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
Society
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.
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
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
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.
