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The Economist debates our world energy crisis
Starting tomorrow The Economist Online Debate Series is starting a two-week long online, Oxford-style debate on solving the world’s energy crisis. Readers are invited to participate.
Transport - Aug 17
Downtowns across the U.S. see streetcars in their future
Think flying stinks? It may get worse
Green fuel for the airline industry?
France's August traffic jam
How students get around
My friends and I see this shift as a good thing - youth leading the way toward decisions that could result in more livable communities, better health, lower emissions and less fossil fuel dependency.
United Kingdom - August 15
Soaring fuel prices and green pressures herald comeback for Britain's waterways
Fuel theft increases in the UK
Companies face crackdown on electricity greenwash
Globalization - August 15
China chemicals starve Indian pharma
Transport costs could alter world trade
Exports account for one-third of China’s emissions
Transport - August 14
High-tech hitchhiking
General Motors VP says Australia must end oil dependence
Sweden rolling out 183 MPH high-speed green train
Peak Oil - August 14
Interview with Swiss director of A Crude Awakening
The path from petroleum shortages to electricity shortages
Oil prices have peaked
Housing & urban design - August 13
Australia: Rising costs fuel economic stress
What our cities could be
Smart Growth: The good news about high gas prices
They took away all the cars in NYC - Summer Streets 2008
Atrios: Rules for urban design
Peak oil - Aug 12
"Energy Resources and Our Future" - Speech by Admiral Hyman Rickover in 1957
The future is now: the end of cheap oil
Peak oil, meet peak bandwidth
Solutions & sustainability - August 12
Living simply by sharing space
Going vintage is going green
Bikes, Copenhagen and Disneyland: what we have in common
Go-getter gets governments going on sustainability
Cycling with the wind behind you (electric bikes in NL)
Peak Oil Review - August 11
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
- Production and Prices
- The BTC pipeline
- Oil and the US elections
- Energy Briefs
Transport - Aug 11
Sweden requires fuel-efficient driving lessons
Airlines to cut 60m seats for Christmas
All aboard: too many for Amtrak
Proposal to put trucks on trains and save fuel hasn't developed
Biofuels - August 8
EPA rejects Perry plea on ethanol
Experts clash over viability of biofuels, alternative energy
Burgers or biofuel?
ODAC Newsletter - August 8
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
Solutions & sustainability - August 7
Students pass project torch to neighbors
Carpooling numbers on the rise
The medieval marvel: 14th century Hungarian stove cuts my monthly gas bill to just £5
Globalization - August 6
Shipping costs start to crimp globalization
Could globalization be going in reverse?
A new paradigm of globalization
Solutions & Sustainability - August 5
Bring on the Staycation / Relocalizing fun
She’s ready: Just add water
12 Tips for the sustainability shift
This week on Worldchanging Seattle
Transport - August 5
Will fares go so high that only the rich can fly?
Funds for highways plummet as drivers cut gasoline use
Interviews with Paul Scott, founder and board member of Plug In America (video)
Transport - August 4
The problem with walk score, the possibilities of carbon goggles
Automakers race time as their cash runs low
Addiction: A million little miles per gallon
Consumer auto expert Reed: ‘panic in boardrooms’ of GM, Ford as it becomes clear electric cars ‘really coming’
Housing & urban design - August 4
After the bubble, ghost towns across America
Vancouver needs to plan for a post-oil world -- now
Changing the world one block at a time
Concrete Dragon, a Book Review (about China)
