Come gather round cities – Nov 14
UK’s towns on ‘the road to enlightenment’
Chicago takes a shine to Portland
Wales: How green is my valley?
Post-carbon cities and the future of growth
Building Community
Peak oil – Nov 13
Preparing for Peak Oil– a new report from ODAC
Turkish Weekly: Global peak oil and dollar
Have global stock markets peaked on peak oil?
Spiked reviews A Crude Awakening
Energy decline and national GDP in 2050: the growth of destitution
ODAC News
Transport – Nov 11
Ed Black on who killed the electric car and the electric streetcar
Want better transit? Unionize!
Ship emissions seen causing 60,000 deaths a year
South African cities need to change lanes as oil runs dry
Most of South Africa’s cities experienced their growth during the course of the 20th century. In large part, our cities were structured through the lens of segregation and apartheid. The evolution of our cities is also intimately bound up with the prevalence of abundant cheap oil.
Solutions & sustainability – Nov 8
Innovative program helps residents protect their water
Environmentalism with a social conscience
Taking the tasty approach
Green computing update
Solutions & sustainability – Nov 5
How to save the planet – did they get it right?
A Code of ethics for sustainability professionals
What future Brighton?
Lay Catholic community Agape
Food & agriculture – Nov 5
Michael Pollan on the farm bill
Church urges supermarkets to give farmers a fairer deal
Sharon Astyk: Change your diet
Food and community in Katine (Uganda)
Commodity, fuel costs boost grocery prices
Cities – Nov 5
Mayors, looking to cities’ future, are told it must be colored green
U.S. mayors find it’s not easy to be green
Bloomberg and Clinton at mayors conference
Ken Livingstone on climate change
Review: Renewable City
Let’s play “Peak Oil Shock Me”
An increasingly popular parlor game among peak oil activists is to see who can serve up the most shocking morsel of peak oil news at any one sitting. There are now plenty of morsels to choose from on an almost daily basis.
Climate policy – Nov 3
Climate change and tourism
Religious leaders act on climate change
Emirates airline executive rubbishes Gore’s climate film
Housing & urban development – Nov 2
Isle of Wight: eco trailblazer
Green roofs start to sprout on urban homes
U.S. mayors meet in Seattle to push for a green revolution
Washington’s largest prison gets green certification
Renewables – Nov 2
Bill McKibben: What rhymes with waste-heat recovery?
Kenyan slum saves trees, cleans streets with big trash oven
How to build a local energy economy
Mammoth wind farm slated for S. Dakota
Viability of Antarctic windfarm
‘Wall of money’ set to flow into Asian renewable energy
