Is there life after oil?
James Howard Kunstler is America’s version of an Old Testament prophet, a stinging social critic who warns of dark days ahead if we do not change the way we live. (Interview)
Urban Design
Transport – Apr 15
Homer-Dixon: future of travel and conferences
Oil, environment, lifestyle fuel Asia’s two-wheeler boom
Kunstler on Flagstaff and hydrogen cars
Housing & urban design – Apr 15
An Atlas of Radical Cartography
The incredible shrinking city: Youngstown, Ohio
Creating sustainable cities
Transport – Apr 13
UK road haulage: Crushed on the road to oil armageddon
The new age of the train
Grounded aircraft to be converted into trains
When cheap housing isn’t: how transportation changes the equation
Housing & urban design – Apr 11
Scrapping skyscrapers
Exhibit recalls architecture’s response to the 1973 oil crisis
Low-carbon living takes off in the US – cohousing
Kunstler and Homer-Dixon
Housing & urban design – Apr 9
Ecocity World Summit: April 22-26 in San Francisco
Dubai’s Masdar City – preparing for PO?
Kunstler: The glossary of nowhere
Foreclosures come to McMansion country
Housing & urban design – Apr 4
UK’s Ecotowns – why the protests?
Energy and climate initiatives in Santa Barbara
Green architecture and urbanism – new report
Heinberg: Resilient communities – paths for powering down:
Now that he’d warmed us up with a talk on ‘Peak Everything,’ Richard Heinberg said he’d come back to try out some new ideas he’d working with over the past few weeks. “It’s all a big unknown,” he admitted, but had decided we were the kind of audience that could handle the unknown. Where are we? Where are we going?
Housing & urban design – Apr 3
NYC approves fees on city drivers
Life in the ‘burbs: heavy costs for families, climate
Eco-towns? Britons say no thanks
Walkable towns curb obesity, pollution
Heinberg on ‘resilient communities: paths for powering down’
The first public airing by Richard Heinberg of a new concept he has been developing: a Resilient Communities Action Plan.
United States – March 31
WSJ: Ten days that changed capitalism
Dollar chilled by rise of euro
Suburban sprawl, by the numbers
‘They’re going to have to give properties away’
Silent insect killer ravages West: pine beetles and global warming
Transport – Mar 30
$1,200 a month fuels long commutes
Stuck in our cars on the highway to hell
Airlines lighten up to cut fuel costs
