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 [...]
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As most readers of the book and this blog know, I work in public health, and while the intersection of public health and going carless isn’t a big theme in the book, it’s a big interest of mine. On his blog (which I don’t visit often enough), Ken Archer rightly chides the CDC for [...] I talk quite a bit in the book about the relationship between transportation choices and our personal health, although as someone who often takes the train to beloved Chicago food destinations, I’m not always the best person to make the case. But this week, the New York Times reports on a study of the [...] All guidebooks contain some out of date information by the time they get published, and Carless in Chicago is no exception. Unfortunately, the CTA ensured that I’d have a bumper crop of such information when they introduced service cuts earlier this when the book was already too far along in the production process to [...] Every couple of days recently I’ve run across an article about Christopher Steiner’s new book, $20 Per Gallon: How the Inevitable Rise in the Price of Gasoline Will Change Our Lives for the Better. One of the more interesting ones is a recent piece in Forbes by Steiner himself exploring the relationship between gas [...] |
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