Americans discover charms of living near mass transit

Since the 1980s, Los Angeles has quietly built a mass-transit network — subway, commuter rail, light rail, rapid bus — that’s slowly taking strain off roads. Development around that network is taking off. New housing near transit hubs is in sharp demand by commuters like Thacher.

The biomass energy debate

You might think that renewable energy proponents could count on the backing of environmentalists, and in most cases they can. But not when it comes to biomass energy, or energy derived from organic matter, including landfill and forestry wood waste.

The United States of America is in freefall.

The $7 trillion national debt, unparalleled domestic consumer debt, the fall of the dollar and rise of the Euro, peak oil, the rise of the biggest markets by far in Europe and China – all adumbrations of a collapsing U.S. economy. [Warning: political rant]