Urban design – Feb 8
How global forces are affecting cities
UK’s rules for front gardens to fight floods
In many communities, it’s not easy going green
Society
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 7
Transition, energy descent plans and relocalisation in Australia
Sermon for a carbon fast
Thou shalt not waste
Shopping for ethics
The near-ice biking experience
It took a near-ice experience and tomorrow’s potential challenge of an early, icy, 11-mile trip to get me to do a simple thing with immediate rewards like change out my bike tires. What, then, does it take to get people to make much bigger changes in their lives to prepare for a world with less abundant energy?
Transport – Feb 5
Next car debate: total miles driven
Ex-Shell chair: EU ‘should ban inefficient cars’
Danger in the bike lane
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 5
The slow life picks up speed
Recycling to a fashion
Green can be inexpensive, with a little work
Motivated by a tax, Irish spurn plastic bags
Transportation – Feb 2
What’s so funny about a hybrid howitzer?
Airbus A380 completes alternative fuel test flight
Housing & urban design – Feb 2
Dmitry Orlov on living aboard a boat
Porous streets work – even in rainy Oregon
12 things that shaped green building
Deep thought – Feb 1
Jamais Cascio: The big picture
Sharon Astyk on collapse: Let her go down
Carolyn Baker reviews William Kotke’s The Final Empire
Housing & urban design – Jan 30
Abu Dhabi’s zero-carbon ‘ecotopia’
Berkeley envisions ambitious energy plan
Address climate change through land use
Making the transition
Abortion and the Earth
If abortion were put into the context of the long history of human attempts to avoid starvation by regulating population growth, we might come to a different conclusion about what “pro-life” really means.
Population – Jan 30
Monbiot: Population growth pales against greed of the rich
The truth everyone knows, but no one says
Background on population and sustainability
Mind the ruins
Lists of things worth saving from collapse and destruction can be made arbitrarily long: the wetlands, the symphony orchestra, the public library, the public transportation system, the solar sewage treatment plant… But in the US there is one category that never makes the list, and it is the most important one: ruins. Without much help from anyone, ruins can tell us of our history as a species.
