Habitat of the motorist
The preferred habitat of the motorist is intrinsically a terrible habitat for the pedestrian, and vice-versa. Places truly congenial for both are a spatial impossibility.
Urban Design
Social Fertilizer: The big growth potential of urban agriculture
Community gardens are primarily hobbies here in Vancouver, but internationally they are known for their ability to feed entire cities.
Cities Can Save the Earth: the urban solution to climate change, species extinctions and peak oil
Over the past century, our cities have been shaped – literally – by the demands of the automobile. Today, with global oil reserves declining irreversibly, it’s time to face the challenges of the imminent post-oil reality.
Climate Policy – Sept 4
City of Portland, Oregan, going 100% renewable
Offsets no easy fix for climate change
Californian Governor signs emissions commitment
Climate forces strange bedfellows
Housing & group living – Aug 29
Flash! – communes on the rise again
Think small, think local (Earthaven)
Real estate: smaller to become better
Curbing the big, the bad, the ugly in L.A.
Solutions & sustainability – Aug 27
– In praise of zealous nuts
– Permaculture – permanent agriculture
– NPR: eating local, thinking global
– My low-carbon diet
– “Sustainable well-being” – theme of
2007 AAAS conference
Urban design – Aug 24
– Cities healthy for cars, unhealthy for people
– Building the New Urbanism
– Eco-friendly small-town America
Net Oil Exports Revisited
Jeffrey J. Brown on the decline in global oil exports and the future of suburbia
Renewables – Aug 15
Prof. Paul Alivisatos on nanotechnology and renewable energy / Boatload of biodiesel shipping today / San Francisco’s clean energy revolution is here
Food, heatlh & agriculture – Aug 15
Overweight ‘top world’s hungry’ / Living ourselves to death / Eat, memory: family heirloom (Masumoto in NYT) / Meat eaters without the guilt / Texas 2006 ag losses worst single-year total ever / Rice prices may double by 2008
Housing & urban design – Aug 15
Could rising gas prices kill the suburbs? / Sick cities: fast life, slow death / It’s getting easier to be green (building green in NYC) /
I think that I shall never see
A greenhouse gas reduction strategy as lovely as a tree
Housing & urban design – Aug 11
The role of storytelling and imagery in successful planning movements (new urbanism) / Chicago mayor pushes urban ecology into the mainstream / Reconquering world cities / NYT: build green, make green
