If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.
We have to craft new political realities, not only in places like India, Afghanistan, Kenya, Pakistan, but here at home as well. Another world is possible.
The denser places get, the lower the amount of energy people use to get around it.
Cabbies in particular seem to like discussing the fate the Earth.
In almost all city governments in America, the small group of people who don't want change are able to block change.
Cities offer us powerful leverage on our most stubborn, wasteful practices. Long commutes in our cars, big power bills from our energy-hogging buildings, shopping trips to buy stuff that'll spend a few short months in our homes and long centuries in our landfills.
Copenhagen has done a remarkable job creating streets that are focused on bicycles and pedestrians.
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