References and Resources - Website Links

Carbon Footprint Calculators

• Environmental Defense Fund
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• Resurgence

Financial Impacts of Driving

• AAA 2010 Your Driving Costs (PDF download)
• AAA Exchange

“What I Can Do” Lists

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• Portland Office of Sustainable Development
• Oregon Zoo
• Oregon Department of Energy
• Environmental Defense Fund
• Go Green Travel Green
• Canada Office of Energy Efficiency
• David Suzuki Foundation
• Energy Trust of Oregon (free energy audit)

Bicycle Trip Planning

• Metro Bike There! map
• ByCycle.org Bicycle Trip Planning
• Bikely.com Bike trails, paths & routes in over 40 countries
• Kidical Mass PDX

Science & News

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
• Climatehotmap.org
• Guardian Unlimited

Research & Reports

Economics & Transportation

• Driven to the brink: how the gas price spike popped the housing bubble & devalued the suburbs, Joe Cortright, CEOs for Cities
• Estimating the employment impacts of pedestrian, bicycle & road infrastructure- case study: Baltimore, Heidi Garrett-Peltier, Political Economy Research Institute
• The economic value of active transportation factsheet, Ryan Snyder Associates, LLC

Active Transportation 

• Transit & health: mode of transport, employer-sponsored public transit pass programs & physical activity, LaChapelle & Frank, Journal of Public Health Policy
• Public support for street-scale urban design practices & policies to increase physical activity, Carlson, et al., Journal of Physical Activity & Health
• Active transportation for America: a case for increased federal investment in bicycling & walking, Rails to Trails Conservancy

Climate Change

• Climate Change in Oregon
• Northwest Earth Institute
• Oregon Environmental Council
• Oregon Natural Step Network
• Natural Resources Defense Council
• The Climate Project (Al Gore volunteers)