World Streets This Week 27 June 2011

From the editor's desk

For the record this is a period in which your editor is making quite a wide four way stretch. At one level there is the dialy challenge of to maintaining the inputs and quality of the journal. At another, the time-consuming search for support from foundations or public agencies to ensure that we can continue the program. And then there is the challenge of advancing the ongoing sister programs in Italy and Portugal, and in addition to all that we have our new and I think really quite wonderful new collaborative initiative, The Streets of Iran ("in Iran every morning 75 million men, women and children wake up and have to find a way to get safely to their places of work, study, shopping, and visits to hospitals, friends and family. SOI is reporting on this in a new wide open collaborative framework. And finally there is our new parallel program on Sustainable Development, Business & Society, which we have launched precisely because we feel that many including many people and programs in our area of sustainable transport so not have a sufficiently well developed understand of the basics.

The New Economics of Sustainable Development

Eric Britton, editor | 27 June 2011 at 07:32 | Categories: behavior, Europe, Governance, New economics, paradigm change, policy, sustainability | URL: http://wp.me/psKUY-1JV

To negotiate the move from old to new mobility, we have to understand as well the importance of moving from old to new economics. Back in 1997 James Robertson, respected British economist, monetary reformer and policy counsel to government, took a hard look at "The New Economics of Sustainable Development" in a report prepared for the Forward Studies Unit of the European Commission. Today, half a generation later, this exceptionally insightful piece still brings up points to which we should be giving attention. It is unfortunate that the clock has stood still for this important part of the sustainability dialogue. No wonder we are making so very little progress in the right direction. Let's have a close look at what James has to propose and mull it all over from a 2011 perspective.
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Bike-Sharing: 2011 State of the European Union report

Eric Britton, editor | 25 June 2011 at 15:16 | Categories: bikeshare, Cycling, Europe, handbook | URL: http://wp.me/psKUY-1JC

As regular readers of World Streets by now know well, we consider bicycles as the mine canaries of sustainable transport and sustainable cities. When you can hear them singing, everything is going pretty much in the right direction. But silence or absence, and hey you are in deep trouble. As part of our long-term watching brief under our freefor-all World City Bike Collaborative since 2005, we try to keep track of what is going on both at the leading and the lagging edge with both bikes and infrastructure, and public bicycle systems, in all parts of the world, from China and Africa, to Paris and Portland.
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Climate of Denial: Can science and the truth withstand the merchants of poison?
Eric Britton, editor | 24 June 2011 at 08:56 | Categories: climate, Governance, politics, Rolling Stone, sustainability | URL: http://wp.me/psKUY-1Ja

From the New York Times, 22 June 2011: "Former Vice President Al Gore sharply criticized President Obama as lacking leadership on climate change in a magazine essay published online Wednesday, saying his policies had been little more effective than those of President George W. Bush. In the 7,000-word article in Rolling Stone," But the truth, if you read on you will see, is considerably more compacted than that. This series of critical remarks present a major challenge to the existing political order. Before turning to the full article, let us consider these tough words which merit our full attention. "Those who profit from the unconstrained pollution that is the primary cause of climate change are determined to block our perception of this reality. They have help from many sides: from the private sector, which is now free to make unlimited and secret campaign contributions; from politicians who have conflated their tenures in office with the pursuit of the people's best interests; and tragically from the press itself, which treats deception and falsehood on the same plane as scientific fact, and calls it objective reporting of alternative opinions.. "
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Going down? Newman and Kenworthy on Peak Car Use

Eric Britton, editor | 23 June 2011 at 11:19 | Categories: behavior, car owner/drivers, Cars, World Transport Policy and Practice | URL: http://wp.me/psKUY-1Is

This is an important article. It appears simultaneously in the Summer of 2011 edition of our sister publication, the Journal of World Transport Policy and Practice. With a view to ensuring its broadest international readership we are posting it here with pleasure, and with permission of the authors. We do this with particular interest on the grounds that their central thesis -- that is, our faster than one might have expected evolving attitudes toward car ownership and use -- is one that is central to the preoccupations of World Streets and all our associated programs. Read more of this post Add a comment to this post

Bike-Share Thriving in Africa

Eric Britton, editor | 22 June 2011 at 11:22 | Categories: Africa, bikeshare, Cycling, Guest editorial | URL: http://wp.me/psKUY-1Jn

Bike sharing, despite all that is going on world wide in many places, is still very much a new concept that still harbors many unknowns. Including a very wide range of "business plans" as needed to get them started and keep them going. Associate editor, Gail Jennings, reports on how bike sharing looks from an African perspective. Read more of this post Add a comment to this post

Help Wanted Department: Donald Appleyard is (almost) not on Wikipedia

Eric Britton, editor | 21 June 2011 at 06:59 | Categories: Help wanted, op-ed, World Transport | URL: http://wp.me/psKUY-1Ig

To: John Whitelegg, Editor, WTPP Dear John, Your editorial and latest edition of World Transport got me to thinking once again about the great work of Donald Appleyard -- to the extent in which I have decided to make his 1981 publication of Livable Streets into a significant milestone in the process of sustainable development accomplishment and awareness in the context of the course which I am currently developing at http://sustain.ecoplan.org Read more of this post Add a comment to this post

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World Transport Policy & Practice Vol. 17, No. 2
Eric Britton, editor | 21 June 2011 at 11:22 | Categories: Africa, bikeshare, Cycling, Guest editorial | URL: http://wp.me/psKUY-1Jn

The Journal of World Transport Policy and Practice is the long-standing idea and print partner of World Streets and the New Mobility Agenda since 1995. The Summer 2011 edition appears with articles by Bruce Appleyard, Joshua Hart and Graham Parkhurst, and Peter Newman and Jeff Kenworthy. In the article that follows you will find the lead editorial by founding editor John Whitelegg. (For a more complete introduction to World Transport click here.) - - > To obtain your copy of WTPP 17/2 click here.

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