Up from dysfunction – Jan 31
Move it, you just might get younger
California to probe development of ‘green’ chemicals
From buses to blogs, a pathological individualism is poisoning public life
Buildings
Former CEO of Talisman Energy: Peak oil is ‘here or hereabouts’
Dr Jim Buckee has just retired as President and CEO of Talisman Energy, a major independent Canadian oil company with a market capitalisation of $25-billion. On the phone from Perth, Dr Buckee told me that ‘peak oil’ was now either here, or very close.
Housing & urban design – Jan 30
Abu Dhabi’s zero-carbon ‘ecotopia’
Berkeley envisions ambitious energy plan
Address climate change through land use
Making the transition
Mind the ruins
Lists of things worth saving from collapse and destruction can be made arbitrarily long: the wetlands, the symphony orchestra, the public library, the public transportation system, the solar sewage treatment plant… But in the US there is one category that never makes the list, and it is the most important one: ruins. Without much help from anyone, ruins can tell us of our history as a species.
Housing & urban design – Jan 25
My other car is a bright green city
Daniel Lerch on post carbon cities
Mayors climate protection summit
Peak oil – Jan 25
Shell chief fears oil shortage in seven years
The Gospel According to Matthew [Simmons]
Hagens, Savinar interview
PO talk in Minnesota
PO activist in Saturdays’s WSJ
Housing & urban design – Jan 22
Ecocity World Summit April 22-26 in San Francisco
Green architect receives Swiss honour
Desert state channels oil wealth into world’s first sustainable city
Stocks fall, recession ahead?
WSJ: US warning signs point toward a deep recession
Stocks plummet in Germany, Hong Kong, India, Brazil
London shares in biggest fall since 9/11
Stocks plunge worldwide on fears of a US recession
Jerome a Paris: The next domino
Kunstler: Fullblown panic
Housing & urban design – Jan 17
Building green
Retrofitting your house for sustainability
Kunstler on the human habitat
Kunstler on America – Jan 15
Kunstler: Disarray – The US economy has entered a black hole
“Kunslter was right” files: Heating costs the IED of suburbia
Empty houses home to crime as loans fail
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 15
Slow Money Revolution: the global growth of local currencies
Grow your own way: How to join the allotment in-crowd
Toward a post-oil community
Ted Trainer and Rob Hopkins interview continued
Peak Moment: What Can One Person Do?
Dysfunction – Jan 9
£1,290 car delights Indians, horrifies greens
Thieves target catalytic converters
Are the suburbs a health hazard?
Petrochemicals in beauty aids
Junk mail box
