Bicycles – Oct 9
Safe streets: Not pedaling can kill you
Evolution of a bicycle friendly community- Davis
Big cities try to ease way for bicyclists
Buildings
Solutions & sustainability – Oct 8
Science on a shoestring (tools for resource-poor countries)
Enviro-conscious apartment living
My journey to sustainability
Documentary: Awake, My Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp
Willits and the problem of slow knowledge
After three years, Willits, while still a clear leader in peak oil preparedness, has not achieved nearly the progress envisioned by Bradford and other organizers. While their sense of urgency still remains, they have begun to realize that municipal governments move at what seems like a glacial pace and that public awareness is not the same as public understanding.
Urban design – Oct 8
Taking life easy in urban Italy
Get cool with Smart Growth
Kunstler: The grass roots syndrome
Transport – Oct 8
Portland sees explosive growth in bicycling
Excerpt from new book: Energy efficiency — The future is now
Dingell, gas taxes, CAFE and diet – 3 data points
Food & agriculture – Oct 8
Gene Logsdon: Thoughts on economic “inevitability”
UN backs organic farming
How to fertilize urban good deserts
Cities – Oct 5
Gas tax in SF Bay Area?
Global warming requires local solutions
Congestion relief = climate relief?
Transport – Oct 3
S.F. catching up with European bike-share programs
Todd Litman: saving gas, lives & the environment
The moral dangers of adventure tourism
Transport – Oct 2
We paved paradise (parking lots)
Good and bad news on US fuel-economy trends
Hauliers threaten blockades as Brown’s 3 tax rises bring petrol to £1 a litre
Technology – Oct 2
Is Windows an energy hog?
A commodity no more: indium tin oxide for LCDs
The Economist on biomimicry
Housing & urban design – Oct 1
New era of tribal living has arrived
In heart of Texas, drumbeat for green (Austin)
To go green, live closer to work, report says
San Francisco takes action on climate change
Birth of EcoDensity backlash in Vancouver
Peak oil – Sept 28
Private industry conference finds much less oil
The end of Las Vegas: why alternative energy sources won’t save us
Kunstler:
America’s new religion
