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Summer 2008

The Transportation Issue
volume 23 no. 2

Journal

Breaking the Habit

Letters

Local News from All Over

Notes from a warming world

Globalization’s Carbon Bootprint

by Gar Smith

Earth Island Project Reports

Restoration Inititatives

Restoring Imaginations to Reclaim Land

by Ariana Katovich

Ethical Traveler

Where is Tourism Headed?

by Lili Debarbieri

BAWT

Carpooling to the Country

by Kyle MacDonald

Roadkill

How NYC's Congestion Pricing Plan Crashed

by Adam Federman

The Big Melt

Notes from the Front Lines of Climate Change

by Elizabeth Grossman

Cruise Control

How a Small Band of Activists Fought Alaska’s Tour Industry – and Won

by Daniel L. Henry

Flying Into Trouble

Where Are Carbon Offsets Taking Us?

by Jason Mark

Katie Alvord

The Call of the Kiwi

New Zealanders Are Working to Save Their National Symbol

by Eric Wagner

Fueling the Future?

The Hunt for a Sustainable Biofuel

by Robynne Boyd

Get on the Bus

Curitiba, Brazil Rolls Out a Transit Solution

by Michael Fox

Disappearing Destinations

by Kimberly Lisagor and Heather Hansen

by Lilias Pettit-Scott

The Travails of the Rails

by Brian Smith