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The Commons, Paris. 25 May 2001.

In the interest of balanced and informed discourse on the cars/cites/people dilemma, we are under the obligation to open up this journal to a wide range of groups and opinions. Today you are cordially invited to visit Hideous White Noise who have some interesting points they want to bring to our attention. (Requires Flash. Benefits greatly from a sound card. And bear in mind as you view this presentation, they are Canadian. Eh?)

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  • 25-05. Hideous White Noise
  • 23-05. An uphill CFD project in a US univeristy
  • 21-05. "Nuclear Power Renaissance? " From The Economist
  • 19-05. What's Wrong with "Car Free Day"? An agonized reflection on a problem name
  • 17-05. I Quit: Open letter by a British sustainable transport campaigner
  • 16/05. More World Traffic to view & ponder
  • 14-05. Wheels: Once you can't drive, transportation's a real problem (USA)
  • 10-05. Street Reclaiming, J. Crawford on D. Engwicht's new book (Australia)
  • 8-05. Latest World Transport Journal, J. Whitelegg editorial on sustainability, reality and rhetoric (UK)
  • 7-05. CarFree Times, May 2001 Edition (international)
  • 4-05. Winners and losers: Richard Wade on world trends in income distribution (international)
  • 3-05. The nose of the camel is under the tent: ECFD 2001 (global)
  • 2-05. Sustainable Transport? A cautionary tale from India
  • 1-05. Melbourne's first Car Free Day (Australia)
  • 30-04. Car-Free Living in Europe (mainly)
  • 29-04. All Aboard report, UK Audit Commission
  • 28-04. Tell the Bush Administration to Stop Global Warming Now!
  • 27-04. Two-Stroke Engine Ban Campaign in Dhaka (Bangladesh, ECFD Profile)
  • 26/04. Visit Go for Green (Health & environment, Canada)
  • 22-04. ICTA Campaign on Auto Pollution (ECFD Profile)
  • 22-04. View latest edition of CarFree Times
  • 20-04.Roadkill Bill in Illichville (USA)
  • 19-04. The First-Ever Earth Car Free Day
  • 18-04. Message from Perth: Adaptive behavior under duress as a clue (Australia, ECFD Profile)
  • 17-04. Be proud, say it loud with the All-New Godzilla SUV (USA, Be proud!)
  • 16/04. ECFD's Do-it-Yourself Virtual Petition Machine (Global)
  • 15/04. Get ready to pay full price for that nice car of yours!
  • 13-14/04. World Traffic in 24 Virtual Variations
  • 11-12/04. I think ECFD is a poor idea because. . .
  • 10/04. Car Free in Portugal (requires Shockwave)
  • 9/04. "No-Car Day" Greeting from Malaysia (requires Shockwave)
  • 8/04. Dawn of a New Species? (important scientific discovery)
  • 7/04. City Lights (global urban sprawl impacts illustrate the problem)
  • 6/04. The Disposable Car (USA, Relayed direct from MIT)
  • 4/04. The New Colonist: Special Issue on CarFree Cities
  • 3/04. Adolf Hitler did not carshare (large pdf file)
  • 2/04. The New Colonist: Special Issue on CarFree Cities
  • 1/04. Nashville Native proposes Car-Full Day Challenge
  • 31/03. Angerman on Kyoto and the American Way of Life
  • 30/03. A World without cars, ENN article on ECFD 2001
  • 29/03. "Auto Logic", a poem
  • 28/03. One Giant Step Backward
  • 25/03. When the sun goes down on Tonga
  • 24/03. Message from Fremantle
  • 23/03. "Don Corleone of Carsharing"
  • 22/03. "What you always wanted to know about Bogota but..." (Colombia)
  • 21/03. "The Daughters of Jane"
  • 20/03. "The Long Winding Road to ECFD"
  • 19 March, "Someone say Global Warming?"




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