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)
Society
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.
Solutions & sustainability – Mar 8
Review: The Transition Handbook
Implementing rhizome at the personal level
Sustainable Settings in Colorado leaves for greener pastures
Interfaith forum on environment in N Carolina
Mining exec an activist himself
Transport & urban design – Mar 8
EcoDensity’s unofficial champion
UK cyclists face a rough ride
Relative comfort – living as an extended family
‘Big shift’ to rail urged for UK
Weird unofficial Toyota ads
Waste & dysfunction – Mar 8
Greed in the name of green- eco-consumerism
Cradle to cradle design
What if the MSM simply can’t cover humanity’s self-destruction?
Paper or plastic?
Geopolitics – Mar 8
The disintegration Of Iraq
Peace breaks out on Colombia’s borders
Ukraine to pay gas bill, end crisis
OPEC – not as powerful as you might think
Traffic congestion charge has modest impact on the life expectancy of Londoners
Scheme has led to 1,888 extra years of life for Londoners
Solutions & sustainability – Mar 2
Clothing (partially) made in Vermont
Megan Quinn Bachman interview
WorldChanging: How are you preparing to survive?
Beyond hope and doom: Time for a peak oil pep talk
A pep talk might take the tack of saying if only we pull together, our problems will vanish and the world will be a marvelous place in short order. But the people to whom I’m directing my remarks won’t buy that line of persuasion for a second.
Review: The Transition Handbook
The publication of the much anticipated Transition Handbook marks the latest landmark in what has become the fastest growing environmental movement since CND in the 1960s: the phenomenon that is sweeping the UK, the Transition Towns movement.
Deep thought – Mar 1
Bates and Orlov interview
Lovelock: ‘Enjoy life while you can’
An alternative to hierarchy: rhizome theory
Upsides of being down (depression)
Plastics & pollution – Feb 27
Chinese plastic bag maker closes
How different countries deal with the problem
Seas awash with plastic rubbish
Human shadows on the seas
