"Uninventing Suburbia"
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/fashion/10suburbs.html
http://endofsuburbia.com/
nice articles criticizing "the highway system, cheap oil, and the automobile...now typically consumes several times more energy per person (and thus fossil fuels) than urban living. There’s all that driving. There are the chugging mowers and fertilizers and pesticides used to keep all those lawns lovely. Lighting, heating and cooling those ballooning homes consumes vast amounts of energy compared to a city apartment - or a house half a century ago."
also, a nice map of dead malls: http://www.deadmalls.com/
so...who wants to form some kind of energy-producing kickass commune with me? open to ideas...thinking veggie gardens, small-scale fish farming, solar stuff...
http://endofsuburbia.com/
nice articles criticizing "the highway system, cheap oil, and the automobile...now typically consumes several times more energy per person (and thus fossil fuels) than urban living. There’s all that driving. There are the chugging mowers and fertilizers and pesticides used to keep all those lawns lovely. Lighting, heating and cooling those ballooning homes consumes vast amounts of energy compared to a city apartment - or a house half a century ago."
also, a nice map of dead malls: http://www.deadmalls.com/
so...who wants to form some kind of energy-producing kickass commune with me? open to ideas...thinking veggie gardens, small-scale fish farming, solar stuff...