Maintained
by author J.H. Crawford, carfree.com
is perhaps the most thorough and well documented website on the
subject of living without automobiles. It contains tremendous
amount of links, and articles on everything from urban planning
to package delivery.
The
Sierra Club Challenge
to Sprawl Campaign site gives an in-depth examination of the
negative effects of urban-sprawl, and offers noteworthy solutions.
This
is the EPA's
site about acid rain. It details where acid rain comes from,
what it does, and why it’s a problem we need to solve.
Adbusters
site on Reclaiming
Urban Space is total quality. It’s just one of their
many campaigns and well worth a visit.
The
Detroit Project is a grassroots campaign co-founded by columnist
Arianna Huffington. The site has great facts and statistics about
SUVs, and a lot of information about the SUV-terrorism connection.
You can also watch a couple of fantastic anti-SUV ads on the site
(which require RealPlayer).
The
next time you’re at the bookstore, check out these two great
books about car culture: Asphalt
Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America, and How We Can Take
It Back by Jane Holtz Kay, and High
& Mighty: SUVs – The World’s Dangerous Vehicles
and How They Got That Way by Keith Bradsher.
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