Housing & urban design – March 16
Urban areas see revival in housing construction
Outside buyers drawn to Detroit’s foreclosed homes
Small, Green And Good
Urban areas see revival in housing construction
Outside buyers drawn to Detroit’s foreclosed homes
Small, Green And Good
A weekly review from a UK perspective.
Recession has taken toll on alternative energy
Canals and rivers to lead micro-hydropower revolution
Locavolts or Super Grids? Where to Source Clean Energy?
Warnings Grow Louder About Global Data Center Power Crisis
Our preferred food source is our own land. We know what goes into, and what comes out of, our little garden plot, and we know how it is handled, processed and stored. We now how to locate and identify wild edible plants – greens, mushrooms, nuts, berries and other fruit.
Former CIA director Woolsey makes the case for a feed-in tariff
Solar power from deserts
Charmaine Watts at REFIT-NZ talks about the New Zealand FIT campaign
US ethanol producers urge Obama to up ethanol content of motor fuels
Monbiot: Biofuels do far more harm than good
International Biochar Initiative online
Both increasing unemployment and declining stock values indicate that we are entering an economic depression similar to the Great Depression. Although it is difficult to determine how much of this economic depression is caused by Peak Oil impacts and how much stems from mismanagement of the economy as well as from business and government corruption, Peak Oil plays a major role.
Weekly round up from a UK perspective.
Learning Gardening and Energy Saving, Through Coaching and Competition
Mike Antheil at FARE updates the Florida Renewable Energy Dividend (RED) story
Food Deserts and Delivery: Discussions from the Pacific Northwest
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
– Production and prices
– Obama’s budget
– Briefs
Black is the new green (Financial Times on biochar)
Australian opposition embraces biochar
Sierra Club & Worldwatch: Time to Get “Smart” on Biofuels
Review of “Fuel”
With superb insight, wisdom and erudition—one is almost tempted to say omniscience—Alexis Zeigler’s Culture Change charts an ambitious course for the future of our civilization. The book calls for a revolution to bring about what Zeigler terms a “conscious culture” capable of responding intelligently to our ecological crisis. (Full book title: Culture Change: Civil Liberty, Peak Oil, and the End of Empire)