Two wheels good!
Bicycle recyclers empower riders
Financial bailout gives tax break to bicycle commuters
How powerful is your workout?
Scooter-ful?
Building Community
Solutions & sustainability – Oct 10
Bright Neighbor
The Gathering Inn: bed, breakfast and beyond (part 2)
Pint-Size Eco-Police, Making Parents Proud and Sometimes Crazy
Peak oil focus of Michigan conference in November
Over 30 speakers including Richard Heinberg, Ellen Hodgson Brown, Albert Bates, Stephanie Mills, Kurt Cobb, Richard Gilbert, John Richter, Tim Hudson, Bill Wilson, Tony Earley, Jerry Norcia, Paul Murray and Aaron Wissner explore the challenges and possibilities for Michigan’s future at a three day solution oriented conference in November.
Solutions & sustainability – Oct 8
The futureproofers
Rural communities best equipped to cope with climate change: UN report
World Resources 2008: Roots of Resilience – Growing the Wealth of the Poor
Natural healing
When faith in the dollar runs out
All I can think about is how utterly unprepared most people are here in the U.S. to cope with the coming challenges swirling around the Venn-diagram intersection of global economic collapse, peak oil, and global climate change. For any problem, I find it’s always helpful (for me at least) to formulate a “to do list.”
“Reinventing Collapse” by Dmitry Orlov (book review)
Well, first of all, it’s funny. Really. I don’t mean it’s filled with jokes, but Dmitry Orlov has a very humorous and biting style. This humorous approach serves two important purposes: 1) It makes the book enjoyable to read. 2) It helps the reader develop a certain healthy detachment from the subject matter.
Solutions & sustainability – Oct 7
I challenge you to buy sustainably
The carbon footprint of divorce
Finding opportunity in peak oil
A green path out of the red
Roberto Perez’s visit to Totnes
The geeks were right
Peak textiles – Oct 7
Make Your Own Homemade Natural Dyes
Woody Harrelson’s view of hemp farming: strong fibres, and cuts pesticides
From Recycled Scraps To Museum-Quality Quilts
Transport – Oct 6
How Can We Cut Our Energy Use for Commuting?
How Low-Carbon Can You Go: The Transportation Ranking
As international airfares soar, Americans stay in USA
In defense of the family farm
I have in mind… the one example known to me of an American community of small family farmers who have not only survived but thrived during some very difficult years: I mean the Amish. I do not recommend, of course, that all farmers should become Amish, nor do I want to suggest that the Amish are perfect people or that their way of life is perfect. What I want to recommend are some Amish principles
Finding Main Street good in the Wall Street crash
Going forward into the peak oil decline years, strong local economies are all that stand between us and collapse… When people shift their money from trans-continental banks to local banks and credit unions, their money goes to work in their own neighborhood and strengthens the real, local economy where they live and work.
Housing & urban design – Oct 5
Crossing paths in “The Walkable City”
To save energy, cities darken street lights
Future solutions in 1930s house
San Francisco speaks
New York speaks
