Charles Komanoff: Getting the Price Right: The Case for Carbon Taxation
Charging American businesses and individuals a price to emit carbon dioxide (CO2) is essential to reduce U.S. emissions quickly enough to prevent atmospheric concentrations of CO2 from reaching an irreversible tipping point. It’s a bedrock economic principle that prices of goods and services should reflect ("internalize" as the economists say) all of the societal costs (such as pollution) that production of the goods or services imposes on society. Yet the prices of gasoline, electricity and fuels in general don’t include many of these societal costs, particularly their impact on global warming.
March 14, 2007
Majora Carter: Communities as Assets, Not Omelets
Robert Moses said, "You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs." So, who ordered the omelet? Big projects promise big returns, but may disproportionately benefit the well-connected. Are the economic fibers that connect communities undermined as a result? In a provocative lecture, Majora Carter, Executive Director of Sustainable South Bronx, will discuss the implications of the "top-down" paradigm that she argues characterizes development today. Presented in conjunction with Robert Moses and the Modern City: Remaking the Metropolis.
March 14, 2007
City Council Hearing on Bike Safety Legislation
The City Council Transportation Committee will hold a hearing on:
March 12, 2007
Regional Plan Association Regional Assembly: A Bright, Green Future: Climate Change, Energy and Growth in the Tri-State Metropolitan Region
Speakers and panelists include:
March 11, 2007
Transit Movies Presentation – New York Subway, Queens Route
A movie screening for a film about the New York subway, Queens route, sponsored by the Electric Railroaders Association, New York Division.
March 11, 2007
Safe Walks Info Session
Safe Walk, a program of RightRides for Women's Safety, offers anyone who calls the Safe Walk dispatch number a free walking escort to their destination during the months of April-October. Bike Patrols are volunteers of 2+ people, who patrol a 10-15 block area.
March 11, 2007
Manhattan Community Board 2 Committee Meeting on SoHo Bike Lanes
Remember the push for a bike lane on Houston Street? On Tuesday, March 13, the NYC Department of Transportation will present and seek community feedback on:
March 11, 2007
Panel: ‘Meeting the Challenges of Growth’
As part of its annual meeting, the New York Metropolitan Transportaiton Council will be holding a panel discussion entitled "Meeting the Challenges of Growth." The panel will include:
March 11, 2007