Transport – July 3
Clear Up the Congestion-Pricing Gridlock
Near the rails but still on the road
Plane Stupid activists give aviation a bumpy ride
Ontario to introduce truck speed limiters
Bikes beat the rush in commuter challenge
Society
The Home Front
Excerpts from recent Australian documentary on home energy use and efficiency.
Deceptive landscape
My pleasant walk through these leafy streetscapes is deceptive. For all its orderliness this neighborhood generates enormous entropy that is hidden from the viewer’s eyes. This has implications for our political life because these are the kinds of neighborhoods across the United States from which communities draw their leaders and in which turnout is heaviest during election time.
The media awake – June 30
America could do with a few feral beasts
Investigative journalism and the Washington elite
Moyers on Murdoch
Media
Newsreader’s anger over Paris story (rips it up on camera)
The Murdoch Factor
Wall St Journal staff stay away in protest against Murdoch takeover plans
Transport – June 28
Fears of ‘transport poverty’
Is there a Model T in your future?
Get Americans to drive less by raising gas taxes
California has worst U.S. traffic
Public transit ridership in Canada hits record
A flight path to greener air travel
Bogota's urban happiness movement
From living hell to living well: A radical campaign to return streets from cars to people in Columbia’s largest city is now a model for the world.
The difference between hypocrisy and unilateral disarmament
At least one prominent person in the peak oil movement says he can no longer justify attending overseas conferences because of the energy used and the greenhouse gases emitted. And yet, to forego travel and modern methods of communication altogether would be to engage in unilateral disarmament.
Transport – Jun 25
Dubai’s hot new buses
Netherlands trials free public transport at hotspots
Manchester expands security scheme for cyclists
Firms turn up heat on SNP in bid to save trams
More US commuters drive solo
Drivers unfazed by new energy bill
Water – June 25
Hubs of economy face rain shortfall in Australia
California facing the ‘perfect drought’
Desalination no answer to water crisis: WWF
Deep thinking – June 23
Can we be happy using less energy? Uhh..YES!
Constitutionally unsuited to the 21st century
Unlucky to have a job
The company we keep (business organization)
Solutions & sustainability – June 21
Colin Fletcher, backpacking trailblazer, dies
A wiser Earth movement (Paul Hawken)
Debating energy as if communities mattered
Archdruid envisions the future:
Adam’s Story
Sharon Astyk interview
