How students get around
My friends and I see this shift as a good thing – youth leading the way toward decisions that could result in more livable communities, better health, lower emissions and less fossil fuel dependency.
Act: Inspiration
Housing & urban design – August 13
Australia: Rising costs fuel economic stress
What our cities could be
Smart Growth: The good news about high gas prices
They took away all the cars in NYC – Summer Streets 2008
Atrios: Rules for urban design
Trash – August 12
The waste-pickers of Delhi
Junk raft raises awareness of plastics despite adversity, challenges
Recyclers are cashing in on the fortune in your bin
Largest water solar heater with PET bottles installed in Parana, Brazil
A tall, cool drink of … sewage?
Solutions & sustainability – August 12
Living simply by sharing space
Going vintage is going green
Bikes, Copenhagen and Disneyland: what we have in common
Go-getter gets governments going on sustainability
Cycling with the wind behind you (electric bikes in NL)
Deep thought – August 12
Ehrlichs: Too many people, too much consumption
We must green the market
No longer a lunatic
The perpetual assault on ecological and economic reason.
Suburbia – Aug 11
The decline Of suburbia?
Gas prices apply brakes To suburban migration
The future of shopping malls
Book Review: Climate Code Red- the Case for Emergency Action
Book review Climate Code Red – Climate Code Red, by David Spratt and Philip Sutton, Scribe Publications 2008
Climate & environment – August 8
Local gardeners do their part to record possible ‘global weirding’
Climate-change program to aid poor nations is shut
Environment: Intense rainfall due to global warming could raise flood risk
Reviving the Household Economy, Part Two: The Decline and Fall of Home Economics
Behind the collapse of the household economy in modern American society lie sweeping changes in social roles and the collective imagination. Can those forces be harnessed to deal with the challenges of a world in the wake of peak oil?
Coal – August 6
Dirty tactics to defend a dirty industry
The stakes could not be higher. Everything hinges on stopping coal
Coal’s future is safe – but what about the climate?
Green groups drop opposition to Texas coal plant
Good news, bad news
I starting reading the news, and following links, and reading a backlog of articles I’ve been meaning to read, and lo and behold, I noticed a pattern. Our society is changing. We rely so much on oil, that as the price skyrockets, we have no choice but to change. Are you noticing a shift?
Redefining Normal
The last couple of days I’ve been struggling with how to begin the Green Your Insides Challenge. And then it hit me that I needed to address this: the reason it is so difficult for anyone to green themselves, inside or out, is that society is constantly pushing us in the other direction. We have learned since we were wee tots that we are supposed to want more, want better, want now now now. And usually, we can have what we want… so we do.
