Deep thought – Apr 28
Can we give up cars, as the Japanese once gave up guns?
Daniel Quinn interview
Society
Urban design – Apr 27
Greening of America: ambitious tree-planting programs are sprouting up
Mass-produced sustainable living in China?
Kunstler:
Picturing suburbia
Book review – World Made by Hand
Kunstler’s novel brings to life a community and world that Kunstler himself has created – informed by his many years of study of our society, its built environment, and the Peak Oil threat. He has tempered his usual neo-Gonzo writing style and created interesting characters with depth and complexity.
Geopolitics – Apr 25
Fuel shortage forces UN to halt food handouts in Gaza
Interview with Bolivian President Evo Morales
Morales’ 10 commandments to save the planet, life and humanity
Transport – Apr 25
Is humanity’s restlessness a threat to the planet?
With first car, a new life in China
Deep thought – Apr 25
Sharon Astyk: Ok, breathe
The politics of food is politics
Peak civilization and the winter of our disconnect
Everything you think you know about modern society is wrong (and why it matters for PO)
Transport – Apr 24
Group touts telecommuting’s green benefits
Not guzzling quite so much gas
After the Peak – movie review
After the Peak is a mock-TV news program, presented as if live from a local television station in North Carolina. The time is “one year from today”. Worldwide oil production has peaked and is declining.
Housing – Apr 22
Home prices drop most in areas with long commute
Kunstler on urban planning
Children of the ‘burbs
Review: Reinventing Collapse by Dmitry Orlov
In comparing the responses of the US and the Soviet Union to collapse, Orlov takes on the task of breaking it to American readers that the very successes that made them so rich (a few anyway) and so great, will help not at all.
Deep thought – Apr 16
Wendell Berry on peak oil: Faustian economics
Economist Sachs believes we can save world
Callenbach’s Ecotopia and Kunstler’s World Made by Hand
Housing & urban design – Apr 15
An Atlas of Radical Cartography
The incredible shrinking city: Youngstown, Ohio
Creating sustainable cities
