Transport – Oct 8
This green subsidy for car makers is just a disguised corporate bail-out
Saving gas, beyond the car
Carrying Copenhagen: the wonders of the cargo bike
Transportation
Transport – Oct 6
How Can We Cut Our Energy Use for Commuting?
How Low-Carbon Can You Go: The Transportation Ranking
As international airfares soar, Americans stay in USA
ODAC Newsletter – Oct 3
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective
How to create change In your community: finding or forming a local group
When we live locally and strengthen our communities, we become stronger and better able to adapt to changes in the economy, climate, and energy availability. But we discuss much about how to go about this. So… how do you create change in your community? And how do you form a group of people who can tackle these community needs?
Transport – Oct 2
Interview with Linda Niemann, Author of Boomer, Railroad Memoirs
Bush Approves Automaker Loan Program: But Will It Arrive in Time?U.S. auto sales plunge
Transport – Sept 29
Vancouver’s long commuters face problems of peak oil
The Jet Set
High flyers: Civilians fly fighter jets. (video)
New World Order
United Kingdom – Sept 24
Mayor wants to close Heathrow
British public ‘unwilling’ to pay for climate change bill
It needn’t cost the earth
Housing & urban design – Sept 24
The Conversation: How do we become less dependent?
Low-Income Housing: Another Crisis Looming?
Mitchell Joachim: Redesign Cities From Scratch
Transport – Sept 19
Greening the dream that drives America
Why the gasoline engine isn’t going away any time soon
All-electric vehicles no magic bullet: scientist
Creativity helps Rochester’s transit system turn a profit
How to reduce global fuel consumption by 75 percent
The car is dying; it’s the age of the bike
America’s Achilles Heel: A Tale of Two Gulfs
Americans may have a vulnerable Achilles heel made up of two gulfs: the Gulf of Mexico and the Persian Gulf .
This paper will look at how hurricane activity in the Gulf of Mexico, and a selection of other world events in the Persian Gulf, could turn off the oil spigot and bring the USA to a critical standstill, highlighting the urgency for the development of a different civilization, free of addiction to massive doses of oil.
Energy issues – Sept 18
WSJ special section on energy
Physicists: U.S. could cut oil use with better houses, cars
Physicists to unveil major energy efficiency plan(video)
Physicists: Energy efficiency crucial
Eliminating wasted energy from automobiles, homes and businesses is equivalent to tapping a hidden energy reserve that will help the United States improve its energy security and reduce global warming, an American Physical Society (APS) study panel concluded in a major report released today.
