This post is by Andy Darrell, vice president for Living Cities at Environmental Defense Fund. The high cost of gas has pushed retail gas purchases down 2 to 3 percent. What are people doing instead? Taking public transportation! The first quarter report from the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) found that use of public transportation […]

This post is by Andy Darrell, vice president of the Living Cities Program at Environmental Defense Fund. Yesterday, the New York State Legislature failed to pass congestion pricing for New York City (see NY1 report), thus forgoing $354 million in federal funds. Today more than ever, New York and America’s other big cities need solutions […]

This post is by Andy Darrell, Regional Director for the Living Cities program at Environmental Defense. There are way too many cars in New York City – no question about that. Congestion pricing – charging a fee to cars entering the city – is a simple and effective solution. But some people weren’t so sure […]

The author of today’s post, Andy Darrell, is Regional Director for the Living Cities program at Environmental Defense. In 1800, 3 percent of the world’s people lived in urban areas. In the last year, that number is likely to have passed 50 percent [PDF]. The world is becoming urbanized at an extremely fast rate, and […]

Andy Darrell, today’s guest, is director of Environmental Defense’s Living Cities program, and a member of the advisory board that helped the mayor develop the plan. For the past eight months I’ve been honored to be a part of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s advisory council to develop a city plan for sustainability. The […]