Deep thought – Mar 25
Wall Street Journal: New limits to growth revive Malthusian fears
Passover as if Earth really matters
Society
Dysfunction – Mar 25
Excessive emails and text are a mental illness
Deaths and disruption as price rise sees copper thefts soar
Spreading the word – Mar 25
“To Be of Use” – serving the community
Rev. Billy at the auto show
Kunstler’s novel: ‘a horse and some pepper would be nice’
Relocalize newsletter
Housing & urban design – Mar 23
Freiburg – greenest city in the world?
Radiohead’s
Thom Yorke questions Mayor of London about his radical eco vision
Kunstler on parking garages
Solutions & sustainability – Mar 21
Shut that door! (UK shops waste energy)
Community Solution’s Agraria
New green website in UK
Urban design – Mar 20
Green? Dense? Walkable?
Respect for the human scale (Polycarpou interviews Kunstler and Salingaros)
Suburban sprawl pollutes Hungary
US & state oil companies – Mar 17
State Inc.
Energy Diplomat: most oil in state-run hands
Schlesinger: Geopolitics of US energy future
Housing & urban design – Mar 13
The next slum and the new green city
California needs more urban density
Cities on the edge of chaos
SUVs without wheels
China population – Mar 12
One-child policy ‘pays off’ for GHG emissions
China mulls change to one-child policy
Review: Kunstler’s World Made by Hand
James Kunstler’s vision of life post-peak gives even the most thoughtful doomers new things to think about and new ways to think about them.
Transport – Mar 11
Working on the railroad – personnel shortage
No brakes, no gears: the latest bike craze
Mass transit use hits 50-year high
It’s not just fossil fuels (auto addiction)
A work of imagination
Our futures, personal and collective, depend as much on our imagination as the brute facts. If there is one thing that imagination makes possible, it is to believe that we are not necessarily limited by our past.
