[sustran] World Streets: Weekly digest for 16 August 2010

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The <http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/2010/08/14/the-first-world-sharetransport-forum-meets-in-kaohsiung-from-16-19-september/>  first World Share/Transport Forum meets in Kaohsiung from 16-19 September 


E. Britton, <http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/author/worldstreets/>  editor | 14 August 2010 at 19:50 | Categories: BRT <http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/category/brt/> , Global South <http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/category/global-south/> , bikeshare <http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/category/bikeshare/> , carshare <http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/category/carshare/> , event <http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/category/event/> , psychology <http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/category/psychology/> , public <http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/category/public-space/>  space, rideshare <http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/category/rideshare/> , shared <http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/category/shared-space/>  space, sharing <http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/category/sharing/> , taxi <http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/category/taxi/>  | URL: http://wp.me/psKUY-RS 

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 <http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/time-to-count-the-spoons-alan-atkinson-on-sustainabilty-back-peddling/> "Time to count the spoons". Alan Atkinson on sustainability back-peddling 


E. Britton, <http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/author/worldstreets/>  editor | 11 August 2010 at 16:34 | Categories: activism <http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/category/activism/> , back-peddling <http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/category/back-peddling/> , climate <http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/category/climate/> , op-ed <http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/category/op-ed/> , sustainability <http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/category/sustainability/>  | URL: http://wp.me/psKUY-Rv 

Dr. Samuel Johnson reminded us some time back that "When a man proclaims his honor loudly at the table, it's time to count the spoons". Which is what Alan AtKisson has to offer on the submet of back-peddling as he comments on loudly proclaimed sustainability initiatives from Europe and America.

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1-minute <http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/2010/08/10/1-minute-movies/>  movies 


E. Britton, <http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/author/worldstreets/>  editor | 10 August 2010 at 13:24 | Categories: bikeshare <http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/category/bikeshare/> , carshare <http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/category/carshare/> , infrastructure <http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/category/infrastructure/> , media <http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/category/media/> , shared space <http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/category/shared-space/> , sharing <http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/category/sharing/>  | URL: http://wp.me/psKUY-R2 

If you click today to the home page of the 2010 Kaohsiung Conference of the World Share/Transport Forum at www.kaohsiung.sharetransport.org, you will see that the organizers have just this morning added the first of an intended new cycle of "1-minute movies" by way of livening up the conference preparations and as a quick introduction to [...]

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 <http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/2010/08/09/promises-promises-via-india-lives-in-her-cities-too/> "They will solve Delhi’s problem of congestion for good." 


E. Britton, <http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/author/worldstreets/>  editor | 9 August 2010 at 13:27 | Categories: Global South <http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/category/global-south/> , New <http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/category/new-mobility/>  Mobility, bad <http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/category/bad-ideas/>  ideas, infrastructure <http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/category/infrastructure/> , madness <http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/category/madness/> , old mobility <http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/category/old-mobility/>  | URL: http://wp.me/psKUY-QF 

Bravo!  Bravissimo!!! I love this sentence (says he gritting his teeth). Solutions, solutions. It's a wonderful world. If you recall you heard from us last week concerning the wondrous “Straddling bus" project that so surprisingly popped in from an ambitious (?!?) entrepreneur in China -- but not about to be undone by the competition to [...]

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