Park your car and walk to store, school, work
A new comprehensive study by Saint Louis University researchers that flags the top 10 features of activity-friendly communities is a blueprint for improving public health.
Urban Design
Urban design – Nov 5
Our ailing communities: car-dependent suburbia is bad for your health /
Where will everybody live? /
Kunstler: Gawn south
Rising seas – Oct 28
Gulf Bay double whammy: rising seas, dammed rivers /
Rising seas and stronger storms threaten New York City /
Tiny island states seek help from rising Pacific
Solutions & sustainability – Oct 18
E.O. Wilson on environment and religion /
Seattle City Light fights climate change /
Green living takes root in Sweden /
Integrating energy, transportation & land use /
Certified 100% fair trade organic pre-composting material in biodegradeable packaging
Transport – Oct 17
Columbia, transportation and the politics of happiness
Bus rapid transit (BRT)
The O-Bahn busway
Americans commute earlier and longer
Energy and Californian land use planning
The California Legislature must revise the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), Environmental Impact Report (EIR) to include a specific section on energy, including project energy needs by resource type.
Solutions & sustainability – Oct 3
GE develops hybrid lightbulb
Eco-mags go high gloss
West Coast Green – building is key
The language of green is universal…or is it?
In the battle to be green, the human factor works wonders
Solutions & sustainability – Sept 29
Billy goat not gruff about his responsibilities
Urban farming: city pickers
A summer spent killing—and eating—Seattle’s small game
A reflection on cities of the future
We will be lucky if we can make the transition from our current circumstances to a future of re-sized, re-scaled cities and a reactivated productive rural landscape outside them, with a hierarchy of hamlets, villages, and towns in between, and some ability to conduct commerce and manufacturing.
Transport – Sept 28
Former mayor of Colombian city talks traffic
Peter Day meets Tesla Motors
B-52 tests alternative jet engine fuel
We need an X prize for eco-friendly air travel
Transition Town Totnes
Totnes is the UK’s first town exploring issues of how to prepare for peak oil. TTT is a community-led initiative which is working towards the creation of an Energy Descent Action Plan for the town.
Solutions & sustainability – Sept 25
Making the Tarmac bloom
Towpaths and bicycle commuting
High Point: Seattle’s green community
Wal-Mart grows ‘green’ strategies
The religious war on bottled water
