Transport – Sept 27
A busy NYC street makes room for bikes
Dutch government takes a stand- against cars, for bikes
Fifteen years of Critical Mass
Folds-mobile
Taking transit: the most effective route to cutting carbon
Buildings
Transport – Sept 20
American commutes get longer
Investment in cycling could save £520m
‘Ban cars in London’ to cut CO2
China to hold first-ever ‘no car day’
China steel mills may face freight premium
Zimbabwe: Minister says walk to save fuel
Housing & urban design – Sept 20
Post Carbon Cities- planning for energy and climate uncertainty
New York City turning to biodiesel for heat
Green roofs sprouting new adherents
California regulators propose developing energy self-sufficiency by 2020
Zoning the ‘enemy’ of affordable homes
Radical new approach to affordable housing
Parking drives up housing costs
Transport – Sept 16
Would you pay to avoid gridlock?
Toll on, Columbia!
Some motorists may be too big for their cars
Bike sharing in Barcelona
Housing & urban design – Sept 16
Live the good life in a green mansion
Overweight? Blame your ZIP code
Japan: Overcrowded from cradle to grave
Exploring options, spotlight on “Earthwise”
Interview with Lisa McCrory and Carl Russell in rural Vermont who teach a variety of skills for sustainable living, including the use of draft animals in raising organic crops.
Parking spaces outnumber drivers 3-to-1, drive pollution and warming
Purdue researcher Bryan Pijanowski says vast expanses of parking lots help raise urban temperatures and add to water pollution. Parking lots in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, take up more space than 1,000 football fields.
Transport – Sept 12
As commutes begin earlier, new daily routines emerge
Fear and loathing at the airport
Gas costs spark high-speed rail Interest
Housing & urban design – Sept 11
Developing a hotter L.A.
Exercisers stuck in unwalkable settings
America’s McMansion problem
Solutions & sustainability – Sept 11
MIT discovers appropriate technology
Knitting for the Apocalypse
Free-lunch foragers
Green Acres (TIME discovers eco-villages)
Think longevity
Finding hope in permaculture
There is hope to be found, but it’s not hope that lets us “Pass Go and Collect $200” (i.e., a hope for a comfortable, stress-free life). Rather, it’s a hope for a new life in which we are the architects of our own survival.
Solutions & sustainability – Sept 6
Place matters (the joy of walkability)
Transition Town Maidenhead in the news
To teens in the first decade of the 21st century
Restoring native landscapes – from a dump to a park (+ jatropha)
