Green Transportation

Social distance over greater distances.

Ditch your car, delete your Uber app, skip the subway — now is the time to get an electric bike

Returning to a car-dominated city after the pandemic lockdown is ‘out of the question’

Cars are a way of life in the US (and around the world). While most of us enjoy the freedom they offer, their costs can be a burden on the budget.

Here are some of my insights from living car-free, and my experiences with getting around in alternative ways.

If you’ve ever been stuck in a traffic jam, sitting motionless behind a diesel-belching truck as cyclists glide past happily in the bike lane, it may have crossed your mind that you’d be happier living without a car.

As big global carmakers electrify their models, we ask experts about how things could shape up.

Sales doubled in 2019, but the industry’s tipping point — severing ties to the gas pump — still lies ahead. These cars will help make that happen.

What you need to know to decide if going electric is right for you

For those of us that take regular holidays abroad and travel on business, flying makes up a considerable chunk of our carbon footprint, but are there ways of reducing those emissions?

Take one round-trip flight between New York and California, and you’ve generated about 20 percent of the greenhouse gases that your car emits over an entire year.

Our climate just can’t tolerate widespread frequent flying. At some level we need to figure out, collectively, which flights are necessary, and which are luxuries.