Solutions & sustainability – August 28
Cultivating a suburban foodshed (audio and video)
Talking directly, and kindly, to believers in the eco life – (profile of “Ask Umbra”)
Little Farm in the City(text and video)
Buildings
Urban design – Aug 25
Walkable Seattle
NYC’s Summer Streets a success!
Tyranny of distance fuels rising grocery prices in Australia
Choking suburbs to stop global warming
United States – Aug 25
Americans think worst of 2008 oil spike over: poll
In California’s Central Valley, the ruins of the housing bust
NYT:
US and global economies slipping in unison
Oil and gas playing dumb and numbers
Transport – Aug 24
Toronto’s mysterious bicycle thief
New Republic: The end of aviation
Drivers to pay for oil shock in NZ
The age of the train returns to French provinces
Suddenly, sharing a ride looks good
Housing & urban design – August 22
Trading Places – The demographic inversion of the American city
San Francisco ponders: Could bike lanes cause pollution?
Transition initiatives in North America
Housing & urban design – August 18
What is the future of suburbia? A freakonomics quorum
Watch where you’re walking (audio, slideshow)
Kunstler: Anti-Urban Bias (audio)
Transport – Aug 17
Downtowns across the U.S. see streetcars in their future
Think flying stinks? It may get worse
Green fuel for the airline industry?
France’s August traffic jam
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
Climate – Aug 11
Tim Flannery: Words of warming
Global warming threatens indigenous peoples: FAO
World Bank: Climate resilient cities
Food & agriculture – Aug 11
The limits of localism (vertical farms?)
The locavore’s dilemma: finding places to plant
Can cattle save us from global warming?
Nigeria: Farming – the neglected obligation
The food crisis and global institutions
Suburbia – Aug 11
The decline Of suburbia?
Gas prices apply brakes To suburban migration
The future of shopping malls
Housing & urban design – August 6
Foreclosures forcing commuters from San Joaquin Valley back to Bay Area
Little house on a small planet (video and audio)
SF Mayor signs tough green-building bill
