Transportation & Mobility

Civic Meetings and Processes:

Affiliated Organizations

Other Local Organizations

  • BICAS
    Learn how to fix your bike, get a bike, make bike art--innovative programs far beyond your average bike shop.
  • Grecycle
    An organization providing a collection service for used cooking oil to produce biodiesel fuel.
  • UofA Sustainability Centers
    Various Centers for Sustainability in conjunction with the University of Arizona.

Local Businesses

Other Resources

Government Relations

Articles

  • Sustainability Actions Everyone Can Do
    Sustainability Actions Everyone Can Do We in Tucson face an unprecedented sustainability crisis including economic meltdown, climate change, resource depletion, and unraveling of the social fabric.------- Every level of our community is important in the effort to mitigate and adapt to these inter-related...
  • No, we can't?
    No, we can't? by Dave Cohen Published on Energy Bulletin (http://www.energybulletin.net) March 5, 2009 What is the biggest impediment in 2009 to mitigating the harmful effects of energy problems in the 21st century? The answer may surprise you-it is insolvent zombie banks and our entrenched FIRE economy...
  • Saving the Suburbs. Walkable Urbanism. Green Redevelopment.
    Tucson's problems are increasing. After two years, we continue to have a glut of approximately 8,000 to 10,000 empty, unsold houses. Home prices are plummeting. Families are abandoning their foreclosed houses, especially in the suburbs. Builders are going bankrupt. Skilled workers are losing their jobs...
  • PAG Sustainability and Energy Expo Speakers
  • ST Support Statement for Economic Stimulus, Redevelopment, and Green Jobs
    February 10, 2009 Honorable Tucson Mayor and Council Members, Sustainable Tucson acknowledges the dire economic conditions facing the City of Tucson as well as the people and organizations in our community. While we hope for the best, we also recognize that this emerging situation is unprecedented and...
  • Transportation
    January Meeting:  Organizing Questions: I would like to see a Rapid Transit Magnetic Train between Tucson and Phoenix How can we get a fast train between Tucson and Phoenix? How can we as the residents and citizens of Tucson shift to a predominately car-free culture? Car free city = Uban spce absent...
  • Avoid a Wrong Turn in Arizona…Oppose the proposed I-10 Bypass!
    Avoid a Wrong Turn in Arizona...Oppose the proposed I-10 Bypass! Meeting Time and Location: 9:45 a.m., Friday, December 19, 2008 City of Tucson Council Chambers 255 W. Alameda Dear Arizona Wildlife Supporter, The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) is proposing a new bypass around Tucson that...
  • What to do about Detroit: A sustainable transportation solution
    An important message by an average citizen from Michigan Friends, I drive an American car. It's a Chrysler. That's not an endorsement. It's more like a cry for pity. And now for a decades-old story, retold ad infinitum by tens of millions of Americans, a third of whom have had to desert their country...
  • Sustainability and environment leaders offer Obama their priorities
    The Peak Oil Crisis: Memorandum for the President-Elect by Tom Whipple, retired CIA analyst, columnist for the Falls Church (VA) News-Press, and editor of Peak Oil Review. Published November 6, 2008 The way things are shaping up, in less than three months you will be in charge of solving the direst...
  • A Desire Named Streetcars: Alan Drake Interview
    A Desire Named Streetcars: Alan Drake Interview Click here for interview. How should North Texas cities meet the public transportation needs of the near and distant future? This is an hour-long interview with engineer Alan Drake and Jay Kline, interim vice president of planning and development at Dallas...