Housing & urban design – Jan 17
Building green
Retrofitting your house for sustainability
Kunstler on the human habitat
Urban Design
Kunstler on America – Jan 15
Kunstler: Disarray – The US economy has entered a black hole
“Kunslter was right” files: Heating costs the IED of suburbia
Empty houses home to crime as loans fail
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 15
Slow Money Revolution: the global growth of local currencies
Grow your own way: How to join the allotment in-crowd
Toward a post-oil community
Ted Trainer and Rob Hopkins interview continued
Peak Moment: What Can One Person Do?
Dysfunction – Jan 9
£1,290 car delights Indians, horrifies greens
Thieves target catalytic converters
Are the suburbs a health hazard?
Petrochemicals in beauty aids
Junk mail box
Cities – Jan 2
Edinburgh city initiative on ‘peak oil’
TIME: How green is your neighborhood?
Cities and energy consumption
Housing & urban design – Dec 19
Urban renewal: Now you’re walking
A cutting-edge architect’s eco-friendly home
Europe’s cities take the lead on cutting emissions
Cities rise to climate challenge
Economics – Dec 18
Kunstler: Failure beyond finance
Krugman: After the money’s gone
Consensus is moving towards how severe the hard landing (recession) will be
Peak oil and portfolio prudence
Congressional report: Rich are getting richer faster, much faster
WTO director: “Capitalism cannot satisfy us”
Transport – Dec 13
Open a new highway – on the sea
Putting the brakes on drive-thrus
Sell your car, stay sane (car-sharing)
How big is your bicycle?
Housing & urban design – Dec 4
Stay married – divorce is bad for environment
Five-tree fee for a Java wedding
Senior transportation a growing concern
Civic agriculture = sane housing
Economics – Dec 2
Economics in Transition (alternative currencies)
Price tag in mortgage crisis is looking like real money
Review of Squeezed: Diary Of The Onset Of The Greater Depression
Housing & urban design – Dec 2
Kunstler interview; the geography of nowhere
People-Centered developments for reduced-energy living
Building equity into green homes
Middle class angst: The politics of lemmings
The deepest fear in suburbia, never spoken aloud, is that when this epoch unravels, Suburbia’s citizens quite simply will not know how to survive… The real choice that Suburbia will face is one between fascism or self-sufficiency, which is a choice – as well – between spiritual death or spiritual renewal.
