High speed railways connecting Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Huddersfield and Sheffield could transform the economy of the north of England, writes Ian Wray - creating a new mega-city that could challenge London's over-dominance.
… Wray | 30th June 2014 Comment UK Transport Economics Cities Politics …
The future of small island states has to be renewable, says Zaheer Allam. But that's only the first of many choices. It's just as important to develop energy networks that are diverse, resilient, adaptive and flexible - and avoid the centralised, unimodal models that investors and bureaucrats prefer to impose, often at huge long term cost.
Only connect - a renewable energy future for small island states Zaheer Allam | 5th September 2014 Comment Renewable Energy Climate Change Design Cities nasheed-solar-cut.jpg Maldives, October 2010: …
To reduce the pressure on the world's productive land and to help assure long-term food security, writes Herbert Girardet, city people are well advised to revive urban or peri-urban agriculture. While large cities will always have to import some food, local food growing is a key component of sustainable urban living.
Making cities sustainable with urban agriculture Herbert Girardet | 3rd December 2014 Ethical Living Food Farming Cities Sustainability herbie-china-city-farming-cut.jpg To reduce the pressure on the …
Turkey's Gezi Park protestors are finding common cause with Kurdish communities, writes Rosa Wild. Both are suffering from Erdogan's annihilation of land, forests, parks and cities in pursuit of economic growth. A new eco-democratic resistance is taking root.
After Gezi, a new eco-democratic alliance challenges Erdogan Rosa Wild | 26th March 2014 News Turkey Water Ecocide Politics Indigenous Peoples Forests Cities hasankeyf.png Turkey's Gezi Park …
Biological systems offer design strategies for successfully adapting to an age of climate change and resource depletion. Insights from nature will be essential in creating a green and sustainable future for humankind.
The biological basis of resilient cities Michael W. Mehaffy Nikos A. Salingaros | 25th January 2014 Ethical Living Cities Architecture Design ns-shell.png Biological systems offer design strategies …
If you don't want industrial agriculture ravaging the world to feed cities nutrient-deprived, genetically modified, chemical-drenched pap, here's an alternative, writes Matt Bevington: let cities grow their own fresh produce on 'vertical farms' in disused industrial buildings, restoring sustainability and accountability to the food chain.
Vertical farming - viable agriculture or urban pipedream? Matt Bevington | 27th October 2014 Ethical Living Cities Food Farming tomato-cut.jpg If you don't want industrial agriculture ravaging the …
A orchard garden has taken root on a long-vacant lot in an economically and racially divided neighborhood of Boston, writes Orion Kriegman. In the making it has united a community, helped to heal deep scars of violence, and inspired a wider reclamation of the urban commons.
Making it happen - a community orchard in downtown Boston Orion Kriegman | 7th November 2014 Ethical Living Commons Cities USA Farming sunflower-cut.jpg A orchard garden has taken root on a …
Football fans around the globe have their eyes set on Curitiba, Brasil this year, the site of the 2014 World Cup. But as Brian Barth reports, eco-savvy urban planners have been studying Brasil's seventh largest city for decades ...
Curitiba: the Greenest city on Earth Brian Barth | 15th March 2014 Ethical Living Brazil Sustainability Transport Cities curitiba-bus-stop.png Football fans around the globe have their eyes set on …
The country's first ever retrospective EIA finds that eight five-storey accommodation blocks built by Oxford University caused 'substantial' damage to historic views of the City's dreaming spires, writes Matthew Sherrington. Planners and University want to 'learn lessons' and move on - but campaigners are determined to cut the carbuncles down to size ...
Oxford University must put right the damage it has caused Matthew Sherrington | 14th November 2014 Activism Cities Development before-and-after.jpg The country's first ever retrospective EIA finds …
Todmorden in Yorkshire's Calder Valley has been transformed by free food growing on its streets, parks and even its rooftops. Julian Dobson tells the inspiring story of Incredible Edible and how the transformational project is going global ....
Incredible Edible Todmorden Julian Dobson | 1st January 2014 Ethical Living Food Farming Society UK Cities eit-food-to-share.png Todmorden in Yorkshire's Calder Valley has been transformed by free …
It's the fossil fuel industry's latest stroke of genius - a coal substitute that's cheaper, dirtier and more toxic than coal itself, writes Ben Whitford. The waste product of refining heavy oil from Canada's tar sands, petcoke is stored in open mountains around Chicago's 'Slag Valley', sending plumes of sticky black dust over poor neighborhoods every time the wind blows.
Petcoke: the toxic black dust coming to a community near you Ben Whitford | 9th December 2014 News Fossil Fuel Cities Waste Pollution USA Oil Corporations Politics photo-anthony martinez-cut.jpg It's …