Housing & urban design – Feb 13
How to Save the Suburbs: Solutions from the Man Who Saw the Whole Thing Coming
Casa De Botellas: Turning Waste into Modular Construction
Good design makes for better communities
Buildings
Housing & urban design – Feb 5
More families move in together during housing crisis
NYT: Saving the Suburbs, Part 2
Resource: Green Urbanism Down Under
Rebuilding America – Feb 4
Can We Transform the Auto-Industrial Society?
Kunstler’s Road Trip
What Obama Must Do On the Road to Copenhagen
Peak oil, the web of debt, & our local future
A new set of high definition videos are now online: Richard Heinberg on peak oil, Thaddeus Owen on permaculture, Ellen Brown on financial collapse, Tim Husdon on the four futures, and Kim Hill on the auto industry crisis, and more.
Housing & urban design – Jan 30
A City Made of Waste
Independence vs Splendid Isolation
EntropyPawsed Uses “A Pattern Language”
Peak Moment 124: Creating Our Own Neighborhood – Bellingham Cohousing
Kathleen Nolan was a co-creator (with 5 others) of Bellingham Cohousing, based on a neighborhood design of private homes and shared buildings, managed by residents in participatory decision making. Their 5.74 acre plot originally had one farmhouse, which they modified to become the shared community building with dining, kitchen, laundry, craft, office, guest, and other rooms.
Peak Moment 120: Go-Getter Gets Governments Going on Sustainability
Energetic Kris Holstrom is the first Sustainability Coordinator for Telluride and a smart Colorado county. The action plan she developed encompasses energy efficiency and renewables, green building, food and water security, economy, and recycling/resource recovery.
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 28
The Transition Movement comes to America
Watch This Video: City-Based Ecovillages
Powerdown toolkit #1- climate and peak oil
Housing & urban design – Jan 27
From Nuisance to Asset: The Greening of Alleyways
Thermal Storage Mass
Big Homes, 1-Person Households are Main Causes of Consumer Energy Waste
Expert sees housing growing more green
ODAC Newsletter – 23 Jan
A weekly round-up from a UK perspective
Transition Towns on the move
Transition Town networking site for the U.S. – beginning of a movement?
Post Carbon Institute launches partnership with Transition United States
Transition Town movement gains traction in New Zealand
Renewables & efficiency Jan 16
Alarmed by claims about Google searches
Growth in Energy Use Could Drop 22 Percent by 2030 Under Right Conditions: Report
It’s Flue Season
