Celebrating the cargo bike revolution: A review of Motherload
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
The film closes with an image that will tug at the heart-strings of all parents, but particularly those in bicycling families: her twins, who first explored their world from the open-air box of a cargo bike, now pedal away on their own bikes, under their own power, down their own road.
How we went from “makers” to “trash-makers” – and how to get back
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
Why do we have so much stuff? Why is it so hard to find good stuff? And when our cheap stuff breaks, why is it so hard to fix it?
The Hundred Years’ War for Safe Streets
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
A transportation revolution must clearly be a big component of a Green New Deal. For anyone interested in exploring the many aspects of mobility justice, Right of Way is a must-read.
Climate Change, Citizenship, and the Global Caste System
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
Our descendants may shudder to realize their own grandparents blithely accepted, perhaps even praised, a rigid caste system that offered rich opportunities to a minority while consigning the vast majority to a brutal struggle for mere existence.
Energy Storage and our Unpredictable Future
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
Their new book Energy Storage and Civilization: A Systems Approach (Springer, February 2020) is an important contribution to biophysical economics – marvelously clear, deep and detailed where necessary, and remarkably thorough for a work of just over 150 pages.
Platforms for a Green New Deal
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
The Case for the Green New Deal (by Ann Pettifor), and A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal (by Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni, Daniel Aldana Cohen and Thea Riofrancos) each clock in at a little under 200 pages, and both books are written in accessible prose for a general audience. Surprisingly, there is remarkably little overlap in coverage and it’s well worth reading both volumes.
Make Room for the Bus: Review
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
While new light-rail systems, subways, inter-urban commuter trains all have their place, simply giving buses preference on existing roads could improve urban quality of life while bringing carbon emissions down – long before the planning and approval process for new train lines is complete.
Questions as Big as the Atmosphere
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
What is the best-case scenario for solar geoengineering? For author Holly Jean Buck and the scientists she interviews, the best-case scenario is that we manage to keep global warming below catastrophic levels, and the idea of geoengineering quietly fades away.