The future has pedals – July 2
Bamboo bike quite the offshoot
UN calls for pedal power
Have canoe, will cycle: World Heritage sustainable commuting
Time pedals on for Critical Mass
Building Community
Food & agriculture – July 1
Toward a garden truce in New York City
UK organic food under threat- too much demand
Conservative Hanson: Fuel and food create spiral of rising prices
Call for a moratorium on EU agrofuel incentives
Deceptive landscape
My pleasant walk through these leafy streetscapes is deceptive. For all its orderliness this neighborhood generates enormous entropy that is hidden from the viewer’s eyes. This has implications for our political life because these are the kinds of neighborhoods across the United States from which communities draw their leaders and in which turnout is heaviest during election time.
Solutions & sustainability – June 30
Julian Darley interview
Creating an Energy Descent Action Plan
Keep on the sunny side (solar)
Society ‘needs the right chemistry’
The media awake – June 30
America could do with a few feral beasts
Investigative journalism and the Washington elite
Moyers on Murdoch
Media
Newsreader’s anger over Paris story (rips it up on camera)
The Murdoch Factor
Wall St Journal staff stay away in protest against Murdoch takeover plans
Putting another log on the fire
So I got my first internet based marital proposition from someone in federal prison (minimum security, I was assured!) the other day.
Solutions & sustainability – June 28
The 12 steps of Transition – the movie(s)
Soil: The secret solution to global warming
Terra Preta- agricultural miracle from the past?
10 Steps to a slow home
Germany mulling program to boost energy efficiency
Solutions & sustainability – June 25
A street legal human-powered car
Michael Brownlee on relocalization
What assures consumers on climate change?
FourCorners: Ways for Australians to cut energy consumption
Peak oil & coal – June 25
Anglicans: The peak oil society
Grassroots peak oil in Albany
The coal question and climate change
Future Energy: How the New Oil Industry Will Change People, Politics and Portfolios
Peak oil is snake oil!
Solutions & sustainability – June 21
Colin Fletcher, backpacking trailblazer, dies
A wiser Earth movement (Paul Hawken)
Debating energy as if communities mattered
Archdruid envisions the future:
Adam’s Story
Sharon Astyk interview
Transport – June 21
Vatican issues ’10 Commandments’ for drivers
Oregon death prompts bill protecting cyclists
Australia: Cheap fuel a sham
