Solutions & sustainability – Sept 11
MIT discovers appropriate technology
Knitting for the Apocalypse
Free-lunch foragers
Green Acres (TIME discovers eco-villages)
Think longevity
Urban Design
Housing & urban design – Sept 11
Developing a hotter L.A.
Exercisers stuck in unwalkable settings
America’s McMansion problem
Finding hope in permaculture
There is hope to be found, but it’s not hope that lets us “Pass Go and Collect $200” (i.e., a hope for a comfortable, stress-free life). Rather, it’s a hope for a new life in which we are the architects of our own survival.
Solutions & sustainability – Sept 6
Place matters (the joy of walkability)
Transition Town Maidenhead in the news
To teens in the first decade of the 21st century
Restoring native landscapes – from a dump to a park (+ jatropha)
Transport – Sept 1
Climate, conscience, and atmospheric carbon (air travel)
YouTube on Vélib’, the bike rental scheme that’s shaking up Paris
Urban design – Aug 31
The city as massive gym: Living longer by walking more
More people, more concrete, and lots more heat in Phoenix
Transport – Aug 27
In India, one cheap car could go a long way
Sharon Astyk: Get on a bike
How walkable is your neighborhood?
Virgin Blue finds fuel costs add drag
Solutions & sustainability – Aug 27
The kibbutz sheds socialism and gains popularity
Know your carbon impact
100-square-foot house fits him
MIT pushes the revolving door to save energy
Efficiency measures could cut data center, server energy use by half
Transport – Aug 25
Netherlands: Car sharing gaining popularity
Bikes in Portland: We like fun, but we really like functional
Emerald cities – Aug 25
Environmental history of Seattle
China eco-cities update
Air travel – Aug 23
WHO predicts more global epidemics, blames air travel
TIME: Does flying harm the planet?
Oil Depletion and the Brisbane airport expansion
Housing & urban design – Aug 21
New guidebook: Post Carbon Cities: Planning for Energy and Climate Uncertainty
Astyk: The brother-in-law on your couch vision of the apocalypse
Mud: building block of the future
