NBC, Pickens spar over foreign oil ad
US study suggests high petrol prices leading to safer roads
California moves on bill to curb sprawl and emissions

We drive as we live
It is time for the US to sell its highways?
As Americans fill trains, frustration grows

Cultivating a suburban foodshed (audio and video)
Talking directly, and kindly, to believers in the eco life - (profile of "Ask Umbra")
Little Farm in the City(text and video)

Call to tackle UK business waste
Save your trash: An interview with Ari Derfel
Eric Lombardi's zero waste park

Plan seeks neighborhood leaders in capital city
Rediscovering bicycles, and her inner kid
New bike commuters hit the classroom, then the road
Pinching pennies like your grandparents

Statistical fluke prevents nuclear incident in Ohio
Debbie Cook: Abandon 19th century fuels and move toward 21st century reponses
Drilling boom revives hopes for natural gas
Schumer: “The drilling issue has peaked”
Big Coal’s Big-Time Lobby

In order to shed light on how Mexico's oil decline will impact the nation, the present analysis focuses on how declining oil revenues will impact five core facets of Mexican society: 1) Social Progress 2) Economic Growth 3) Inequality 4) Political Stability 5) Migration.

Energy Collective: new site for energy discussions
Utne special: Mother Earth’s big comeback
Post Carbon Relocalize Newsletter #23

If guys like Charlie stopped working for a year, you'd have to turn a few things off, big things like, say, New York and Ohio.

Optimism sells. It is one of the staples of American life. And, it makes it difficult to tell Americans bad news.