Housing & urban design – Dec 24
Rail-Volution: Building livable communities with transit
The collective costs of suburban sprawl
“It’s a Wonderful Life” – not so wonderful
The way we will live: houses of the future
Society
Rail – Dec 24
Rail boom hits environmental, NIMBY snags
North Coast Railroad Authority
Rail-Volution
“Happy Relocalisers”, Doomers, Wheelwrights and the concept of Resilience
A key concept in the whole responses-to-peak-oil debate of whether one might prioritise individual survival over communal survival, or vice versa, may well be one found in the study of ecology, that of resilience.
Iran & Mideast oil – Dec 22
UN poised to pass Iran sanctions despite threat
U.S. plans naval buildup in Gulf to counter Iran
Finally, wisdom in Washington on our oil future
Turning off the digital world
More than 6 million PCs will be left on over Christmas, consuming nearly 40 million kilowatt hours of electricity. Many of our beloved technological toys are remarkably inefficient and use more electricity than they really need to.
Solutions & sustainability – Dec 19
Language as a tool for culture change in agriculture
Flannery: Make the polluter pay
10 days without fossil fuels
Can Weird Al Yankovic save the world?
Dollar hegemony – Dec 19
The end of Dollar supremacy
Lester Brown: Why China is rising and the U.S. is declining
Venezuela, oil producers buy Euro as Dollar, oil fall
Dollar dropped in Iran asset move
Chief banker says Iran to use all currencies in int’l exchanges
WSJ: Dollars, debt and the trade gap
Debut of the ‘Amero’?
100 Things You Can Do to Get Ready for Peak Oil
100 serious household preparation tips for coming energy scarcity.
Population and the Sixth Great Extinction
Flying blind to the brink of extinction
The impending mass extinction & how to stop it
Complex marine systems evolved after mass extinction of earth species
Evangelicals on extinction
Nine billion or bust!
Population: Apocalypse now
China’s water shortage a population problem
The Right to Pursue Powerdown: Seeking alternative lifestyles post-peak
What legal obstacles might prevent us from pursuing personal powerdown strategies and how might we change them?
Pope calls energy alternatives a source of peace
In an annual message for peace, Pope Benedict XVI strongly emphasized a theme rarely taken up in his nearly two years as pope: what he called the “ecology of peace,” the idea that protecting the environment and finding alternative energy sources could reduce conflict.
Solutions & sustainability – Dec 12
In praise of sweet darkness
Composting toilets offer solution to water, sanitation problems
How to give up cycling
