Articles tagged “trains”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

A Handful of No-Fly Travel Options for the Holidays By Jeff Kart IN Travel & Outdoors Nov 22 2011 A Top Five No-Fly List from the U.K. gives us a few U.S. ideas, too. From trains to ferries, feet to bikes. + READ MORE

Insect-Eating Plants, Beauty Gush, Cowbells, Risotto, and Trotti'ing... A Trip in Switzerland By Laurel House IN Travel & Outdoors Oct 17 2011 What's the point of traveling half way around the world only to sit in a tour bus and "see" the sights? Next time you travel, don't just sit there, get in there! Ask the tourism bureau about festivals (like the Alpabfart Festival), find out about local favorite activities and foods, then go and experience them! Your vacation, and your life, will be richer because of it. Here's a sampling of what you can do when in Switzerland. + READ MORE

The Top 10 U.S. Cities for Public Transportation By Julia Austin IN Travel & Outdoors Sep 29 2011 The best pizza. The most beautiful women. The finest wines. Plenty of cities claim to have these. But which cities are competing for a medal that means a greener, possibly longer-lasting planet? These ten cities have committed substantial budgets and time to making public transit not only accessible, but also appealing. + READ MORE

Make Tracks for Traincations, the Newest Travel Trend By Jeff Kart IN Travel & Outdoors Aug 16 2011 They're calling Traincations "so hot." As in, so cool, and so much better than planes and automobiles. + READ MORE

Walrus Pee/Car -Free Father/Daughter Getaway By Laurel House IN Travel & Outdoors Jun 16 2011 The last time my dad took me to the zoo, a walrus pee’d in his mouth then spit up into the crowd… spraying me in the face. I was 7. I haven’t been back since. But this year, 26 years later, my dad and I decided to take a car-free getaway to Santa Barbara to celebrate Father’s Day. In an attempt to get over my Zoo issues, we also decided to visit the Santa Barbara Zoo. It was a definite father/daughter bonding vacation. Thankfully there were zero walrus sightings. + READ MORE

Car-Free Road Trip… Greener, Cheaper, and Less Stressful! By Laurel House IN Travel & Outdoors Apr 1 2011 Sure, a driving road trip can be spontaneous and convenient, but you inevitably sit in traffic, spend an arm and a leg on gas and pay up the wazoo for parking. And airports have their own sack full of stress. Really, the easiest, least stressful, dime-saving way to travel these days is by track. Train tracks that is. + READ MORE

Sierra Club has 300 Ways to Get Outdoors By Jeff Kart IN Travel & Outdoors Jan 22 2011 Maybe it's time you stopped making plans to see the great outdoors, and actually went wild? See these epic adventures offered by Sierra Club Outings. + READ MORE

Indonesia Launches Women-only Trains By Rachel Cernansky IN Tech & Transport Aug 20 2010 Jakarta has launched what seems like a pretty unique method of combatting sexual harassment in public transportation: women-only trains. + READ MORE

Open Data is Bringing Public Transportation Into the 21st Century By Michael Graham Richard IN Tech & Transport Aug 3 2010 To make the world greener, we need better ways for people to move around. One easy way to make public transportation more effective is to open up the databases of transportation agencies. It doesn't cost anything, and can generate a lot of innovation. + READ MORE

Let's Make Our Cities Safe for the Sick and the Frail By Michael Graham Richard IN Tech & Transport Jul 27 2010 Too many of our cities force the frail and the sick to choose between isolation or driving, which can be unsafe for everybody. Truly green cities need to provide safe and efficient transportation for everybody, including the weakest members of society. + READ MORE

Meet the Algorithm that Cut Delays in Half for German Trains By Michael Graham Richard IN Tech & Transport Jul 23 2010 It is possible to make transit faster and more reliable using advanced computer algorithms. That's exactly what the ARRIVAL project in Europe is showing us. + READ MORE

China High Speed Rail (Video News) By Team Planet Green IN Features Mar 15 2010 China plans to bid for contracts to build a high speed rail network in the US, clocks in America spring forward to usher in Daylight Savings Time, and Designer Karl Largerfeld debuts his Chanel Fall Winter 2010 Collection in front of a 265 ton glacier. + READ MORE

What's the Future of Passenger Railroad? (Interview with James McCommons) By Makenna Goodman IN Tech & Transport Nov 20 2009 With the doom and gloom of climate change and the frightening post-peak oil reality, it's hard to understand why the US is so far behind the times when it comes to trains. Whatever happened to the days of cross-country landscapes zooming by from a sleeper car? Or how about just plain old common sense, sustainable mass transit? It's crucial to consider the future of transportation in this country. So while we're shelling out gazillions in gas money (depleting what little reserves we actually have), passenger trains are rusting on their tracks--and what a waste it is. + READ MORE

My Sultry Summer Park Slope Staycation By Jessica Root IN Travel & Outdoors Jul 20 2009 This past weekend, instead of hopping the train to a Connecticut or Long Island beach, the Hamptons or taking a road trip to Upstate New York—like so many of my fellow New York City dwellers—I decided to take a mini-staycation right here in my hometown, Park Slope, Brooklyn. + READ MORE

7 Ways the Troubled Automotive Industry Could Change Your Car and Your Commute By Eric Leech IN Tech & Transport Jun 22 2009 It is a big question what to do with the crumbled auto industry. While there are a lot of different opinions on the matter, the one thing that we all can agree with is there is going to be some changes. Let's look at a few of the biggest changes you can expect, both directly and indirectly related to the retooling of the automotive industry. + READ MORE

Top 10 Things You Need to Make Your Cross-Country Bus Trip Comfortable By Josh Peterson IN Travel & Outdoors Jun 19 2009 The bus is one of the most environmentally responsible ways to travel. A cross-country bus trip emits half as many carbon emissions as a cross-country train trip. Planes are the greatest consumers of fuel. They produce about a ton of CO2 on a cross-country flight, and driving by yourself is comparable to a plane ride over long distances. + READ MORE

Gear Your Vacation Around the "Getting There Greener" Guide By Jessica Root IN Travel & Outdoors May 28 2009 Wanting to show that the journey is just as important as the final eco-destination, The Union of Concerned Scientists released a comprehensive analysis of the highest and lowest carbon options for vacation travel. + READ MORE

Travel Green: Explore a City With A Mass Transit Tour By Elizabeth Seward IN Travel & Outdoors Apr 23 2009 I know that being green isn't going to stop you from exploring other cities—or even your own city. And it shouldn't. But exploring and traveling the green way demands just a bit of finesse, and it's something we try to address as often as possible. Before you hop in your car and embark on a fun spring road trip, consider a mass transit tour. Even if you have to drive to the city you're visiting (and really consider whether or not you 'have to' drive. Being a New Yorker who travels multiple times a month without the aid of a car, I can tell you: trains and buses do work; and they work well), you can still save some fuel by hopping on a mass transit tour. + READ MORE

Have to Fly For Business? 5 Tips to Green Your Trip By Mat McDermott IN Tech & Transport Apr 21 2009 If you're like me—trying to minimize the impact your electricity use, your diet, your daily transportation and your things have on the planet?and have analyzed the carbon footprint of your whole life using a tool such as WattsOn, you very quickly see that one or two trips a year by plane can equal the impact of the + READ MORE

Guide to Obama's High-Speed Rail Plans, Bad Biofuel Policy Put Half a Million Virtual Cars on the Road, and Celebrate World Oceans Day By David DeFranza IN Tech & Transport Apr 16 2009 Today on TreeHugger: Guide to Obama's high-speed rail plans, bad biofuel policy put half a million virtual cars on the road, and celebrate World Oceans Day. + READ MORE