Housing & urban design – Apr 15
An Atlas of Radical Cartography
The incredible shrinking city: Youngstown, Ohio
Creating sustainable cities
Society
ODAC Newsletter – Apr 11
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
Don’t like the news? Make your own – Apr 11
Bill Moyers: journalists as truth-tellers
Student sees problems with high school text
In Web world of 24/7 stress, writers blog till they drop
Housing & urban design – Apr 9
Ecocity World Summit: April 22-26 in San Francisco
Dubai’s Masdar City – preparing for PO?
Kunstler: The glossary of nowhere
Foreclosures come to McMansion country
Master Conservers
For those who lived during the last round of energy crises, grain shortages and the surging price of crude oil bring back memories of the Seventies. Some of the responses to that earlier time of troubles may offer useful tools for the round now looming over the industrial world.
Housing & urban design – Apr 4
UK’s Ecotowns – why the protests?
Energy and climate initiatives in Santa Barbara
Green architecture and urbanism – new report
Video nation – Apr 4
Ad nauseam: State Farm on the humiliation of biking to work
Van Jones on Colbert Report (green collar jobs)
Colbert special on water: Dean Kamen interview
The Unicyclist – adrenaline, no oil needed
Housing & urban design – Apr 3
NYC approves fees on city drivers
Life in the ‘burbs: heavy costs for families, climate
Eco-towns? Britons say no thanks
Walkable towns curb obesity, pollution
Spring break
Taking a few days off to work on software issues. Posting will be sporadic.
Heinberg on ‘resilient communities: paths for powering down’
The first public airing by Richard Heinberg of a new concept he has been developing: a Resilient Communities Action Plan.
Solutions & sustainability – Mar 31
DIY sustainability from ex-race engineer, now minister
Saving the planet the Swiss way – via a self-propelled world odyssey
Green progamming on Sundance Channel
Take your Uncle Scam advance and buy tangible investments
Why I localize
I have been working on localization for the past four years. Sometimes it has felt like I am swimming upstream. Actually it still feels like that – the difference is that now the current is not quite as strong.
