Solutions & sustainability – July 21
Peak oil and solutions on NPR (Albert Bates interview)
City commissioner Adams sees web of streetcars for Portland
Smart Cities: rethinking the city centre in Brisbane
Urban Design
Transport – July 19
BREAKING: New York City’s traffic fee plan wins state OK
What drives quality of life for seniors? Driving
Flying high on pond scum
Housing & urban design – July 18
Planning for Climate Change
Surviving the Century
Landlords wake up and smell the green
Birmingham pilots Sun-space scheme
Pressure to preserve tree canopy heats up
Transport – July 16
NYC congestion plan down to wire
A new French Revolution: let them ride bikes
Cities – July 11
London readies for ‘energy revolution’
Belgian city offers a workable, fare-free model
NYC: Congestion pricing is also security pricing
Housing & urban design – July 9
When building green ain’t so green
First zero emissions, zero waste city in Abu Dhabi
Urban chic: city growth can be ‘a force for good’
Transport – July 6
17 reasons to stop charging people to ride the bus:
The case for fare-free transit
India races for the world’s cheapest car
Local rail- an overview
The Home Front
Excerpts from recent Australian documentary on home energy use and efficiency.
The future has pedals – July 2
Bamboo bike quite the offshoot
UN calls for pedal power
Have canoe, will cycle: World Heritage sustainable commuting
Time pedals on for Critical Mass
Deceptive landscape
My pleasant walk through these leafy streetscapes is deceptive. For all its orderliness this neighborhood generates enormous entropy that is hidden from the viewer’s eyes. This has implications for our political life because these are the kinds of neighborhoods across the United States from which communities draw their leaders and in which turnout is heaviest during election time.
Solutions & sustainability – June 28
The 12 steps of Transition – the movie(s)
Soil: The secret solution to global warming
Terra Preta- agricultural miracle from the past?
10 Steps to a slow home
Germany mulling program to boost energy efficiency
Economics – June 26
Jerome a Paris: The Anglo disease
The middle classes discover they’ve been duped by the super-rich
Tidal wave of debt engulfing the young
Kunstler: Peak suburbia
