NYC is looking to upgrade its taxi fleet with vehicles meeting the following requirements:

* Meets highest safety standards
* Superior passenger experience
* Superior driver comfort and amenities
* Appropriate purchase price and ongoing maintenance and repair costs
* Smaller environmental footprint (lower emissions and improved fuel economy)
* Smaller physical footprint (with more usable interior room)
* Compliance with appropriate Americans with Disabilities Act requirements
* Iconic design that will identify the new taxi with New York City

The UniCab design meets all these requirements in spades, and has received coverage in the following publications (a few amongst many!):

The Age
Daily Telegraph
Autoblog Green
The Huffington Post
Inhabitat Design

The main points of the manifesto:

• Industrial globalized agriculture contributes to and is vulnerable to climate change
• Ecological and organic farming contributes to mitigation and adaptation to climate change
• Transition to local, sustainable food systems benefits the environment and public health
• Biodiversity reduces vulnerability and increases resilience
• Genetically modified seeds and breeds: a false solution and dangerous diversion
• Industrial agrofuels: a false solution and new threat to food security
• Water conservation is central to sustainable agriculture
• Knowledge transition for climate adaptation
• Economic transition toward a sustainable and equitable food future

The article goes on to discuss much more regarding the sustainable food movement and its response to climate change.

Read the whole thing.