Housing & transportation – Apr 28
Gas prices box in an Alabama community
Housing bubble popped by spike in fuel costs
Mow is less (lawns)
Buildings
Transport – Apr 27
Diamond lanes for the rich
Goodbye SUV, hello small cars
Don’t ask me to give up flying
Urban design – Apr 27
Greening of America: ambitious tree-planting programs are sprouting up
Mass-produced sustainable living in China?
Kunstler:
Picturing suburbia
Peak oil – Apr 25
Simmons: Has Twilight In The Desert begun?
Peak oil interview with Prof Peter Newman
James Kunstler in Business Week
Le Québec pourrait manquer de pétrole dès 2030
PO is real, it’s time economists faced up
Transport – Apr 24
Group touts telecommuting’s green benefits
Not guzzling quite so much gas
Housing – Apr 22
Home prices drop most in areas with long commute
Kunstler on urban planning
Children of the ‘burbs
Solutions & sustainability – Apr 22
Green issue of NY Times Magazine
Cuban permaculturalist visits Australia
Seattle’s Local Food Action Initiative a cure for society’s ills?
Life (mostly) off the grid
Ontario set to veto ban on clotheslines
We regret to inform you…
When climate change and peak oil thinkers run out of other things to worry about, there’s always the endless, inevitable debates about whether we are facing a “fast crash” or a “slow grind.” When no one was looking, we got an answer. Fast crash wins. And we’re in it now.
Is there life after oil?
James Howard Kunstler is America’s version of an Old Testament prophet, a stinging social critic who warns of dark days ahead if we do not change the way we live. (Interview)
Transport – Apr 15
Homer-Dixon: future of travel and conferences
Oil, environment, lifestyle fuel Asia’s two-wheeler boom
Kunstler on Flagstaff and hydrogen cars
Housing & urban design – Apr 15
An Atlas of Radical Cartography
The incredible shrinking city: Youngstown, Ohio
Creating sustainable cities
Transport – Apr 13
UK road haulage: Crushed on the road to oil armageddon
The new age of the train
Grounded aircraft to be converted into trains
When cheap housing isn’t: how transportation changes the equation
