Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Reinventing Collapse by Dmitry Orlov released
Panel Discussion: James Howard Kunstler and Nikos Salingaros
How the government could pay us to stay home and garden
Carolyn Baker: Rapid unraveling and the decline of adolescent America
Mike Splinter: renewable energy is the solution
Green cement
Microgen in the UK
The suburb-eating robot
Intent shapes environment, environment shapes life
Pedicabs a hit in Bellingham
Rob Hopkins on permaculture (interview)
Dmitry Orlov details the Collapse Party platform
Paul Krugman: Stranded in suburbia
Jamais Cascio: The suburban question
The American car culture is running out of gas
Don’t buy that new Prius! Test-drive a used car instead
Study: Global warming not worsening hurricanes
Real Climate: Don’t take false comfort
Zones of death are spreading in oceans
Businesses in crisis from Murray drought
Animated map brings climate crisis to life
Climate booklet from National Academies online
As founder of the earthen building movement in Thailand, Jo Jandai has contributed much to the concept of living sustainably. … We later stopped at a mountain community that had formed in the wake of a ten-year protest. I had been intrigued by this band of villagers that had set up camp on the lawn of the elegant parliament building in Bangkok. The villagers had lost their homes due to a large dam project (funded by the World Bank) flooding their land.
Heinberg: Saying goodbye to air travel
Peak-oil spike reshapes the suburbs
Bicycles pedaling into the spotlight
Calculating commuting costs on Vancouver Island
Ready For anything (but reality)
Juneau cuts electricity use 30% in weeks
School not always greener (but it could be)
Sustainability for competitive advantage
If your appliances are avocado, they probably aren’t green
Paul Krugman: Stranded in suburbia
Nissan plans electric car in U.S. by ’10
Diesel cars – promises and problems
Innovators are making the Pittsburgh region an eco-showcase of the benefits of going green and bringing new hope to the economically depressed Rust Belt region. (Highly recommended. Excerpts – audio and video available)
Parking space as living space
Brentwood, poster child for housing bust
Krugman: We’re Number One! (in car use)
Extreme commutes
Bicycle sales up
Investors forget that transport companies run on oil
Summitgoers push for sustainable cities
Gas prices send surge of riders to mass transit
Los Angeles: Fuel prices a driving force for change – away from autos
Planes fly more, emit less greenhouse gas
