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Boeing's nightmare: Qantas dumps Dreamliners
Why gardening is more dangerous than cycling
Feathered fuel tank soaks up hydrogen

Permaculture Future?: Part I
San Francisco to Toughen a Strict Recycling Law
New numbers prove smart growth reduces CO2, cost-effectively

If you are planning to withdraw, please tell me where you're going, and send directions. If not, it's time to start thinking about how you and your family or tribe will muddle through the years ahead. One word comes to mind: durability. If that wasn't the first word that came to your mind, I'm not surprised.

This Vision for a Sustainable West Cheshire is intended to guide the Cheshire West and Chester Authority (CW&C) in taking decisions about the future of the area. It is centred on the premise that if we are to achieve a truly sustainable community by 2050 the direction of travel set now must be right.

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U.S. Stimulus Puts Bullet Trains on the Fast Track
Don’t Fight The Powerful Trends Now Underway
Pump Prices Driving More to Mass Transit

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UK air passenger numbers slump as recession bites
Lord Adonis sees demise of short flights

Why we need the national academy of sciences to study peak oil
Peak flow rates, not peak oil?
The pitfalls of natural gas as the default climate change option
GM preparing for high oil prices: chief executive

For me a boat easily fit into my collection of human powered vehicles, yet was something new that I hadn't tried before as an adult. And here it was entering my consciousness as a post-collapse survival tool, the context by which I justified my investments of time and money. But was a boat a survival tool or an expensive new toy? It was not as though I could commute in a boat as I would on a bicycle.

A weekly review from a UK perspective.