World Carfree News #95 - May 2012 - English Version
"It ends all tax breaks, special financing arrangements and federal research and development funding. We ensure that never again can a company like BP take a tax deduction for money spent cleaning up its own mess in the Gulf of Mexico."
These are the words of Sen. Bernie Sanders, one of the lawmakers involved in introducing a new bill in the USA that would end fossil fuel subsidies.
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Please take a look at the latest issue of Carfree Times,
freshly baked with news and feature articles on Piscataquis
Village, Singapore and Bangalore.
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Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky has visited numerous
spots around the world that speak of the effects of oil and
landscapes and cities marked by its extraction, suburbia
created by its use. The show features in London's Photography
gallery through July 1.
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University College London is pleased to announced a fully
funded EngD (Engineering Doctorate) studentship to develop an
operational assessment method for cyclist-pedestrian shared
paths. The studentship is funded by Sustrans and Engineering
and Physical Science Research Council. Application deadline is
June 7, 2012.
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Progressive lawmakers in the USA have authored a bill which
proposes an end to fossil fuel subsidies. The measure is known
as "End Polluter Welfare Act" and would save the nation an
estimated $110 billion over ten years.
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Bike share program of New York City is becoming a reality, as
the sponsors for the program were announced: MasterCard and
Citibank. 10,000 bicycles will be distributed in 600 stations
throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn, and will be the biggest
system in the USA.
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Dushanbe, Tajikistan has just received its first ever bicycle
lane in the city of roughly 700,000 people. Regulations now
also call for the installation of bicycle lanes in new road
construction or renovations.
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A group called "Home Run" begins organising homeward jogs
after work along popular bus and tube routes in London.
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Italian prime minister Mario Monti offers his support for a
bicycle safety campaign in Rome and addresses the cycling
community, describing himself as a passionate cyclist.
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Carfree UK has initiated a small grants programme
aimed at groups in the UK that promote the carfree concept.
Up to five groups will receive a £1,000 support line for
envisioned projects. Deadline is July 15.
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Ecotopia Biketour 2012: Towards Degrowth (6th July - 19th September) - Join us!
We are very pleased to
announce that registration is now open. Along the route of
just over 2,000km we will visit squats, ecofarms and growing
projects, social centres, intentional communities, cycle
activists and bike workshops and take part in critical
masses and actions against dirty developments. We begin in
Barcelona and our final destination is the international
Degrowth conference in Venice.
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DEGROWTH CONFERENCE IN
VENICE
This fall, Venice will host the 3rd International Conference
on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity,
between 19-23 September. Issues concerning transport and urban
sustainability will also be discussed. Individuals affiliated
with World Carfree Network plan to attend, thus it is an
opportunity to network with like-minded activists, researchers
and pracititioners.
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A 2012 edition of Cycle Concepts has just been released by
the Cycling Embassy of Denmark, which contains numerous
updates from the 2000 edition, including new challenges and
the best in bicycle traffic experience.
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Some great renderings of urban space, that follows the
author's views that existing automobile infrastructure needs
to be adapted to something else.
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