Paris, France. 19 Mar 2001 8:00 AM
Spring came fast that year at the New Mobility shop in Paris; we were working under pressure to muster world-wide support for the first-ever "Earth Car Free Day" due for 19 April, which we were organizing with a team from

the
Earth Day Network. As part of this effort, we wrote a series of articles that appeared in the lively Grist e-mag exploring some less known new mobility concepts and strategies , which you can see
here. And of these the most widely read had to do with carsharing and a gentleman from the Mafia. [Please be sure you read Paul Minett's
take-no-prisoners comment at the end of this piece.]
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