September 23, Mindful Metropolis will be hosting a reception and screening for Carbon Nation, a new film from Peter Byck about climate change solutions. And thanks to the generosity of my publisher, Lake Claremont Press, the first 100 people to buy tickets online will receive a FREE copy of Carless in Chicago!  I’ll [...]

More on Active Transit and Obesity

I’m not the best poster child for the calorie burning benefits of giving up car ownership since I tend to use my more active lifestyle as justification for eating more ice cream. But in my real job working in public health, a lot of my projects concern the relationship between active transportation choices and [...]

Economics of Parking

In the book, I briefly mention Donald Schoup’s excellent book, The High Price of Free Parking, but I don’t go into great detail about how changing the way we price parking might improve our quality of life. As it happens, a couple weeks ago, economist Tyler Cowen wrote a great Op-Ed about this very [...]

More thoughts on B-Cycle

Apparently, I’m not the only one who has these concerns about B-Cycle’s model.