What our grandparents can teach us about saving the world
The World War II home front was the most important and broadly participatory green experiment in U.S. history.
Society
A 10% reduction in America's oil use in 10-12 years
A 10% reduction in America’s oil consumption is not out of reach. There is an overlooked, practical, and affordable approach using technology available today that would allow the U.S. to achieve this goal in 2017.
Housing & urban design – July 9
When building green ain’t so green
First zero emissions, zero waste city in Abu Dhabi
Urban chic: city growth can be ‘a force for good’
Two wheels good – July 6
Bicycles in Africa: Transportation for everything (wooden bikes)
French revolution: Rentable bikes every 900 feet
Transport – July 6
17 reasons to stop charging people to ride the bus:
The case for fare-free transit
India races for the world’s cheapest car
Local rail- an overview
Nelson: Oil a factor in Australia's Iraq deployment
The Howard Government has today admitted that securing oil supplies is a factor in Australia’s continued military involvement in Iraq.
Imaginary countries
July 4th’s civic rituals across America celebrate the triumph of pragmatic politics in a very different age. Do the events of 1776 have a lesson for us on the edge of peak oil?
Honest John?
Australian PM John Howard and Defence Minister Brendan Nelson have finally decided to adopt the realist position on the Iraq war and admit that it is about controlling the oil.
Leaving the morality of the situation aside, the debate should now focus on a full cost benefit analysis of whether the price we will pay for this exercise in militant mercantilism is actually worth it.
Update: Apparently Johnny is now saying that oil has nothing to do with it after all.
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
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
