Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Environmental organizations do not ask people to change their fashion sense or consider warming up their body and not the house like the Japanese do. No one is asked to change anything. Just program the thermostat and forget about it.
MIT president: A model for tackling the energy challenge
CSIRO Sustainability Network Newsletter
Re-thinking progress: Well-being as the focus of policy
Green revolution sweeping construction industry
Bangladesh pays cruel price for the west’s excesses
Inhofe gives global warming a final cold shoulder
Exxon spends millions to cast doubt on warming
US science teachers pass on climate DVDs
Americans try to shift into ‘carbon neutral’
Climate change has a chilling effect on where Americans can build homes
Monbiot: In praise of coaches [buses]
Vietnam gets richer, locals trade bikes for cars
So how about public transit?
Rhizome-based structures need to replace hierarchical ones, Vail argues, in all areas of our society — social, political, economic, educational etc. to entrench the power and sustainability of self-sufficient communities and render them invulnerable to re-expropriation of that power by hierarchies.
U.S. Senator Reid to change U.S. energy plan
Energy industry: Regulate us
Shutdown of EPA libraries
US dollar: everybody’s problem
Stalled subdivisions – Kunstler’s prophecy come true?
Energy Descent Plans and the Oil Depletion Protocol
Six ways to shrink that heating bill
Vancouver Energy Farm update
How to build intelligent suburbs
Ecotopia – a photographic exhibit
FEASTA expand website
Post Carbon Newsletter – a half million visitors
Kunstler: A reflection on cities of the future
Kunstler: Review of “Sprawl: a compact history”
Sprawl will stretch infrastructure – report
Sprawl wars: It doesn’t have to be so
Lords of the logistic: Don’t need no stinkin’ SUVs
Rail revolution to clear UK’s gridlock ‘in 30 years’
Heavier Americans – increased fuel consumption
Turns out, Seattle isn’t so green
Self-sufficiency plan for a suburban home
Science cafés: Knowledge in a casual setting
McKibben: Is corporate do-goodery for real?
Visionary architect William McDonough
Air conditioning and refrigeration are the most significant contributors to end-use household electricity use. Here’s some suggestions on how you can reduce your cooling costs not by a few percentage points, but by orders of magnitude.
Heart and soul of the city (eco-restoration in Seoul) /
Douthwaite interview (local currencies) /
The new rage on the road is ecological
