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Richard Risemberg | 2 Jun 2003 01:29

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June Issue of The New Colonist

The June issue of the New Colonist is online and available at 
http://www.newcolonist.com.  This month's articles include:

*World Without Oil
Lise Maring explores the hidden extent of oil dependency, and all that 
we will lose when the last drop of crude has been poured into a gas tank 
a few years from now

*Looking Backward, Looking Forward
Simon Baddeley outlines the next generation of strategies for 
extricating us from the auto-addiction trap

*San Francisco House Tours
A prospective regular feature takes you on a virtual tour of teh Castro 
Districts distinctive architecture

*Fear the Sower
Richard Risemberg raves about George Bush and Frankenfoods

*Pounding the Pavement
Eric Miller looks at car dependency, community design, and fat

*San Francisco's Cafe Society
Wilson Fang reports on teh pleasures of the buzzbean in Nroth America's 
coffeehouse capital

*Street Food: Pink's
G. S. Morey deconstructs LA's legendary hot dog stand

Not to mention our City Pages, Archives, and more, all available now at

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Richard Risemberg | 2 Jun 2003 05:31

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New York Looks at London's Traffic Tolls


<http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-gridlock1jun01,1,3035675.story?coll=la%2Dhome%2Dtodays%2Dtimes>

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J.H. Crawford | 2 Jun 2003 13:05

Serious error in NC


Hi Rick,

US oil consumption is given as 19 billion barrels/year,
with world consumption at 28 BBY

Correct figures, according to EIA, and in approx. agreement
with the numbers I work with, are

19 MILLION barrels a DAY for USA
77 MILLION barrels a DAY world total.

The USA is a hog, but it's not using +/- 60% of world production.

Fix me now!!!!!!

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Richard Risemberg | 2 Jun 2003 16:42

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Re: Serious error in NC

J.H. Crawford wrote:

> US oil consumption is given as 19 billion barrels/year,
> with world consumption at 28 BBY
> 
> Correct figures, according to EIA, and in approx. agreement
> with the numbers I work with, are
> 
> 19 MILLION barrels a DAY for USA
> 77 MILLION barrels a DAY world total.
> 
> The USA is a hog, but it's not using +/- 60% of world production.
  I checked the figures and reconciled the quote in the article with the 
DOE stats.

Richard
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Ross or Judy | 2 Jun 2003 19:25

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oil consumption

> > The USA is a hog

People most often leave out Canada when they are talking about energy hogs.
Per capita Canadians are at least as bad as Americans, burning about 30
times as much as Indians.
Ross

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Colin Leath | 3 Jun 2003 02:45

Is an Ecovillage world possible? Some new articles on carfreeuniverse

(My apologies to Carfree and carfreeecovillages list-- this
is a bit of a duplicate.)

The most relevant to these lists is the first article
mentioned below.

The point I'd encourage others to consider is that
carfreeness within existing cities is likely to come from
people in ecovillages (or other similar neighborhood
associations) working with the bureacracy.

What prompted this thinking was the article in
http://directory.ic.org/

about http://ecomagic.org

That small intentional community has been instrumental in
getting street closings in Palo Alto.

Some related resources are:
http://fic.ic.org/cmag/
http://eurotopia.de/

Vocal communities will be able to maintain the activism and
energy needed to make parts of cities car-free. Isolated
individuals are less likely to do so. The problem needs to
be tackled from the bottom and the top, and at the bottom
will most likely be urban ecovillages!

Also visit this post on converting suburbs to ecovillages:

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Richard Risemberg | 3 Jun 2003 16:43

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First Irvine, Now Comes Its Downtown


<http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-irvine3jun03,1,6028114.story?coll=la-headlines-california-manual>

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dan_belich | 3 Jun 2003 20:41

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Whatever happened to politicians who support mass transit?

Nice article in the Patriot Ledger (Quincy, Mass.) on a former
Governor and Presidential candidate who supports public transit:

http://ledger.southofboston.com/display/inn_news/news206.txt

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Colin Leath | 3 Jun 2003 21:56

Re: First Irvine, Now Comes Its Downtown

Could you or someone give a summary?

The LATimes has started a hideous registration process,
which I do not intend to undertake.

thanks!

Colin
http://j9k.org

On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Richard Risemberg wrote:

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Robert J. Matter | 4 Jun 2003 02:18

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London's Daring Traffic Move: Successful, But Right For Us?

http://www.postwritersgroup.com/archives/peir0512.htm 

London's Daring Traffic Move: 
Successful, But Right For Us? 

Neal Peirce 

Word of London's "congestion pricing" scheme--an $8 charge each day 
for any vehicle that video cameras spot driving in the traffic-strangled 
city center--broke on a startled world in February.  

Drivers would have to register for daily use via cell phone, Internet, or at 
retail shops across the city. The fine for not registering: $128.  

So strong is our global reverence for cars that no world city has dared 
try such a scheme since a single (and highly successful) plan was instituted in authoritarian 
Singapore in 1977.  

Predictably, opponents saw immediate disaster if the London plan, a brainchild of the city's 
controversial mayor, Ken Livingstone, actually took effect. Average speeds of 3 miles an 
hour, said critics, would paralyze large parts of the city. The rush of new passengers would 
engulf the city's public transit system. The system of 700 video cameras to read license 
plate numbers would misfire and crash.  

But Livingstone persevered, the system kicked off Feb. 17, and now weekday traffic in the 
eight-square-mile central London zone has declined almost 20 percent. Result: Normally 
clogged streets have opened up. Taxis are abundant; red double-decker buses make their 
rounds much more rapidly.  

About 100,000 people pay the toll each day; the cameras catch 3,000 or so scofflaws who

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