Saving the world starts at home
New York Times on eco-moms
Sharon Astyk on ‘Pleasures’
Generation Green taking on parents
Going green for 80 cents a day
Society
Geopolitics – Feb 15
OPEC finance chiefs to discuss $ oil pricing
The door to Iraq’s oil opens
Iranians scheme to elude sanctions
Energy policy is foreign policy
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 13
Does peak oil “make ordinary politics irrelevant”?
Monastery throws switch on green initiatives
Generation Green taking on parents to help them save the planet
How former miners transformed a pit into an energy village
Eco-villages prove to be sustainable
Dave Cohen’s suburban savanna
There may be an instinctual basis for our love of suburbia, one that may be hard to break through even as the cheap oil which has made suburbia possible disappears.
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
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
