Posts Tagged ‘culture’
Changing Behavior through Fun
Sometimes humor is the best way to change behavior. At a particular subway station in Sweden everyone rode the escalator up, virtually no one chose the stairs. Well, stairs are clearly a little healthier since they require more effort to walk up… so is there something that we can do to encourage people to make the healthy choice? See for yourself:
Like I said…
I thought this post on the Chron blogs was interesting, especially in light of my earlier post this week about cultural traffic calming. When talking about the experience of walking a few blocks from her parking area to City Hall, Tara had this to say: …I realized it is not the walk that bothers me, [...]
Cultural Traffic Calming
One of the recent discussions on the Streetsblog network was related to an interesting traffic calming measure taken in Germany. In places where speeding near school zones was a problem, the Police have been taking a new approach. Instead of just giving motorists a ticket, they’ve been making the motorists stop and explain to a [...]
Walkable Weather
Kuffner wrote a great little ditty today about how the weather affects Houston. Here’s what he had to say: Tory Gattis: “Houston has a pedestrian-hostile tropical climate five months of the year. While northern transit-based cities benefit from a personal warming technology – the coat – the only personal cooling technology that exists for southern [...]
Russian predicts imminent collapse of US
This is pretty amusing, but also pretty sad: There have been a series of news articles over the last few months highlighting the predictions of Igor Panarin. He came up with a theory about 10 years ago that sometime between 2010 and 2011 the US would collapse into four nations, that Alaska would be reclaimed [...]
Markets rally, people wait in line
Yesterday was a good day for the markets, according to the New York Times. Oil dipped below $120 a barrel, which is starting to seem like the ‘panic price’. The Dow was up 331 points at the end of the day. This wavering roller coaster of oil and economy makes me even more interested in [...]