Peak oil – May 2
Lawmaker to Minn. governor: What happens at the end of oil?
Mass. Governor: We’re “at the end of the age of fossil fuels”
Ottawa Citizen: Peak oil won’t wait for city planners
Heinberg and Van Jones: The future of energy
Urban Design
Food – May 2
An unlikely way to save a species: serve it for dinner
No easy access to fresh groceries in many parts of Seattle
Urban design – Apr 30
Highlights from the 7th EcoCity World Summit
CNN covers Transition towns
New book: Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change
Air travel – Apr 29
Fuel costs could end cheap flight era
Don’t plan development around air transport
Australia’s post-Peak Air Force ?
Housing & transportation – Apr 28
Gas prices box in an Alabama community
Housing bubble popped by spike in fuel costs
Mow is less (lawns)
Transport – Apr 27
Diamond lanes for the rich
Goodbye SUV, hello small cars
Don’t ask me to give up flying
Urban design – Apr 27
Greening of America: ambitious tree-planting programs are sprouting up
Mass-produced sustainable living in China?
Kunstler:
Picturing suburbia
Peak oil – Apr 25
Simmons: Has Twilight In The Desert begun?
Peak oil interview with Prof Peter Newman
James Kunstler in Business Week
Le Québec pourrait manquer de pétrole dès 2030
PO is real, it’s time economists faced up
Transport – Apr 24
Group touts telecommuting’s green benefits
Not guzzling quite so much gas
Housing – Apr 22
Home prices drop most in areas with long commute
Kunstler on urban planning
Children of the ‘burbs
Solutions & sustainability – Apr 22
Green issue of NY Times Magazine
Cuban permaculturalist visits Australia
Seattle’s Local Food Action Initiative a cure for society’s ills?
Life (mostly) off the grid
Ontario set to veto ban on clotheslines
We regret to inform you…
When climate change and peak oil thinkers run out of other things to worry about, there’s always the endless, inevitable debates about whether we are facing a “fast crash” or a “slow grind.” When no one was looking, we got an answer. Fast crash wins. And we’re in it now.
