Cities – Jan 2
Edinburgh city initiative on ‘peak oil’
TIME: How green is your neighborhood?
Cities and energy consumption
Buildings
Housing & urban design – Dec 19
Urban renewal: Now you’re walking
A cutting-edge architect’s eco-friendly home
Europe’s cities take the lead on cutting emissions
Cities rise to climate challenge
Economics – Dec 18
Kunstler: Failure beyond finance
Krugman: After the money’s gone
Consensus is moving towards how severe the hard landing (recession) will be
Peak oil and portfolio prudence
Congressional report: Rich are getting richer faster, much faster
WTO director: “Capitalism cannot satisfy us”
Transport – Dec 13
Open a new highway – on the sea
Putting the brakes on drive-thrus
Sell your car, stay sane (car-sharing)
How big is your bicycle?
Housing & urban design – Dec 4
Stay married – divorce is bad for environment
Five-tree fee for a Java wedding
Senior transportation a growing concern
Civic agriculture = sane housing
Economics – Dec 2
Economics in Transition (alternative currencies)
Price tag in mortgage crisis is looking like real money
Review of Squeezed: Diary Of The Onset Of The Greater Depression
Housing & urban design – Dec 2
Kunstler interview; the geography of nowhere
People-Centered developments for reduced-energy living
Building equity into green homes
Middle class angst: The politics of lemmings
The deepest fear in suburbia, never spoken aloud, is that when this epoch unravels, Suburbia’s citizens quite simply will not know how to survive… The real choice that Suburbia will face is one between fascism or self-sufficiency, which is a choice – as well – between spiritual death or spiritual renewal.
Transport – Nov 29
Are you driving yourself crazy?
A local approach to easing gridlock
An alternative to cars? Official laughs out loud
Housing and urban – Nov 27
Bold new “eco-city” in China?
Rumbling across India to a new life in the city
In miles of alleys, Chicago finds its environmental frontier
Can LEED survive the carbon-neutral era?
Leaps of faith drive ever-expanding ‘burbs
UK: nuclear, airport and homes – Nov 27
Brown to endorse new generation of nuclear power and Heathrow airport expansion
A dogma that has had its day
New terminal planned for Heathrow
Brown: Britain’s prosperity depends on airport expansion
George Monbiot for building 3 million homes
Adaptive responses to peak oil
Many of the proposals made so far to deal with the crisis of industrial society have centered on massive programs with huge price tags and few options in case of failure. A look at more flexible approaches may be in order.
