Suburbia: What a Concept
By ALLISON ARIEFF

There is no more iconic suburb than Levittown, the postwar planned community built by the developer William Levitt in the late 1940s, so it is understandable that in launching Open House, a collaborative project to imagine a “future suburbia,” the Dutch design collective Droog in collaboration with Diller ( Read more... )

Nuclear plants in Japan are melting down, and radioactive clouds are headed our way across the Pacific. We have time to prepare...but what should we do? I am full of ideas, but mind you, this is not medical advice! Just the random rantings of some stranger on the internet! With that said, maybe it is a good time to increase your antioxidant ( Read more... )

Top 10 Songs for the Steady StateI have a friend who sees the end of the world coming soon. When he ponders the limits to economic growth, climate destabilization, and other ecological and economic problems, he tends to fall into a state of malaise. I understand to some degree where he’s coming from - I’m not one to hide my head in the sand and ( Read more... )

Cold Burn

Yes, the extreme cold in the UK right now really could be a result of global warming. There is now strong evidence to suggest that the unusually cold winters of the past two years in the UK are the result of heating elsewhere. With the help of the severe weather analyst John Mason and the Climate Science Rapid Response Team(1), I’ve been ( Read more... )

We pay for every Israeli war at the gas pump

How about a new slogan for the anti-war and Palestine solidarity movements? We pay for every Israeli war at the gas pump! No aid to Israel!"Bells are ringing in the corridors already. If this carries on, if it's a really cold winter, we can see prices heading up to $100. "At some stage even the Saudis ( Read more... )

Damning new evidence proves what we've known all along - that Fox News is willing to lie and distort the truth to the political advantage of the far-right.

Yesterday, a memo leaked from Fox News's managing editor, Bill Sammon, instructing Fox journalists never to report on global warming without IMMEDIATELY questioning the prevailing scientific ( Read more... )

The peak oil crisis: the future of governmentIn case you missed it, a couple of weeks back the International Energy Agency in Paris got around to disclosing that the all-time peak of global conventional oil production occurred back in 2006. Despite that fact that this declaration was tantamount to announcing the end of the 250-year-old industrial ( Read more... )

UN Climate Deal A Small Step Forward In Global Warming FightCANCUN, Mexico - A U.N. conference on Saturday adopted a modest climate deal creating a fund to help the developing world go green, though it deferred for another year the tough work of carving out deeper reductions in carbon emissions causing Earth to steadily warm ( Read more... )

The Great Ventriloquist

Why is a former Greenpeace activist siding with Indonesia’s logging industry?APP is part of the Sinar Mas conglomerate, a Chinese-Indonesian company owned by a fantastically rich dynasty called the Widjajas. Founded in 1962, it grew during the regime of Indonesia’s dictator General Suharto into one of Asia’s most powerful ( Read more... )