Our cities, our future – Nov 21
Kunstler: Formerly normal
Walking towns: universities, military bases & pre-auto
European-style bike-sharing programs head to US
Middle class angst: the politics of lemmings
Buildings
Two can live as cheaply – Nov 21
Can shrunken families be reflated?
Sharon Astyk: Getting more butts in your house
Preparing transportation for oil depletion
Some 95% of motorized travel and freight movement by land, sea, and air is fuelled by oil products, accounting worldwide for consumption of some 60% of crude oil. …Our assessment of numerous alternatives to oil as a transport fuel concludes that, as oil depletion progresses, only electricity could reasonably power acceptable levels of land transportation.
Recession – Nov 18
Consensus shifts towards the hard landing view
The Observer: Is it time to panic?
Credit crunch: it ain’t over yet
Cities – Nov 18
Cars out as London mayor clears way for Paris-style plage and cycle boulevards
City’s slicker: density means less impact
Peak oil – Nov 17
Lester Brown: Ringing alarm of peak oil
Kharecha and Hansen: Implications of “peak oil” for atmospheric CO2 and climate
Energy crisis is on horizon -Mattthew Simmons
Kunstler in Bakersfield
Come gather round cities – Nov 14
UK’s towns on ‘the road to enlightenment’
Chicago takes a shine to Portland
Wales: How green is my valley?
Post-carbon cities and the future of growth
Peak oil – Nov 13
Preparing for Peak Oil– a new report from ODAC
Turkish Weekly: Global peak oil and dollar
Have global stock markets peaked on peak oil?
Spiked reviews A Crude Awakening
Energy decline and national GDP in 2050: the growth of destitution
ODAC News
Urban design – Nov 11
Telegraph: Property values up in sustainable Totnes
Portland unveils carbon tax plan
The real ‘PPP’: Populism, probity and peak-oil in the River City’s tunnel deal
South African cities need to change lanes as oil runs dry
Most of South Africa’s cities experienced their growth during the course of the 20th century. In large part, our cities were structured through the lens of segregation and apartheid. The evolution of our cities is also intimately bound up with the prevalence of abundant cheap oil.
It’s a car’s world – Nov 9
Blaming the cyclist in Portland
Athens – asserting the right to walk in an auto-cracy
Auto workers, dealers break from industry over CAFE
Transport – Nov 8
Portland: Cultivating a culture of two wheels
All about: Planes (and climate)
Zip along with shared cars, bikes
