Solutions & Sustainability – July 22
MIT’s guru of low-tech engineering fixes the world on $2 a day
7 rules of design From MIT’s guru of low-tech engineering
Short week for state workers proposed
As gas prices rise, police turn to foot patrols
Transportation
Trash – July 21
Dumpster diving with the freegans: Why pay for food?
City to get 50 MW power from garbage
Rubbish idea that could make driving cheaper
Urban design – July 20
Bike, meet the City. City, this is the Bike
Toward walkability – and happiness
Kunstler on Saratoga Springs; handicap access; personal transit & green buildings
The unraveling of the suburban fringe
ODAC Newsletter – July 18
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
Renewables – July 17
£110M plan to turn human and cow waste into electricity
Footpaths to generate electricity
BART paying more in bet on solar power
Demand bifurcation point
The future of the global economy will, in my opinion, turn more on this question than any other: Will demand destruction hit India and China, or will their oil consumption continue to rise? The answer here will determine much of how peak oil plays out.
Prices & supplies – July 15
‘The best thing that could happen to the country is if no oil is found’
Côte d’Ivoire: City on Go-Slow as Residents Protest Sudden Fuel Price Rise
Japan’s fishermen: ‘We’re dying’
Transport – July 15
Rural airlines take flight
Personal Rapid Transit: preempting the need for oil in urban transport
Namibia: Multitudes switch to bicycles
Bike shelters to be built at 4 CTA train stations
United Kingdom – July 13
Brown blunders in pledge to secure Nigeria oil
Climate campaigners threaten to invade and shut down power plant
Britons spurning foreign holidays as economy dips
Flying – July 12
UK airport expansion: end of the runway
Das Ende des Billigfliegens
The man in charge of cutting American Airlines’ fuel bill
Four wheels – July 12
Hummer, how we need thee
The joy of $8 gas
Futility vehicle
Alabama official suggests county vehicles limit speed to 45 mph
High cost of driving ignites online classes boom
ODAC Newsletter – July 11
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
