Linking Land Use Planning and the Food Environment
An emerging issue in the smart growth field is the link between a healthy food environment and good land use planning.
Urban Design
Urban & housing – Jan 3
Interview with “Subdivided” filmmaker
Revenge of the small
Chicago architects envision the future city
Parin Shah on urban environmental accords
Peak oil – Dec 29
Taking Hubbert home: Regional energy models
Strategic thinking and strategic planning
David Hughes on Canada’s oil and natural gas
Cars and carless – Dec 29
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
Top 10 sustainability stories of 2006
Reviewing the year of 2006 from the perspective of sustainability in state and local government.
The ripening
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)
Housing & urban design – Dec 24
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 – Dec 24
Rail boom hits environmental, NIMBY snags
North Coast Railroad Authority
Rail-Volution
Solutions & sustainability – Dec 21
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
Peak oil – Dec 21
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.
Autos – Dec 21
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 peak oil crisis: the Council of Governments
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.
