Huge Variation Between US Cities' Carbon Footprints »
Posted By Neophile 1 year, 6 months ago in Science & TechnologyThe Brookings Institute has released a new 80-page report detailing the carbon footprints of the residents of the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the United States.
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simonsez1 year, 6 months ago
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johnnyt1 year, 6 months ago
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i live in louisville and have lived in lexington. neither have public transportation worth anything. they have bus systems but they are undermanned and antiquated. lexington is geograpically about the same size of NY but only about 1/10 the population. 98% drive to work, and most have a drive of 30 min or more. being a relatively newer "metro" they really started developing after the independence of the automobile so why have public transportation. bad thinking now, but hind sight is 20/20. i would love to have an light rail transportation system. i would definately use it, but the current bus system only has lines running every 30 min or so and takes about 3 times as long and that doesnt even take into account the extra walking time (not that walking is not good for me)
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quackpot1 year, 6 months ago
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Ironically, it was a New Yorker, Robert Moses, who really got the car moving as a preferred means of transportation. He as a major urban developer who greatly favored highway construction (he called them "parkways") over mass transit construction.
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antibrainwasher1 year, 6 months ago
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Wikipedia:
The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, D.C.[1] One of Washington's oldest think tanks, Brookings conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics, metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, and global economy and development.[2] Their stated mission is to "provide innovative and practical recommendations that advance three broad goals: strengthen American democracy; foster the economic and social welfare, security and opportunity of all Americans and; secure a more open, safe, prosperous and cooperative international system."[1] Brookings states that its scholars "represent diverse points of view" and describes itself as non-partisan.
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Cityslicker1 year, 6 months ago
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Someone had some good stuff when they came up with this Gullible Warning scam and all this "carbon foot print" junk science .
How can Scientist figure a "carbon foot print" when local weather can't even be predicted with any certain accuracy , modeling software is flawed or not complete enough to even begin to touch on any kind of correct data , maybe years from now .
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1-2-Oscar1 year, 6 months ago
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he "study" certainly LOOKS as if it had been designed to produce a particular result, and to encourage certain "public" behaviors. It is presented as a study of the impact that individual behaviors have on consumption of energy and thus the production of carbon, yet it excludes industrial pollution, which would send cities like Houston, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans to the very top of the list. The carbon produced by people making a living apparently doesn't count. By the same token, rural areas and smaller cities, where public transportation is less practical, are punished for not having subways and light rail systems.
Brookings obviously wants to encourage public investment in mass transportation. That's probably not a bad idea, but I don't think that the more "progressive" areas are charged with all the carbon that was produced in making the steel rails, or the destruction of forests for crossties.
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First of all, in Houston the 'rail' only runs about 10 miles in the Downtown area.
Let me lay out Houston for those that don't know anything about it. Houston is actually about the size of the largest county in Texas (Harris). The estimated population is about 5million plus or minus.
Houston is 4-5 cities in one, the actual city limits are 60 miles across and that is only a part of what is known as 'Houston'.
You have not just one downtown but a few of them,, the 'proper downtown, on the east side of town close to the ship channel and the Chem plants, Greenway plaza and the Galleria areas to the west and the 'most congested' then you throw in the Woodlands to the north, Clear lake and NASA to the south and Katy farther to the west. Houston is massive in area, second to only LA.
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