United States – June 17
McCain calls for more offshore oil drilling
More drilling won’t help
U.S. cities for the 21st century
Brookings: Rethinking American Transportation for the 21st Century
Buildings
Transport – June 16
Bill McKibben: Free public transit for all
When is a bike not a bike? When it’s electric
The threat to the car
Community – June 16
Sandpoint becomes 2nd Transition Town in U.S.
Portland: Step program for gasoholics (Peak Oil taskforce no longer’apocalyptic’)
To hell with debate, what can the simple folk do?
38 pounds lighter, all from recycling
Community Guide to Environmental Health: comprehensive book, downloadable from Hesperian
Coping with the peak – June 5
Pittsburgh: When the oil runs out
Mark Morford:
Stay home, read, have sex
Robert Reich: We need public transportation but can’t get it
Black Commentator: Taking the train to a clean environment, a sustainable economy & jobs
Housing & urban design – June 3
Yuba homebuyers face mounting commuting costs – suburban equivalents of ghost towns?
Second Great Depression in Detroit – time for a revival? (houses for $5000)
Rural Canada:
Guzzling up their way of life
Housing & urban design – June 1
Wenchuan as eco-city
Contractors kept busy maintaining abandoned homes
“Sorry, Out of Gas 1973” – Architecture’s response to the energy crisis
Germany looks to boost biking
Car culture on the decline – June 1
Driving’s dim future (funny/sad)
The era of fast cars is over
Gridlock led 27 pct of drivers to abandon trips
Overcoming car culture like ‘waiting for Godot’
Peak oil – June 1
Kenneth Deffeyes: Oil production, oil price
TOD: Peak oil media
Kunstler on reactivating small cities, Peak Oil New Zealand
Tennessee: So long to cheap oil
Report on Michigan peak oil conference
The peak oil crisis: speculation, subsidies & megacities
Those living in the world’s new mega- and hypercities are going to have a far tougher time. Oil has built these monstrosities where 100s of millions will be trapped without direct access to food supplies and cooking fuel. Someday, the historians will note that the collapse of many megacities was among the first real tragedies of peak oil.
Transport – May 28
Soaring fuel costs whittle away at Asia’s cheap-labour advantage
Fuel takes a withering toll on truckers
Bad news for Detroit: Miles per gallon
Auto industry feels the pain of tight credit
Housing & urban design – May 26
McMansions no more
Ceilings come down to earth
Barcelona as sustainable city model
Deep thought – May 25
Cars are driving us nuts (interview with traffic scientist Hermann Knoflacher)
Jan Lundberg: Fix the cities? Maybe not
