Solutions & sustainability – Aug 29
Jumbo jar is ready for rain (Thai water saving)
Radical Simplicity and the Fourth Step (online book)
What must we do?
Act: Inspiration
Peak oil – Aug 29
Peak oil theater: Flamingo/Winnebago
News from TOD Canada
ODAC News
Food & agriculture – Aug 28
The power of produce (health claims)
Farming the concrete jungle
Study links CO2 to demise of grazing lands
Zimbabwe: Give fertilizer sector priority on power
Useful mutants, bred with radiation
Economics – Aug 27
Daddy, where does money come from?
Sharon Astyk: My one and only stock market advice post
No reason to assume she’ll be right, mate
Transport – Aug 27
In India, one cheap car could go a long way
Sharon Astyk: Get on a bike
How walkable is your neighborhood?
Virgin Blue finds fuel costs add drag
Solutions & sustainability – Aug 27
The kibbutz sheds socialism and gains popularity
Know your carbon impact
100-square-foot house fits him
MIT pushes the revolving door to save energy
Efficiency measures could cut data center, server energy use by half
Solutions & sustainability – Aug 25
Altar call for true believers
‘Right to Dry’ movement: the clothesline makes a comeback
Sharon Astyk on cutting your laundry energy
Deeper than a mud puddle
Story from the point of view of a farmer in an intentional community in a post-Peak Oil world several years from now.
Solutions & sustainability – Aug 23
When the sun is shining, break out the solar oven
Slow is beautiful
Building the climate camp (video)
Housing & urban design – Aug 21
New guidebook: Post Carbon Cities: Planning for Energy and Climate Uncertainty
Astyk: The brother-in-law on your couch vision of the apocalypse
Mud: building block of the future
Solutions & sustainability – Aug 21
Better living through green chemistry
Leonardo DiCaprio’s 11th Hour (interview about new movie)
Simple and cheap: Nepal’s application of science
Astyk: Cut your laundry energy
$100 laptop, meet the $100 desktop
Young people say family, friends make them most happy
Bikes – Aug 20
Kenya: Levies threaten to push boda bodas off the roads
State of cycling (in NYC)
Beijing to rent out 50,000 bicycles ahead of Olympics
The one-of-a-kind wooden bicycle
Paris goes cycling mad, declares vélorution
