Transport – Nov 5
Hints of Comeback for Nation’s First Superhighway
Cash-strapped motorists turn to car sharing
Pedal pushers only
Staff
Housing & urban design – Nov 5
Efficiency’s Mark: City Glitters a Little Less
All the comforts of a teeny-tiny home
Retrofits for All!
United States & Canada – Nov 5
The Next President
A Date With Scarcity
Canada an environmental slouch, study says
Hunting for your dream place
I have a hunch that at no previous time in modern history have there been more people getting ready for their long planned – for move to a garden farm than right now. We are at the end of the era of unbelievably wasteful consumption and many people are realizing that the old adage is again appropriate: “Root, hog, or die.”
A proposal for transition to a sustainable economy
The following is proposed as a preliminary plan for discussion amongst all those who are willing to acknowledge the reality of our predicament, think beyond the paradigm of the current system, and rationally discuss the fundamental reforms required to avoid catastrophe.
United States – Nov 4
Sacrifice theme returns to US politics
Kunstler: A nervous nation
Perpetrator of B.C. blast likely from area, police say
Obama might ‘bankrupt’ coal, but so would McCain
Postcard to the new U.S. Prez
A darker future for us
Peak oil – Nov 4
UK industry taskforce sounds alarm on peak oil
Supply worries persist in oil market, just not now
So *this* is what Peak Oil looks like
China’s Oil Reserve Forecast and Analysis Based on Peak Oil Models
Passing of an era – Nov 4
The dawn of a disturbing new reality
Cassandra’s lethal paradox
Sharon Astyk: Equity, equity, equity
Revenge of the Left across the world
Geopolitics – Nov 4
World faces growing risk of conflict: US intelligence chief
How we fuel Africa’s bloodiest war
China seeks oil for arms in Latin America
Renewables & efficiency – Nov 4
A Splash of Green for the Rust Belt
Green-collar army recruits for the solar boom
COM-BAT spy plane takes to the skies
New Research Suggests LED Lighting May Put A Serious Wrinkle in Big-Bucks Botox Biz
The ethics of ethanol
Food & agriculture – Nov 4
Heinberg: The Food and Farming Transition
A bounty sprouts in the city with MyFarm enterprise
Green prisons farm, recycle to save energy, money
Food Insecurity’s Dirty Secret
Victoria: Call for action as state food security at risk
The Transitions of Addison County
A world with energy doubled in price That’s the scenario for the year 2020 that 150 people in Addison County, Vermont considered for a day last weekend. The participants’ task was to figure out what they want their world to look like under that scenario, and then figure out how to move in that direction.
