Park your car and walk to store, school, work
A new comprehensive study by Saint Louis University researchers that flags the top 10 features of activity-friendly communities is a blueprint for improving public health.
Transportation
Urban design – Nov 5
Our ailing communities: car-dependent suburbia is bad for your health /
Where will everybody live? /
Kunstler: Gawn south
N. America energy policy – Nov 5
Clinton stumps for Calif. prop. 87 /
American car buyers get a case of amnesia /
Canadian clips on global warming and energy
Biofuels – Nov 1
Biocrude? Algae-to-oil project /
‘WTO must set rules for biofuel trade’ /
Ethanol could corrode pumps, testers say /
Turning forest slash into cash /
Europe set for biodiesel boom -Goldman Sachs
Solutions & sustainability – Nov 1
WorldChanging owners’ manual for planet Earth /
David Korten and the End of “Business As Usual” /
BBC: The fall and rise of the bicycle
Climate policy – Oct 31
“The Great Warming” – movie review /
Climate research center’s oversight up for bidding /
California: Schwarzenegger, Angelides both profess to lean green /
Scientists, American public disagree sharply over global warming /
New culprit in climate change? Try airlines
Drastic action on climate change is needed now – and here’s the plan
It is a testament to the power of money that Nicholas Stern’s report should have swung the argument for drastic action, even before anyone has finished reading it. He appears to have demonstrated what many of us suspected: that it would cost much less to prevent runaway climate change than to seek to live with it.
Climate – Oct 29
Climate change: 5 ways to make a difference /
Panel on climate coverage /
Africa ‘faces catastrophe’ unless West acts on climate change
Impressions of ASPO-USA
Impressions of the ASPO-USA conference held this week at Boston University.
Raise the gas tax
With the midterm election around the corner, here’s a wacky idea you won’t often hear from our elected leaders: We should raise the tax on gasoline. Not quickly, but substantially.
(The author is professor of economics at Harvard.)
Solutions & sustainability – Oct 27
Environmentalist Suzuki to quit spotlight for simple life /
Coping with climate dread /
Solving Iraq problems with permaculture? /
Sail Transport Network /
CSIRO Sustainability Network Newsletter
Biofuels – Oct 26
Cellulosic ethanol vs. biomass gasification /
Beyond corn: ethanol’s next generation /
Biofuel subsidies cost U.S. billions /
When kitchen waste isn’t wasted
