Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Barren larder, heavy heart (local food)
Deconstructing dinner: conference highlights
Do vehicles really protect children?
A world without waste?
Finding the green in building renovation
Peak Moment covers PO solutions
Interview with “Subdivided” filmmaker
Revenge of the small
Chicago architects envision the future city
Parin Shah on urban environmental accords
Taking Hubbert home: Regional energy models
Strategic thinking and strategic planning
David Hughes on Canada’s oil and natural gas
Razing farms for car factory creates battleground in India
Revived debate on German speed limit
The latest captive market: commuters
Carless in Seattle
Carless in Contra Costa
Carless in Chicago
Reviewing the year of 2006 from the perspective of sustainability in state and local government.
I sat excitedly at the speakers’ table for the press conference unveiling the Southern California Association of Governments’ (SCAG) 2006 State of the Region Report. The usual group of reporters, both print and broadcast was there. I had spent many hours formulating responses to anticipated questions regarding my remarks and the inclusion of an important new section acknowledging “peak oil.” (Debbie Cook is Mayor Pro Tem for the City of Huntington Beach)
Rail-Volution: Building livable communities with transit
The collective costs of suburban sprawl
“It’s a Wonderful Life” – not so wonderful
The way we will live: houses of the future
Rail boom hits environmental, NIMBY snags
North Coast Railroad Authority
Rail-Volution
New German community models car-free living
Software & community in the early 21st century
Permaculture for the inner landscape
A natural builder creates an ecovillage
Suburban renewal – one backyard at a time
Ten principles of post oil-peak planning
The energy detensive economy (for local governments)
Peak Oil Blues – interview
PO & GW do not fit a socially believable disaster profile
Alternative to powerdown?
New documentary: “What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire”
Mike Ruppert back in U.S.
The Highwaymen – privatization of the roads
U.S. Interstate: A golden opportunity missed
Detroit: Misguided assault on autos won’t solve energy crisis
Ford’s new Super Duty trucks
The auto efficiency wedge
The report [for the Washington D.C. area] acknowledges and even describes in much detail that there is a debate going on about peak oil. Unfortunately when the authors start talking about production starting to peak 20 years from now the sense of urgency is somehow lost.
