Transport – Aug 25
Netherlands: Car sharing gaining popularity
Bikes in Portland: We like fun, but we really like functional
Society
Emerald cities – Aug 25
Environmental history of Seattle
China eco-cities update
Solutions & sustainability – Aug 25
Altar call for true believers
‘Right to Dry’ movement: the clothesline makes a comeback
Sharon Astyk on cutting your laundry energy
What’s off the record at N.H.T.S.A.? Almost everything
The newly appointed head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has put the big hush on one of the government’s most important safety agencies. The agency’s new policy effectively means that some of the world’s top safety researchers are no longer allowed to talk to reporters or to be freely quoted about automotive safety issues that affect pretty much everybody.
Waste and consumerism – Aug 22
Africa wages war on scourge of plastic bags
Japan eyes chopsticks for biofuel
Dirty chopsticks picked up in new China scare
Sharon Astyk: Toys R Not Us
Solutions & sustainability – Aug 23
When the sun is shining, break out the solar oven
Slow is beautiful
Building the climate camp (video)
Transport – Aug 21
China’s new middle class in love with cars – big cars
Less driving is more cash for Portland
India: Plastic car will be world’s cheapest
Trains on track to play key role in bioeconomy
Zimbabwe air transport sector hits turbulence
Housing & urban design – Aug 21
New guidebook: Post Carbon Cities: Planning for Energy and Climate Uncertainty
Astyk: The brother-in-law on your couch vision of the apocalypse
Mud: building block of the future
Transport – Aug 20
Heathrow growth is Plane Stupid focus
PT users unite in call for federal funds
Legal quiz on £5.5m rail platform
Buses threaten strike if trams get the green light
Inspectors told to stay away
Bikes – Aug 20
Kenya: Levies threaten to push boda bodas off the roads
State of cycling (in NYC)
Beijing to rent out 50,000 bicycles ahead of Olympics
The one-of-a-kind wooden bicycle
Paris goes cycling mad, declares vélorution
Postal holiday
Posting at Energy Bulletin will be light and scattered through the weekend, returning to normal on Monday evening.
Geopolitics – Aug 14
Energy: Europe’s escape routes from Moscow
Energy-hungry Turkey drilling for more oil
Iranian president replaces oil and industry ministers
