Peak oil – Feb 23
Kunstler talk: “America, think downscale!”
Climate change, peak oil and nuclear war
Study sees harmful hunt for extra oil
Climate Change, sabre tooth tigers and devaluing the future
Urban Design
Peak oil – Feb 22
Dialoguing with Dr. Peter Jackson of CERA
Libération: Vive le pétrole cher
Oil prices likely to dip – but not far
Dmitry Orlov interview (part 2)
Another site for energy news
Community Solution report:
The energy impact of our buildings
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 19
Designing outrageously successful projects
Towards a worldbuilding pattern language
GOP strategist Frank Luntz tells enviros how to persuade
Housing – Feb 17
Another high-risk lender goes under
Housing Sales Drop in 40 States
Australian dream just a recession away
Housing & urban design – Feb 14
American Dream, downsized
Wayne Co. foreclosure rate leads the nation (due to auto industry cuts)
Beyond Moscow, dachas make way for suburbia
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 12
David Suzuki interview
Transforming L.A. into a sustainable city
Green movement grows in Texas suburbs
Developing nations to test new $150 laptops
Uganda: Giving free bulbs
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 11
In Niger, trees and crops turn back the desert
A call for a green Enlightenment
Portland stares down global warming
Down and dirty: earthen floors
Housing & urban design – Feb 7
The ubiquitous sprawls of America
Exurbs hardest hit in recent housing slump
Scholars to consider the shrinking of cities
China – Feb 6
A canary in the Chinese coal mine
China to keep relying on coal
Carbon-free living: China’s green leap forward
The agenda restated
Quit wishing and start doing. The best way to feel hopeful about the future is to get off your ass and demonstrate to yourself that you are a capable, competent individual resolutely able to face new circumstances.
One of Kunstler’s best. -Ed
10 First Steps for a Transition Town Initiative
How to inspire and co-ordinate local engagement in peak oil and relocalisation planning.
Dysfunction – Jan 29
Kunstler on Martha Stewart: housing fetish
NYC becoming “the city that never walks”?
Scotland: Energy crisis as power cuts loom
Selling off Aotearoa (New Zealand)
