Transport – Jan 15
Game changer
Ray LaHood and Changing our Thinking About Transportation
Shipping rates hit zero as trade sinks
Society
The future that wasn’t
A remarkable number of the attitudes and assumptions shaping the way today’s Western societies view the future have their roots in the science fiction of an earlier era. Do the first efforts at peak oil fiction offer a way to shape the collective imagination of the era taking shape around us today?
The peak oil crisis: renovating suburbia
Not everything about the suburbs will be a downside when the era of cheap fossil fuel comes to an end. Nearly all suburban dwellings have broad roofs and yards that are suitable for collecting some form of solar or in some places wind energy. In many cases, suburban yards are suitable for growing food or perhaps even raising poultry or other small livestock.
Housing & urban design – Jan 13
What will save the suburbs?
The ‘McMansion’ trend in housing is slowing
US Housing and the Passive Home Standard
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 12
Artists reimagine poster art of the Great Depression
Vermont group looks at life without oil
In New York, no crisis for niche manufacturers
Happiness grows out of tiny parks, not huge TVs
Review: Rhetoric for Radicals by Jason Del Gandio
Activist and professor Del Gandio entreats his fellow radicals to recognize the importance of effective communication, and then proceeds to outline the basics of writing, public speaking, body rhetoric and other rhetorical mainstays.
Consumerism and coping – Jan 11
Why you should never take me Christmas shopping
A generation adjusts as teens confront a harsh economy
The masters of the universe who cannot live with failure
Water – Jan 11
A sea of troubles (The Economist)
LA water cops hunt wasteful faucets, sprinklers
Flow: Who owns the world’s water?
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 9
Sustainable studying
Wondermentalist/Matt Harvey Telling Transition Tales
Introduction to EntropyPawsed – Adventures In Sustainable Living
The peak oil crisis: Cars – redux
I hate to keep coming back to cars, but in the last hundred years they have come to be one of the most significant facets of civilization – yet their future is in doubt.
The Age of Memory
Historians of an early generation liked to contrast the Age of Faith with the Age of Reason, and despite the many flaws in these categories they do have their point. Now the Enlightenment belief in the omnipotence of human reason is straining to the breaking point as three hundred years of industrial expansion begin to unravel in the wake of peak oil. Is the Age of Reason ending, and if so, what comes next?
Transportation – Jan 8
Five Months and Counting…. the realities of giving up driving
Australians buying more bikes than cars
50% hike in gas tax pushed
