Transport – Feb 9
Swiss boat claims first solar Atlantic crossing
A rush-hour tax on urban drivers
EU plans carbon dioxide emissions limits
Transportation
Housing & urban design – Feb 7
The ubiquitous sprawls of America
Exurbs hardest hit in recent housing slump
Scholars to consider the shrinking of cities
Biofuels – Feb 6
US News & World Rpt: Is ethanol the answer?
Indonesia: Massive biofuel program to go ahead despite concerns
NYT: The price of corn
Kudzu a potential fuel source
Food industry wants balanced biofuel policy
Bus Week: Food vs fuel
Transport – Feb 6
For Teenagers, the Car Is the Danger Zone
Subdivisions in remote areas increase cost county services
China expands ship-rail transport
Why Don’t You Walk More?
The agenda restated
Quit wishing and start doing. The best way to feel hopeful about the future is to get off your ass and demonstrate to yourself that you are a capable, competent individual resolutely able to face new circumstances.
One of Kunstler’s best. -Ed
Transport – Feb 1
Boeing defends on 787 Dreamliner doubts
Sydney tunnel a $60m Super black hole
Toll Road Giant Buys Newspapers to Silence Critics
Transport – Jan 30
Parking hike for high polluters
Paris to roll out free bicycles
NYT: A faith-based fuel initiative
Dysfunction – Jan 29
Kunstler on Martha Stewart: housing fetish
NYC becoming “the city that never walks”?
Scotland: Energy crisis as power cuts loom
Selling off Aotearoa (New Zealand)
Transport – Jan 28
The electric wheel- breakthrough in car efficiency
The soul of a pedicab chauffeur
Get ready, tram haters: Locals want more
Portland’s classy new tram
10 vanishing wonders – fly to see them?
Food & agriculture – Jan 28
UK Soil Assn: Preparing for a post-peak oil food and farming future (Podcasts)
Soil Assn considers sanctions on air freight
Michael Pollard essay: “Unhappy Meals”
Biofuels and U.S. policy – Jan 26
Professor: Bush’s dangerous energy proposal
Krauthammer: a serious plan requires taxes, ANWR and nukes
Chicken industry issues warning
Feed costs rising: meat groups want study
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 26
Street legal mass transport Flintstones-style
How to be good (to yourself)
Unions see greenbacks in ‘green’ future
Real-time energy feedback technology
Daydreaming improves thinking
