Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Those living in the world’s new mega- and hypercities are going to have a far tougher time. Oil has built these monstrosities where 100s of millions will be trapped without direct access to food supplies and cooking fuel. Someday, the historians will note that the collapse of many megacities was among the first real tragedies of peak oil.
Soaring fuel costs whittle away at Asia’s cheap-labour advantage
Fuel takes a withering toll on truckers
Bad news for Detroit: Miles per gallon
Auto industry feels the pain of tight credit
McMansions no more
Ceilings come down to earth
Barcelona as sustainable city model
Cars are driving us nuts (interview with traffic scientist Hermann Knoflacher)
Jan Lundberg: Fix the cities? Maybe not
Reinventing Collapse by Dmitry Orlov released
Panel Discussion: James Howard Kunstler and Nikos Salingaros
How the government could pay us to stay home and garden
Carolyn Baker: Rapid unraveling and the decline of adolescent America
Mike Splinter: renewable energy is the solution
Green cement
Microgen in the UK
The suburb-eating robot
Intent shapes environment, environment shapes life
Pedicabs a hit in Bellingham
Rob Hopkins on permaculture (interview)
Dmitry Orlov details the Collapse Party platform
Paul Krugman: Stranded in suburbia
Jamais Cascio: The suburban question
The American car culture is running out of gas
Don’t buy that new Prius! Test-drive a used car instead
Study: Global warming not worsening hurricanes
Real Climate: Don’t take false comfort
Zones of death are spreading in oceans
Businesses in crisis from Murray drought
Animated map brings climate crisis to life
Climate booklet from National Academies online
As founder of the earthen building movement in Thailand, Jo Jandai has contributed much to the concept of living sustainably. … We later stopped at a mountain community that had formed in the wake of a ten-year protest. I had been intrigued by this band of villagers that had set up camp on the lawn of the elegant parliament building in Bangkok. The villagers had lost their homes due to a large dam project (funded by the World Bank) flooding their land.
Heinberg: Saying goodbye to air travel
Peak-oil spike reshapes the suburbs
Bicycles pedaling into the spotlight
Calculating commuting costs on Vancouver Island
Ready For anything (but reality)
Juneau cuts electricity use 30% in weeks
School not always greener (but it could be)
Sustainability for competitive advantage
If your appliances are avocado, they probably aren’t green
