Activists do it locally – Mar 30
Denmark embraces a clean green dream
Vermont takes a baby step
Portland (Maine) – roadmap to sustainability
Urban Design
Urban design – Mar 26
Transition Towns movement hits “The Archers”, UK cultural intitution
Urban jungle: growing fruit and vegetables in UK town-centres
China’s green building movement
Kunstler on zoning and “starchitects”
Housing & urban design – Mar 23
Freiburg – greenest city in the world?
Radiohead’s
Thom Yorke questions Mayor of London about his radical eco vision
Kunstler on parking garages
Urban design – Mar 20
Green? Dense? Walkable?
Respect for the human scale (Polycarpou interviews Kunstler and Salingaros)
Suburban sprawl pollutes Hungary
Taking steps – Mar 17
Clotheslines rule
Industry scrambles to find a ‘greener’ concrete
Open 28 hours
Sanitation goals slip; nature can help
Housing & urban design – Mar 13
The next slum and the new green city
California needs more urban density
Cities on the edge of chaos
SUVs without wheels
Transport – Mar 11
Working on the railroad – personnel shortage
No brakes, no gears: the latest bike craze
Mass transit use hits 50-year high
It’s not just fossil fuels (auto addiction)
Highway of diamonds
A line from a Bob Dylan song has increasingly struck me as a perfect symbol for the choices we now face in dealing with climate change, peak oil and population: “I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it.”
We need to get it right. No one will thank us for a highway of diamonds with nobody on it.
Transport & urban design – Mar 8
EcoDensity’s unofficial champion
UK cyclists face a rough ride
Relative comfort – living as an extended family
‘Big shift’ to rail urged for UK
Weird unofficial Toyota ads
Traffic congestion charge has modest impact on the life expectancy of Londoners
Scheme has led to 1,888 extra years of life for Londoners
Peak oil – Mar 4
IEA’s Fatih Birol: We can’t cling to crude
Ken Livingstone – Peak oil “opportunity” for London Mayor
Nansen G. Saleri: The world has plenty of oil
Fears of a commodity crash grow (oil too?)
Bread and oil: rising food prices and the Middle East
Review: The Transition Handbook
The publication of the much anticipated Transition Handbook marks the latest landmark in what has become the fastest growing environmental movement since CND in the 1960s: the phenomenon that is sweeping the UK, the Transition Towns movement.
