Transport – Apr 24
Group touts telecommuting’s green benefits
Not guzzling quite so much gas
Society
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
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
