Transport – Feb 5
Next car debate: total miles driven
Ex-Shell chair: EU ‘should ban inefficient cars’
Danger in the bike lane
Urban Design
Peak oil – Feb 2
In depth report on San Francisco Peak Oil Preparedness Task Force
Energy Roundtable: Simmons, Hirsch, Rubin
Understanding the current energy crisis in South Africa
Housing & urban design – Feb 2
Dmitry Orlov on living aboard a boat
Porous streets work – even in rainy Oregon
12 things that shaped green building
Is the desire to relocalize merely aesthetic?
If the concept of peak oil proves anything, it’s that this most “utilitarian” civilization in history is paradoxically one of the most blind. How can we, who are so practical and scientific, have failed to notice that we were careening toward the edge of this cliff? And is it possible that our conditioned insensitivity to so-called “aesthetic” concerns is, in fact, a big part of the problem?
Up from dysfunction – Jan 31
Move it, you just might get younger
California to probe development of ‘green’ chemicals
From buses to blogs, a pathological individualism is poisoning public life
Former CEO of Talisman Energy: Peak oil is ‘here or hereabouts’
Dr Jim Buckee has just retired as President and CEO of Talisman Energy, a major independent Canadian oil company with a market capitalisation of $25-billion. On the phone from Perth, Dr Buckee told me that ‘peak oil’ was now either here, or very close.
Housing & urban design – Jan 30
Abu Dhabi’s zero-carbon ‘ecotopia’
Berkeley envisions ambitious energy plan
Address climate change through land use
Making the transition
Mind the ruins
Lists of things worth saving from collapse and destruction can be made arbitrarily long: the wetlands, the symphony orchestra, the public library, the public transportation system, the solar sewage treatment plant… But in the US there is one category that never makes the list, and it is the most important one: ruins. Without much help from anyone, ruins can tell us of our history as a species.
Housing & urban design – Jan 25
My other car is a bright green city
Daniel Lerch on post carbon cities
Mayors climate protection summit
Peak oil – Jan 25
Shell chief fears oil shortage in seven years
The Gospel According to Matthew [Simmons]
Hagens, Savinar interview
PO talk in Minnesota
PO activist in Saturdays’s WSJ
Housing & urban design – Jan 22
Ecocity World Summit April 22-26 in San Francisco
Green architect receives Swiss honour
Desert state channels oil wealth into world’s first sustainable city
Stocks fall, recession ahead?
WSJ: US warning signs point toward a deep recession
Stocks plummet in Germany, Hong Kong, India, Brazil
London shares in biggest fall since 9/11
Stocks plunge worldwide on fears of a US recession
Jerome a Paris: The next domino
Kunstler: Fullblown panic
