United Kingdom – June 30
Government embracing alternatives?
Rising bills will pay for low-carbon economy
Britain goes slow as trains, planes and ships cut fuel costs
Transportation
Smell the roses – suicidal tendencies
Why does it seem that every time the price of gas goes up, motorists respond by driving faster? Is it some misguided belief that if they reach their destination quicker, they will use less gas?
Housing & urban design – June 28
Fuel prices shift math for life in far suburbs
Four years of gains in home prices wiped out
Burtynsky’s Manufactured Landscapes is as good as they say
Living life in a travel trailer
Prices & supplies – June 27
Oil surges above $140 to record as Libya warns of output cut
$7-a-gallon gas, 10-million fewer cars: Rubin (CIBC)
700 militants arrested this year, Saudis say – suspicion of planning oil attacks
Transport – June 27
Future of air travel – part 2
Private jets targeted as symbols of inequality
Brunswick to shut boat plants, cut jobs
Kurt Cobb: Move people, not metal
Hydrogen fuel cell technology, and hydrogen car kits
Transport – June 26
The Autobahn’s future and one-liter class racing
Summer is here, leave your car at home (discovering bicycling)
Garrison Keillor: Eulogy for the Winnebago
Housing & urban design – June 23
Daniel Lerch: PO challenges for local governments
How NYC’s congestion pricing plan crashed
Speech by Philadelphia Mayor Nutter inspires city planners
Kunstler on NPR
United Kingdom – June 20
The Tory leader – maybe he really is green
Prince’s aide attacks Labour over transport
Green activists occupy land set aside for opencast coal mine
Housing & urban design – June 20
Gas prices latest worry for L.A. real estate market
Sydney homes stuck on road to nowhere
The cost of free parking
Transport – June 20
Australia: Farmers swap trucks for horses
Walking: still better than driving
CERA: Americans finally react to sting of gas prices
Airline lobby starts its own “Energy Bulletin”
Housing & urban design – June 18
The nexus of peak oil, climate change and infrastructure
Kunstler: Pavement
For mass transit, mass investment
In the future we will live in gas stations
Real-estate projects boom near light rail
$4 gallon of gas will change U.S. way of life
Transport – June 18
Cardboard bike unveiled
Air Canada cutting 2,000 jobs, trimming capacity
Cargo ships told to go green by slowing down
The future of air travel
Gaza ‘genius’ helps besieged city
