Solar Action

Editorial 2
Solar Action Activities 3
Getting Around—A Community Based Project to Reduce Household Vehicle Kilometres Travelled 4
Transport NGOs in NZ 5
Towards a Sustainable Transport System for the Wakatipu Basin 6
Ride sharing 7
Demise of a passenger rail service: the Southerner 8
Biofuels in NZ 9
Transport News Snippets 10
Why your car will never sail on the Wind 10
International Bioethanol Markets – Successes and Challenges 11
Car collectives 12
Biofuels and species extinction 13
Incentives for hybrid cars in the USA 13
Integrated land and transport planning - Towards a more sustainable
transportation system in New Zealand 14/15
Transport commuting in selected cities 16
Solar Action Submission on the drafts Energy Strategies 17/19
NZ Government Budget 2007 20
We recommend 21
A sustainable transport paradigm for New Zealand 22-23
Climate Change and Wind Power 24