Stories tagged with "college"

Peak Oil 101: Why Isn't This Class Available Yet in My College?

Posted by Glenn on June 7, 2008 - 9:00am in The Oil Drum: Local
Topic: Sociology/Psychology
Tags: college, education, peak oil, university [list all tags]

This is a guest post from Max Arturo Alcala Sainz.

Currently, the list of academic institutions offering relevant and up-to-date information and courses geared to confront the imminent energy slope is awfully short. If you have ever tried to enroll in your local university for some hands-on Peak Oil learning experience, you may have found yourself disappointed in knowing that no such course is offered.  Even in certain high-level economics courses that scrape at energy depletion and natural resources, you will probably be able to teach your professor a thing or two (if you are a keen reader of TOD). :)

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Walking Towns: Universities, Military Bases & Pre-Auto Urban Areas

Posted by Glenn on November 18, 2007 - 10:30am in The Oil Drum: Local
Topic: Environment/Sustainability
Tags: college, military, transportation, walking [list all tags]

In one of the recent threads, I asked for good local statistical sources and got a few gems, including the Bikes at Work census data commute-to-work mash-up by zipcode. So I ran a quick search on the highest walk to work locations in the US for towns over 1000 population. The results were surprising to me in the lack of diversity:













Location POP % Walk to work
Naval Academy, Maryland 4264 82.99%
Houghton, New York 1730 67.84%
Alfred village, New York 3926 60.98%
West Point, New York 7138 60.25%
Air Force Academy, Colorado 7536 59.63%
Parris Island, South Carolina 4841 58.45%
Lackland AFB CDP, Texas 7132 58.09%
New Square village, New York 4707 57.28%
Hamilton village, New York 3510 55.56%
Avalon city, California 3181 52.79%

They are almost all locations that are centered around an institution, like a university or military academy where many people are housed very close to their classes or jobs and the concentration of people and buildings conspires to reduce the amount of spaces that could be used for roads and parking of automobiles.

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