Solutions & sustainability – Sept 1
Fred’s footprint: Measuring our global impact
Duncan Law on climate change and transition initiatives
Building Community
Home grown apples can save the planet…
An oil crisis is coming, to add to our climate change woes. And the only practical solution is in our own back yards.
Solutions & sustainability – Aug 29
Jumbo jar is ready for rain (Thai water saving)
Radical Simplicity and the Fourth Step (online book)
What must we do?
Peak oil – Aug 29
Peak oil theater: Flamingo/Winnebago
News from TOD Canada
ODAC News
Food & agriculture – Aug 28
The power of produce (health claims)
Farming the concrete jungle
Study links CO2 to demise of grazing lands
Zimbabwe: Give fertilizer sector priority on power
Useful mutants, bred with radiation
Economics – Aug 27
Daddy, where does money come from?
Sharon Astyk: My one and only stock market advice post
No reason to assume she’ll be right, mate
Transport – Aug 27
In India, one cheap car could go a long way
Sharon Astyk: Get on a bike
How walkable is your neighborhood?
Virgin Blue finds fuel costs add drag
Solutions & sustainability – Aug 27
The kibbutz sheds socialism and gains popularity
Know your carbon impact
100-square-foot house fits him
MIT pushes the revolving door to save energy
Efficiency measures could cut data center, server energy use by half
Deeper than a mud puddle
Story from the point of view of a farmer in an intentional community in a post-Peak Oil world several years from now.
Solutions & sustainability – Aug 25
Altar call for true believers
‘Right to Dry’ movement: the clothesline makes a comeback
Sharon Astyk on cutting your laundry energy
Solutions & sustainability – Aug 23
When the sun is shining, break out the solar oven
Slow is beautiful
Building the climate camp (video)
Housing & urban design – Aug 21
New guidebook: Post Carbon Cities: Planning for Energy and Climate Uncertainty
Astyk: The brother-in-law on your couch vision of the apocalypse
Mud: building block of the future
