For instance, the most common type of "affordable housing" in the world comes in the form of apartments over stores.

Anyone who studies the energy predicament understands its connection with the operations of capital - and by this I do not mean capitalism as an ideology, I mean the behavior of acquired wealth and its deployment for productive purpose. (A lot of educated idiots don't understand this, and we waste a lot of time blathering about capitalism.)

The economy of the 21st century will come to center on agriculture. Life will be intensely and profoundly local in ways that we can't conceive of today. Economic growth, as we have known it in a cheap energy industrial paradigm, will cease.

Most of suburbia will end up in three ways: ruins, slums, salvage yards for materials.

Societies get what they deserve, not what they expect.

It pays to remember that societies get what they deserve, not what they expect.

I'm not against Kyoto. I just think it's a fantasy, especially considering China's energy predicament and their coal supplies.