Urban design – Aug 5
London: How to write low-carbon policies /
Jane Jacobs, reconsidered / Stockholm: goodbye, for now, to a successful traffic congestion tax
Urban Design
Solutions & sustainability – Aug 2
The logic of sufficiency / Given enough minds – bridging the ingenuity gap / Something exciting is happening in Britain’s suburbs / So big and healthy Grandpa wouldn’t even know you
Solutions & sustainability – July 30
Social ecologist Murray Bookchin dies at 85 / Redefining American beauty, by the yard /
The environmental benefits of vegetarianism / Sustainability Network Newsletter #60
Back(yard) to the land Family grows its meals on tiny urban lot
For most people, eating organic means a trip to the local whole-foods store and, often, a hit to their wallets. For the Dervaes family, eating organic requires only a trip to the garden. The family of four raises 3 tons of food each year — enough to supply three-quarters of their diet and maintain a thriving organic produce business to boot.
Housing – July 26
How U.S. homes are hurt by rising energy prices / Price appreciation at a 10-year low as existing-home sales soften / The housing & transportation affordability index (they are related!) / Earth homes make for affordable housing
Solutions & sustainability – July 25
Eco-party celebrates art of simple living /
The Un-Coal /
Go green, Miliband tells UK supermarket bosses /
Green Wonders of the World (building) /
Is buying local always best? /
Principled eaters gather at grill
The Twang Factor
Here at high noon of 2006, I’ll stand pat with what I have said more than once: we have already entered the zone of The Long Emergency.
Housing & urban design – July 10
Interview with smart-growth expert Anthony Flint / The next real estate boom /
Plants, grass on the rooftop? No longer an oddity in Chicago.
The peak oil crisis: energy & building
In North America we spend 90 percent of our time inside buildings where the temperature, moisture, and even the oxygen content of the air we breath are all kept at acceptable levels by – you guessed it – cheap energy.
Solutions & sustainability – July 4
Fuel economy tips / Presentations from New Urbanism conference (including Kunstler & Darley) /
Ranchers and farmers find a silver lining in the conservation cloud / Author finds sprawl isn’t the be-all and end-all / USDA ID-tag plan for farm animals has some small-scale farmers unhappy
Peak oil – July 4
Urban location, housing debt and oil vulnerability in the Australian City / How to define ‘energy security’? / ASPO Newsletter for July / National Education Association alerted to peak oil
Solutions & sustainability – June 30
Meg Wheatley – the power of chaos /
We must preserve the earth’s dwindling resources for my 5 children / Think you would be happier if you were richer? Think again / Bogota’s mayor’s happy ‘war on cars’ /
“Made to Break” reveals the roots of our throwaway culture / High tech trash: Elizabeth Grossman
