April 27th, 2020 | by World Resources Institute
The COVID-19 crisis has shown that effective public transport is vital to keeping cities running. By serving essential workers in health care, emergency services, food services, and other sectors, public transport has become a service not just for some people but for all urban residents
April 19th, 2020 | by Johnna Crider
Cities all over the U.S. are closing down streets to traffic during the coronavirus pandemic in order to encourage people to stay home
April 18th, 2020 | by World Resources Institute
As the world works to stop the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 3.9 billion people are under full or partial lockdown orders, as of mid-April. Cities have curtailed many public transit operations because of declining ridership and health concerns
April 16th, 2020 | by Rocky Mountain Institute
The coronavirus has exposed the ills of continued automobile-centric urban planning practices that adversely impact equity, health, and the climate. Those of us who are working from home, own an automobile, and can conveniently make grocery runs may overlook the fact that many in this country are not so lucky
September 28th, 2018 | by Carolyn Fortuna
Local leadership is having a global impact on the fight to stop climate change and transition to 100 percent clean and renewable energy
February 2nd, 2018 | by Guest Contributor
The U.S. Bank Stadium, which replaced the old Metrodome in 2014, is built to endure the fiercest storms. And, because bitter cold outside makes it costly to keep the stadium warm inside, the venue also deploys an array of energy-saving features
April 6th, 2017 | by John Farrell
The first-in-the-nation Clean Energy Partnership has reached the end of its first two-year work plan and has gathered a lot of baseline data. But is it successful?
November 29th, 2016 | by Cynthia Shahan
Riding public transportation is a vital means of saving money, money that can much more happily be spent on other things than on owning, driving, and maintaining a car. Transit riders can forget about auto insurance, car payments, fuel costs, tuneups at the mechanic, expensive broken car parts, etc
September 26th, 2016 | by John Farrell
Originally published on ilsr.org. When people pay their electric bill to an investor-owned utility such as Minnesota’s Xcel Energy, they [&hellip
April 28th, 2016 | by Joshua S Hill
A law professor from the University of Kansas has explored innovative approaches for cities to switch to a low-carbon energy [&hellip
January 11th, 2016 | by John Farrell
How much solar is installed on municipal buildings? How much could be installed? As we discovered in writing ILSR’s Public Rooftop [&hellip
June 2nd, 2015 | by John Farrell
Originally posted at ilsr.org On Friday, the nation’s first clean energy partnership between a city and its utilities released its [&hellip
April 14th, 2015 | by Zachary Shahan
Some top clean transport reading for your Tuesday (& more?) pleasure: Tesla I Spent a Night in the Tesla Airbnb, [&hellip
December 11th, 2014 | by John Farrell
Originally published on ilsr.org. In August 2013, Minneapolis (MN) was in the news for considering a take-over of its energy [&hellip
November 29th, 2014 | by Cynthia Shahan
Saving money on transportation is always helpful, especially if we blunt air pollution at the same time. Any time of [&hellip
October 24th, 2014 | by Cynthia Shahan
US public transportation ridership increased yet again in the second quarter of 2014. A press release report released by the American Public [&hellip
October 14th, 2014 | by John Farrell
Ever wonder what happened to the notion last August that the city of Minneapolis (MN) would take over its energy [&hellip
September 10th, 2014 | by Zachary Shahan
EV news buffet below. Eat it up. Lumilor is showing off a luminescent Tesla Model S in order to advertise [&hellip
September 2nd, 2014 | by John Farrell
Many cities served by private utilities think they have little capacity to encourage local renewable energy development. But a largely [&hellip
August 18th, 2014 | by Cynthia Shahan
Many Americans think that bicycling is pure recreational fun. Fresh air, exercise, and adventure being the reason that people bicycle these days. But [&hellip
