Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
For bicyclists, a widening patchwork world
IATA: Airlines forecast to buckle under £5.2bn of losses
An Inside look at the Boeing plant at Everett
UK car sales stall to lowest level since 1966
Driven: Shai Agassi’s audacious plan to put electric cars on the road
NY City: On the street – clear sailing(slideshow with audio)
Traffic stoppers: cities closing streets to cars
No traffic on a Saturday? Well, no cars, anyway
Brick making in the Western world is scientific—you test the soil, establish a recipe, take notes and generally control everything, but Jo preferred the easy Thai way. He just looked at how the ground cracked where it had been soaked. He picked up a handful and squeezed it in his hand and played with it. If it’s sticky it’s good, he told us.
California moves on bill to curb sprawl and emissions
Publish your green urban life, win $100
Live architecture: Grow your own home
The man who saw the future: Paolo Soleri and Arcosanti
Cultivating a suburban foodshed (audio and video)
Talking directly, and kindly, to believers in the eco life – (profile of “Ask Umbra”)
Little Farm in the City(text and video)
Walkable Seattle
NYC’s Summer Streets a success!
Tyranny of distance fuels rising grocery prices in Australia
Choking suburbs to stop global warming
Americans think worst of 2008 oil spike over: poll
In California’s Central Valley, the ruins of the housing bust
NYT:
US and global economies slipping in unison
Oil and gas playing dumb and numbers
Toronto’s mysterious bicycle thief
New Republic: The end of aviation
Drivers to pay for oil shock in NZ
The age of the train returns to French provinces
Suddenly, sharing a ride looks good
Trading Places – The demographic inversion of the American city
San Francisco ponders: Could bike lanes cause pollution?
Transition initiatives in North America
What is the future of suburbia? A freakonomics quorum
Watch where you’re walking (audio, slideshow)
Kunstler: Anti-Urban Bias (audio)
Downtowns across the U.S. see streetcars in their future
Think flying stinks? It may get worse
Green fuel for the airline industry?
France’s August traffic jam
Australia: Rising costs fuel economic stress
What our cities could be
Smart Growth: The good news about high gas prices
They took away all the cars in NYC – Summer Streets 2008
Atrios: Rules for urban design
