Solutions & sustainability – Aug 18
Buying into ‘organic,’ ‘natural,’ ‘local’
Slow Food Nation celebrates the good, clean and fair
Homer-Dixon: Everything is not peachy (food self-sufficiency)
What if we all got money-smart?
Building Community
Holiday in UK shows Peak Oil decline is well on its way
Ex-pat Steve holidays in England, only to find signs of the effects of peak oil everywhere. Over the period of two weeks a number of newspaper articles confirm that the perfect post-peak storm is brewing in this land, once a proud net exporter of oil.
Losing control
Humankind has control issues, and they’re about to get a lot worse.
How students get around
My friends and I see this shift as a good thing – youth leading the way toward decisions that could result in more livable communities, better health, lower emissions and less fossil fuel dependency.
Housing & urban design – August 13
Australia: Rising costs fuel economic stress
What our cities could be
Smart Growth: The good news about high gas prices
They took away all the cars in NYC – Summer Streets 2008
Atrios: Rules for urban design
Trash – August 12
The waste-pickers of Delhi
Junk raft raises awareness of plastics despite adversity, challenges
Recyclers are cashing in on the fortune in your bin
Largest water solar heater with PET bottles installed in Parana, Brazil
A tall, cool drink of … sewage?
Solutions & sustainability – August 12
Living simply by sharing space
Going vintage is going green
Bikes, Copenhagen and Disneyland: what we have in common
Go-getter gets governments going on sustainability
Cycling with the wind behind you (electric bikes in NL)
Deep thought – August 12
Ehrlichs: Too many people, too much consumption
We must green the market
No longer a lunatic
The perpetual assault on ecological and economic reason.
Suburbia – Aug 11
The decline Of suburbia?
Gas prices apply brakes To suburban migration
The future of shopping malls
Book Review: Climate Code Red- the Case for Emergency Action
Book review Climate Code Red – Climate Code Red, by David Spratt and Philip Sutton, Scribe Publications 2008
Climate & environment – August 8
Local gardeners do their part to record possible ‘global weirding’
Climate-change program to aid poor nations is shut
Environment: Intense rainfall due to global warming could raise flood risk
Reviving the Household Economy, Part Two: The Decline and Fall of Home Economics
Behind the collapse of the household economy in modern American society lie sweeping changes in social roles and the collective imagination. Can those forces be harnessed to deal with the challenges of a world in the wake of peak oil?
