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.
Buildings
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
Urban design – Aug 5
London: How to write low-carbon policies /
Jane Jacobs, reconsidered / Stockholm: goodbye, for now, to a successful traffic congestion tax
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.