About
I'm an American who has lived without a car for more than fifteen years. I'm an environmental studies major and I wanted to be an urban planner.
I've spent time in online forums for urban planners and what I learned is that the entire planet talks about things like Transit Oriented Design, but many actual professional planners -- probably most, in fact -- commute long distances to work by car, openly mock people who actually live without a car and have no firsthand experience with making life work without a car.
I sometimes feel like a pioneer, breaking new ground on things to which most people give lip service and relatively few act on. But I mostly feel like a social outcast, a reject to whom no one respects or will ever listen, a loser trying desperately to survive on the margins of society in a world very much not designed for someone like me.
I live in a world that is openly hostile to people actually doing the things the talking points agree need to be done by "everyone" if we want to stop the vicious cycle of human-caused climate change and have some hope of mitigating what is believed to be the current biggest problem we have, something so bad it threatens our very survival as a species.
I don't know where I am going with this website. Probably nowhere, as usual. At best, it's perhaps free therapy for the author.
Because most people don't appear to want solutions. Odds seem poor that trying to mitigate pain points of travel will move the needle to any meaningful degree on quietly birthing a new world order without bloody revolution.
Most likely, the future will remain bleak. The new world order that will emerge will come from disastrouly running out of resources we all knew were finite and continued using as if we imagined they weren't.
6 May 2026
I've spent time in online forums for urban planners and what I learned is that the entire planet talks about things like Transit Oriented Design, but many actual professional planners -- probably most, in fact -- commute long distances to work by car, openly mock people who actually live without a car and have no firsthand experience with making life work without a car.
I sometimes feel like a pioneer, breaking new ground on things to which most people give lip service and relatively few act on. But I mostly feel like a social outcast, a reject to whom no one respects or will ever listen, a loser trying desperately to survive on the margins of society in a world very much not designed for someone like me.
I live in a world that is openly hostile to people actually doing the things the talking points agree need to be done by "everyone" if we want to stop the vicious cycle of human-caused climate change and have some hope of mitigating what is believed to be the current biggest problem we have, something so bad it threatens our very survival as a species.
I don't know where I am going with this website. Probably nowhere, as usual. At best, it's perhaps free therapy for the author.
Because most people don't appear to want solutions. Odds seem poor that trying to mitigate pain points of travel will move the needle to any meaningful degree on quietly birthing a new world order without bloody revolution.
Most likely, the future will remain bleak. The new world order that will emerge will come from disastrouly running out of resources we all knew were finite and continued using as if we imagined they weren't.
6 May 2026