Green notes from Seattle

Sustainable Transit

Personal Rapid Transit ("Podcars") | Conventional transit | Marine conservation | Seattle and Bikes

Skycab video (World Wildlife Fund Climate Solver):

Masdar and Personal Rapid Transit on NPR's Climate Connections --

Masdar on CNN's "Going Green"

Masdar and PRT on Living On Earth

Podcast interview with Martin Lowson of the ULTra PRT program (the Heathrow project)

What the European Commission says about PRT.

Masdar - First carbon-free community:

ULTra under construction at Heathrow:

BAA's Heathrow ULTra video now online:

ATS Ltd's ULTra video (from its USA site):

PRT vision that includes Dual Mode (pods that can also drive on streets), by Swedish Institute for Transport and Communications Analysis (SIKA):

Vectus, Korean PRT testing in Sweden:

Vectus marketing video (fall 2008):

PRT concept for Microsoft campus (showing Taxi 2000):

West Virginia University 8-20 passenger peoplemover, aka "The PRT"; product of federal interest in PRT in the early 1970s:

Cabintaxi demonstration, German PRT from late 1970s:

Conventional Transit | Podcars | Marine conservation | Seattle and Bikes

2009: Seattle bus tunnel now a subway!

Curitiba omnibus (Video)

Eurostar:

BARTtv at Bay Area Rapid Transit

Portland aerial tram (Video)

Marine Conservation | Podcars | Conventional transit | Seattle and Bikes

Failing Our Sound May 2008 Seattle Times series

Sound of Broken Promises. Ongoing Seattle P-I coverage of issues affecting Puget Sound and marine life.

Starfish (Presidents of the United States of America)

More shorts

The low dissolved-oxygen problem in Hood Canal, Washington state:

Water quality issues in Hood Canal (three parts)

Zodiac by Neal Stephenson

Fred Felleman's blog

As The Sea Churns (humorous vignettes addressing water quality issues of Puget Sound, Washington state): 1, 2, 3

Seattle and Bikes | Podcars | Conventional transit | Marine conservation

"Century 21 Calling" (Video, Seattle world fair 1962) MST3K version

Seattle Bikestation for commuters (Quicktime)

An electronic road flare I bike with in atrocious weather (Video)

Gmap Pedometer. Map your bike route with Google Maps -- get mileage and elevation data!

BIKEWISE.

Veloway self-serve bike rental concept

"Seattle" (P.I.L.)