Transport – Feb 27
Smogville could become a velotopia (L.A. had a cycleway in 1900)
Oil changes every 3,000 miles: not for everyone
Airlines plummet on oil
Transport after petroleum (cartoon)
Urban Design
Housing & urban design – Feb 25
Earthships and the Garbage Warrior
Radiant City: Canadian documentary on sprawl
Government seeks UK’s first ‘cycling city’
Oil Independent Oakland report is released
Inspired by Sweden’s landmark national action plan that articulates programs and policy measures expected to reduce Sweden’s oil consumption by 40-50% by 2020, Oakland (Calif.) hopes to provide a similar model for cities in the U.S. which are facing an absence of state and federal leadership on sustainable energy policy.
Housing & urban design – Feb 20
£25 congestion charge will hit 30,000 of worst polluting vehicles, says London mayor
KunstlerCast: Drugstores
L.A. to enact tighter green building standards
Passive survivability – buildings remain livable when electricity, fuel or water are unavailable
Renewables – Feb 18
Britain is third worst in EU for use of renewable energy
Greenpeace: All about EfficienCity
Eliminating fossil fuels is friggin’ cheap
Walking: new source of energy
The lure of the city
The history of the 19th and 20th centuries could fairly be characterized as the history of urbanization. Will the history of the 21st century be more of the same?
World first: U.S. city fights climate change and global oil depletion together
Spokane Mayor Mary Verner announced a new strategic planning effort to identify and address the impacts of climate change and energy security,
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 13
Does peak oil “make ordinary politics irrelevant”?
Monastery throws switch on green initiatives
Generation Green taking on parents to help them save the planet
How former miners transformed a pit into an energy village
Eco-villages prove to be sustainable
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 12
10 ways recession can help the environment
Re-Energize Texas summit – if Texas can do it…
The one-tonne-carbon lifestyle
Making conventions environmentally friendly
Don’t let the green grass fool you (Suburbanites awake)
Dave Cohen’s suburban savanna
There may be an instinctual basis for our love of suburbia, one that may be hard to break through even as the cheap oil which has made suburbia possible disappears.
Urban design – Feb 8
How global forces are affecting cities
UK’s rules for front gardens to fight floods
In many communities, it’s not easy going green
Transport & urban design – Feb 7
What communities need to do to survive climate change
Managing traffic in the urban age
Time running out to fix Australia’s transport
Walkable cities
