Solutions & sustainability – Mar 30
Toll for driving in downtown San Francisco? /
The Meatrix II /
Delaware Valley officially plans for post-peak /
The American Prospect special issue on “Green economy: after oil”
Buildings
Environment – Mar 30
Gordon Brown and the carbon cop-out /
Wired interviews Elizabeth Kolbert /
Books, films and a slick ad campaign make global warming the topic du jour /
Was confusion over global warming a con job? /
In the world’s slums, the worst of poverty and environmental degradation collide
Solutions & sustainability – Mar 28
Michael Pollan: The modern hunter-gatherer /
California makes itself the most efficient place in North America /
Home builders turning green /
Farm goes for economic, ecological diversity /
US, African scientists seek biotech answer to hunger (sorghum)
Top 10 US cities best prepared for an oil crisis
If the price of oil shot to $100 a barrel tomorrow, which American cities would be able to survive economically?
At home in Ecocity: tear up parking lots, uncover creeks
To hear urban visionary Richard Register tell it, the city of the future will look more like the Hanging Gardens of Babylon than like the crime-ridden, blighted expanse often referred to as the inner-city.
Environment – Mar 17
Northern ozone pollution spurs Arctic warming: NASA /
Evidence of the warming West is everywhere /
States calculate global warming pricetag /
Mike Davis: “Planet of Slums” /
Ice retreats in Arctic for 2nd year; will it vanish? /
Elizabeth’s Kolbert’s book on climate change /
Will climate change worsen infectious diseases? /
CU-Boulder’s Roger Pielke on the rising cost of natural disasters
Superbia! (book review)
How humans are able to adjust the setup of the suburbs to meet their basic needs in times of trouble will fall to those in need. Necessity is the mother of invention, or reinvention as it were.
Environment – Mar 15
Burst oil pipeline causes ‘catastrophe’ in Alaska /
UK: New suburbia is an environmental cul-de-sac /
U.S. about to become net food importer /
Is America facing yet another dust bowl? /
Climate change ‘irreversible’ as Arctic sea ice fails to re-form /
Even Bush’s business allies have seen the light on global warming, but he’s dug in /
UN report: 2004 set record for carbon dioxide
Solutions & sustainability – Mar 15
“Living on the edge”, the balcony garden designers guild /
Landscape architects and global warming /
Getting cars out of the city center /
More news outlets, fewer stories (blogs an answer?) /
Why isn’t there more new urbanism?
Planning for the future of farming
California farmland faces threats from development at the same time food security is threatened by global energy descent.
Solutions & sustainability – Mar 2
The revolution in building materials /
Making our cities fuel-efficient /
Wind, wave, wood: energy-independent Humboldt Country /
Sustainable town of Willits to star in sequel to “End of Suburbia”
“The Unplugged” – a speculative fiction
If you are willing to live as an Unplugger does, your cost to buy out is only around three months of wages for a factory worker, the price of a used car. You never need to “work” again, although there are plenty of life support activities to keep you busy, and a lot of basic research and science to do. Unplugging is not an off-the-shelf solution, it’s a research career!
