Anyone who makes any effort to live more sustainably has been there — facing the accusation that what you’re doing isn’t enough. That you’re compromising, and that your willingness to deviate from a purist approach invalidates your efforts. Sometimes these accusations come from within. And sometimes they make you want to give up. It’s the […]

Yesterday on the Streetsblog Network, we looked at the concept of "resilient cities" — an idea that some of our commenters on Streetsblog NY and Streetsblog LA sites frankly weren’t buying. Today, we have a post from Streetsblog Network member Smart Growth Around America about a city that is desperately searching for some definition of […]

The idea that cities are greener than suburbs has gotten a lot of attention lately. But a recently published book argues that in a future of diminishing resources, cities themselves are going to have to become much more efficient and inventive if they are to be sustainable — indeed, if they are to survive at […]

Over the past couple of months, we’ve been following a story in Savannah about a crackdown on jaywalking — a crackdown prompted by the death of a tourist who was hit by a car on Oglethorpe Avenue in the city’s historic district. Streetsblog Network member Sustainable Savannah has done a great job of articulating why […]

Streetcars provoke strong emotions in transpo geeks. A recent post on Human Transit called "Streetcars: An Inconvenient Truth" precipitated a very informed and sometimes heated thread of discussion on the relative virtues of light rail vs. bus rapid transit (a mode that got its moment in the limelight just this morning). Streetcars: Everybody’s got an […]

As the leaders of the G-8 meet in L’Aquila, Italy, to discuss how to tackle climate change on the global level, we bring you a report from Streetsblog Network member GreenCityBlueLake about a victory on the local level in Ohio. It shows how advocacy organizations can reframe the debate over transportation spending so that addressing […]

This morning, I’m making use of a mass transit system while sitting at my desk at home. That’s the way the writer of today’s featured post on the Streetsblog Network would see it, anyway. On network member blog New Geography, Nicole Belson Goluboff — a lawyer who specializes in the legal aspects of telecommuting — […]

An update today from Design New Haven, the excellent Streetsblog Network member that has been promoting the use of SeeClickFix. This rapidly growing service gives citizens a way to document problems in the public space, and back in March the issue getting the most attention in New Haven was the dangerous situation that exists for […]

If you’re a person who is accustomed to getting around the place you live without a car, you’ve probably spent at least some time trying to sell your auto-dependent friends on the concept. Maybe you’ve even gone so far as to map out a route for them so that they wouldn’t get frustrated. And sometimes […]

Yesterday’s New York Times blog item about why New York women are underrepresented among the city’s bike commuters didn’t sit well with the authors of Streetsblog Network member Let’s Go Ride a Bike. Trisha, one of the blog’s authors and a bike commuter herself in Nashville, sees the piece as part of a trend (epitomized […]

We hear the arguments again and again from DOTs: they need to widen highways and expand interchanges to improve safety on the nation’s roads. Streetsblog Network member The Political Environment, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, sees it differently:  Photo of the Marquette Interchange in Milwaukee by TracyJ_Brown via Flickr. [M]ost fatalities on the road are caused by […]