If you would like a really thoughtful and interesting account by someone who has lived all his life without a car – bringing up his family and now living in a Lincolnshire town - read this article by David Hurdle http://www.thefourwheeldetox.com/page16.htm/ And then you might like to read some of the other personal stories in Stephen Young's e-book http://www.thefourwheeldetox.com/.

A recent book outlines how a society can become ‘prosperous’ in a meaningful way without economic growth (which is inherently unsustainable). This article suggests that this book – acclaimed by people as different as Mary Robinson, the former chief scientist of BP and the Financial Times reviewer – has great relevance to us in the carfree movement.