Housing & urban design – Apr 11
Scrapping skyscrapers
Exhibit recalls architecture’s response to the 1973 oil crisis
Low-carbon living takes off in the US – cohousing
Kunstler and Homer-Dixon
Buildings
Housing & urban design – Apr 9
Ecocity World Summit: April 22-26 in San Francisco
Dubai’s Masdar City – preparing for PO?
Kunstler: The glossary of nowhere
Foreclosures come to McMansion country
Housing & urban design – Apr 4
UK’s Ecotowns – why the protests?
Energy and climate initiatives in Santa Barbara
Green architecture and urbanism – new report
Heinberg: Resilient communities – paths for powering down:
Now that he’d warmed us up with a talk on ‘Peak Everything,’ Richard Heinberg said he’d come back to try out some new ideas he’d working with over the past few weeks. “It’s all a big unknown,” he admitted, but had decided we were the kind of audience that could handle the unknown. Where are we? Where are we going?
Housing & urban design – Apr 3
NYC approves fees on city drivers
Life in the ‘burbs: heavy costs for families, climate
Eco-towns? Britons say no thanks
Walkable towns curb obesity, pollution
Heinberg on ‘resilient communities: paths for powering down’
The first public airing by Richard Heinberg of a new concept he has been developing: a Resilient Communities Action Plan.
United States – March 31
WSJ: Ten days that changed capitalism
Dollar chilled by rise of euro
Suburban sprawl, by the numbers
‘They’re going to have to give properties away’
Silent insect killer ravages West: pine beetles and global warming
Transport – Mar 30
$1,200 a month fuels long commutes
Stuck in our cars on the highway to hell
Airlines lighten up to cut fuel costs
Activists do it locally – Mar 30
Denmark embraces a clean green dream
Vermont takes a baby step
Portland (Maine) – roadmap to sustainability
Urban design – Mar 26
Transition Towns movement hits “The Archers”, UK cultural intitution
Urban jungle: growing fruit and vegetables in UK town-centres
China’s green building movement
Kunstler on zoning and “starchitects”
Housing & urban design – Mar 23
Freiburg – greenest city in the world?
Radiohead’s
Thom Yorke questions Mayor of London about his radical eco vision
Kunstler on parking garages
Urban design – Mar 20
Green? Dense? Walkable?
Respect for the human scale (Polycarpou interviews Kunstler and Salingaros)
Suburban sprawl pollutes Hungary
