Media – Sept 1
Point, click… eavesdrop: how the FBI wiretap net operates
How to submit ebooks to Project Gutenberg
A guide to media manipulation
Society
Transport – Sept 1
Climate, conscience, and atmospheric carbon (air travel)
YouTube on Vélib’, the bike rental scheme that’s shaking up Paris
Solutions & sustainability – Aug 29
Jumbo jar is ready for rain (Thai water saving)
Radical Simplicity and the Fourth Step (online book)
What must we do?
Transport – Aug 29
Hooky Bump’in, and other parasitic relationships
The green VW
Save the environment, work from home
The twelfth hour
For decades our collective conversation about the future has focused on claims that the eleventh hour has arrived and radical change is the only alternative to imminent catastrophe. Inevitably the peak oil situation has been portrayed in these terms.
Deep thought – Aug 28
Sharon Astyk: Diversify, diversify, diversify
The Plan (a new human culture)
The Economist: Problems of aging, shrinking population
Transport – Aug 27
In India, one cheap car could go a long way
Sharon Astyk: Get on a bike
How walkable is your neighborhood?
Virgin Blue finds fuel costs add drag
Transport – Aug 25
Netherlands: Car sharing gaining popularity
Bikes in Portland: We like fun, but we really like functional
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
