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”
Urban Design
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
Hard times – June 18
Is America’s suburban dream collapsing into a nightmare?
Renters wary of new smart-meters
Real human casualties of the mortgage massacre
A sign of the times in Bankruptsville, USA (Vallejo, Calif)
Oil prices fuel fury from the pulpit
United States – June 17
McCain calls for more offshore oil drilling
More drilling won’t help
U.S. cities for the 21st century
Brookings: Rethinking American Transportation for the 21st Century
Transport – June 16
Bill McKibben: Free public transit for all
When is a bike not a bike? When it’s electric
The threat to the car
Community – June 16
Sandpoint becomes 2nd Transition Town in U.S.
Portland: Step program for gasoholics (Peak Oil taskforce no longer’apocalyptic’)
To hell with debate, what can the simple folk do?
38 pounds lighter, all from recycling
Community Guide to Environmental Health: comprehensive book, downloadable from Hesperian
Coping with the peak – June 5
Pittsburgh: When the oil runs out
Mark Morford:
Stay home, read, have sex
Robert Reich: We need public transportation but can’t get it
Black Commentator: Taking the train to a clean environment, a sustainable economy & jobs
Housing & urban design – June 3
Yuba homebuyers face mounting commuting costs – suburban equivalents of ghost towns?
Second Great Depression in Detroit – time for a revival? (houses for $5000)
Rural Canada:
Guzzling up their way of life
Housing & urban design – June 1
Wenchuan as eco-city
Contractors kept busy maintaining abandoned homes
“Sorry, Out of Gas 1973” – Architecture’s response to the energy crisis
Germany looks to boost biking
Car culture on the decline – June 1
Driving’s dim future (funny/sad)
The era of fast cars is over
Gridlock led 27 pct of drivers to abandon trips
Overcoming car culture like ‘waiting for Godot’
Peak oil – June 1
Kenneth Deffeyes: Oil production, oil price
TOD: Peak oil media
Kunstler on reactivating small cities, Peak Oil New Zealand
Tennessee: So long to cheap oil
Report on Michigan peak oil conference
