Housing & urban design – March 9
Trouble at the mall
Kunstler: Retooling Suburbia
How the Crash Will Reshape America
Urban Design
New online report: Energy security in the residential sector
Our safety is at risk when governments fail to respond effectively to changing heat supplies and prices, according to Larry Hughes, the lead author of two new reports released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives in Nova Scotia.
Surviving two billion cars: China must lead the way
The number of vehicles worldwide is expected to reach two billion in the next two decades. Surprisingly, China – where the demand for cars has been skyrocketing – just may offer the best hope of creating a new, greener transportation model.
From waste to living space – March 1
Turning Shipping Containers Into Customizable, Affordable Housing
Junked cars morph into green manufactured houses
Review: Garbage Warrior
Dealing with the Coming Plague of Empty Superstores
Book review: Culture Change by Alexis Zeigler
With superb insight, wisdom and erudition—one is almost tempted to say omniscience—Alexis Zeigler’s Culture Change charts an ambitious course for the future of our civilization. The book calls for a revolution to bring about what Zeigler terms a “conscious culture” capable of responding intelligently to our ecological crisis. (Full book title: Culture Change: Civil Liberty, Peak Oil, and the End of Empire)
Economics – Feb 26
Depression in the East points the way for the rest of the world
As It Falters, Eastern Europe Raises Risks
Japan’s crisis deepens as world stops buying
Home Prices Post Biggest Drop in 21 Years
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Financial Times
United States & Canada – Feb 25
Bill Clinton on the Future of Energy
Legalizing cannabis: is the ground shifting?
U.S. Housing Starts Fell to Record Low in January
Housing & urban design – Feb 25
Sustainability interview: Peter Newman and Timothy Beatley
America’s Top 15 Emptiest Cities
In Maricopa, Ariz., a Paradise Found and Lost
Sonoma Mountain Village: Is Green Suburbia Possible?
United States – Feb 24
Friedman: Start Up the Risk-Takers
E.P.A. Expected to Regulate Carbon Dioxide
National Guard goes green to conserve energy, cost
White House Dismisses Mileage-Based Tax
First Lady at Agriculture Department
Addicted to booms & cheap energy – Feb 24
The Abyss Stares Back
Owners must be weaned off the house-price drug
Bears in the finance-media zoo
ODAC Newsletter – 20 Feb
A weekly round-up from a UK perspective.
Coping
Family of 5 weathers economy with 7 housemates
Can I Lose My Car Without Losing My Home?
Neighbors Helping Neighbors—to Break Into Vacant Houses
Treating the Blues Could Save the Planet
