Renewables – Feb 18
Britain is third worst in EU for use of renewable energy
Greenpeace: All about EfficienCity
Eliminating fossil fuels is friggin’ cheap
Walking: new source of energy
Buildings
The lure of the city
The history of the 19th and 20th centuries could fairly be characterized as the history of urbanization. Will the history of the 21st century be more of the same?
World first: U.S. city fights climate change and global oil depletion together
Spokane Mayor Mary Verner announced a new strategic planning effort to identify and address the impacts of climate change and energy security,
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 13
Does peak oil “make ordinary politics irrelevant”?
Monastery throws switch on green initiatives
Generation Green taking on parents to help them save the planet
How former miners transformed a pit into an energy village
Eco-villages prove to be sustainable
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 12
10 ways recession can help the environment
Re-Energize Texas summit – if Texas can do it…
The one-tonne-carbon lifestyle
Making conventions environmentally friendly
Don’t let the green grass fool you (Suburbanites awake)
Dave Cohen’s suburban savanna
There may be an instinctual basis for our love of suburbia, one that may be hard to break through even as the cheap oil which has made suburbia possible disappears.
Urban design – Feb 8
How global forces are affecting cities
UK’s rules for front gardens to fight floods
In many communities, it’s not easy going green
Transport & urban design – Feb 7
What communities need to do to survive climate change
Managing traffic in the urban age
Time running out to fix Australia’s transport
Walkable cities
Transport – Feb 5
Next car debate: total miles driven
Ex-Shell chair: EU ‘should ban inefficient cars’
Danger in the bike lane
Peak oil – Feb 2
In depth report on San Francisco Peak Oil Preparedness Task Force
Energy Roundtable: Simmons, Hirsch, Rubin
Understanding the current energy crisis in South Africa
Housing & urban design – Feb 2
Dmitry Orlov on living aboard a boat
Porous streets work – even in rainy Oregon
12 things that shaped green building
Is the desire to relocalize merely aesthetic?
If the concept of peak oil proves anything, it’s that this most “utilitarian” civilization in history is paradoxically one of the most blind. How can we, who are so practical and scientific, have failed to notice that we were careening toward the edge of this cliff? And is it possible that our conditioned insensitivity to so-called “aesthetic” concerns is, in fact, a big part of the problem?
