Meadowlily Submission to Council | Post Carbon London

London Councillors and City Staff:
The proposed big box retail complex — far from core areas of London, at 168 Meadowlily Road South — would further increase our dependency on automobiles and fossil fuels, while leading to further destruction of local farmlands and carbon sinks. This proposal is completely unacceptable, given how it is increasing clear [...]

Berkeley Approves City-Backed Loans for Solar Panels

Berkeley Approves City-Backed Loans for Solar Panels. By Felicity Barringer, NYTimes, September 17, 2008. “The Berkeley City Council moved late Tuesday to eliminate one of the biggest obstacles to making homes more energy-efficient: the upfront cost. In a move being watched by other cities around the country, the Council [...]

James Howard Kunstler: The tragedy of suburbia

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Eulogy to American Culture – documentary – “What A Way To Go”

10 minute synopsis of film, ‘What a Way to Go’:

clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8X8_wUoiq0&NR=1
Interview of film-makers/trailers from the movie What a Way to Go – Life at the End of Empire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFyI5ZYG_pE
10 minute synopsis of film, ‘What a Way to Go’:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbOe8fPpOdo
clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8X8_wUoiq0&NR=1
Interview of film-makers/trailers from the movie What a Way to Go – [...]

Today’s Suburbs, Tomorrow’s Slums?

‘Peak oil’ theorists say house prices outside cities will collapse as the cost of gas rises, forcing people to choose urban living
JEFF GRAY
From Monday’s Globe and Mail
June 30, 2008 at 10:23 AM EDT
According to some doomsday scenarios, spiking gas prices could turn the cul-de-sacs and two-car garages that surround [...]

America’s love affair fades as the car becomes burden of suburbia

The nation of road movies, freeway freedom and dreams of endless horizons is waking up to the reality of soaring fuel prices. Paul Harris in Riverside, California, reports that people are leaving their gas guzzlers in the garage

Paul Harris
The Observer,
Sunday July 6, 2008
Article history

It is known as the [...]

Love affair with cars is taking its toll

Love affair with cars is taking its toll
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We can call them toll highways or congestion charges or road pricing, or just another tax, but the era of the “freeway” is clearly passing its due date.
Charging tolls on highways and roads may be wildly unpopular among voters everywhere — and politically dangerous around the [...]

GASOLINE PRICES: GOING TO TOWN | Today’s suburbs, tomorrow’s slums?

‘Peak oil’ theorists say house prices outside cities will collapse as the cost of gas rises, forcing people to choose urban living

JEFF GRAY
jgray@globeandmail.com
June 30, 2008

According to some doomsday scenarios, spiking gas prices could turn the cul-de-sacs and two-car garages that surround North America’s cities – built over the [...]