United Kingdom – Jan 17
Barclays shares in new collapse as bank crisis enters second phase
Tories steal a march on Labour with new energy policy
Heathrow third runway gets go-ahead
Transportation
ODAC Newsletter – 16 Jan
A weekly update from a UK perspective
Transport – Jan 16
Transport can help propel world to greener future: UN
Oregon envisions gas tax based on miles, not gallons
S.F.’s half-baked congestion pricing plan
SoupCycle delivers sustenance, sustainably
Transport – Jan 15
Game changer
Ray LaHood and Changing our Thinking About Transportation
Shipping rates hit zero as trade sinks
Transport – Jan 14
Back on Tracks
A Bicycle Evangelist With the Wind Now at His Back
Jimmy Carter’s bike stolen from Carter Center
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 14
Produce will sail into Ballard
Book Review: Permaculture, a beginner’s guide
Going Amish: The Decision
Transport – Jan 13
Cash crunch slows high-speed rail project
A move toward veggie power aloft
Toyota to build electric town car, plug-in hybrids
Peak oil – Jan 12
Montreal Gazette: The age of oil is ending
Politics, geopolitics, and choke points (ASPO conference video)
Let’s “hope and pray that Hirsch is wrong”
“Cheap oil era” is ending soon
Rock star Julian Cope: ‘very close’ to peak oil
Toyota to build electric town car, plug-in hybrids (cites PO)
Transportation – Jan 8
Five Months and Counting…. the realities of giving up driving
Australians buying more bikes than cars
50% hike in gas tax pushed
The peak oil crisis: Cars – redux
I hate to keep coming back to cars, but in the last hundred years they have come to be one of the most significant facets of civilization – yet their future is in doubt.
Transportation – Jan 5
A Surge in Bicyclists Appears to Be Waiting
Getting To Paradise On A Low-Carbon Budget
Got resolutions?
Sail Transport Network: Interview with Puget Sound sailor David Reid
David Reid has distinguished himself by actually getting his own sailboat and succeeded in making trial voyages to demonstrate the feasibility of sail power for passage and freight. In September of 2008 Dave sailed with friends from the Olympic Peninsula, Washington, to Seattle, with a load of organic produce. Flying the Sail Transport Network burgee and documenting the costs, time and other aspects of the voyage, the first STN tangible project came about.