Transport – Nov 29
Are you driving yourself crazy?
A local approach to easing gridlock
An alternative to cars? Official laughs out loud
Urban Design
Housing and urban – Nov 27
Bold new “eco-city” in China?
Rumbling across India to a new life in the city
In miles of alleys, Chicago finds its environmental frontier
Can LEED survive the carbon-neutral era?
Leaps of faith drive ever-expanding ‘burbs
UK: nuclear, airport and homes – Nov 27
Brown to endorse new generation of nuclear power and Heathrow airport expansion
A dogma that has had its day
New terminal planned for Heathrow
Brown: Britain’s prosperity depends on airport expansion
George Monbiot for building 3 million homes
Adaptive responses to peak oil
Many of the proposals made so far to deal with the crisis of industrial society have centered on massive programs with huge price tags and few options in case of failure. A look at more flexible approaches may be in order.
Our cities, our future – Nov 21
Kunstler: Formerly normal
Walking towns: universities, military bases & pre-auto
European-style bike-sharing programs head to US
Middle class angst: the politics of lemmings
Two can live as cheaply – Nov 21
Can shrunken families be reflated?
Sharon Astyk: Getting more butts in your house
Preparing transportation for oil depletion
Some 95% of motorized travel and freight movement by land, sea, and air is fuelled by oil products, accounting worldwide for consumption of some 60% of crude oil. …Our assessment of numerous alternatives to oil as a transport fuel concludes that, as oil depletion progresses, only electricity could reasonably power acceptable levels of land transportation.
Recession – Nov 18
Consensus shifts towards the hard landing view
The Observer: Is it time to panic?
Credit crunch: it ain’t over yet
Cities – Nov 18
Cars out as London mayor clears way for Paris-style plage and cycle boulevards
City’s slicker: density means less impact
Peak oil – Nov 17
Lester Brown: Ringing alarm of peak oil
Kharecha and Hansen: Implications of “peak oil” for atmospheric CO2 and climate
Energy crisis is on horizon -Mattthew Simmons
Kunstler in Bakersfield
Come gather round cities – Nov 14
UK’s towns on ‘the road to enlightenment’
Chicago takes a shine to Portland
Wales: How green is my valley?
Post-carbon cities and the future of growth
Peak oil – Nov 13
Preparing for Peak Oil– a new report from ODAC
Turkish Weekly: Global peak oil and dollar
Have global stock markets peaked on peak oil?
Spiked reviews A Crude Awakening
Energy decline and national GDP in 2050: the growth of destitution
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