General Motors stock closed below $10 per share yesterday for the first time in 54 years. The stock’s 15 percent one-day drop followed a report by a Merrill Lynch analyst that bankruptcy was within the realm of possibility for GM if current trends continue.
The decline of GM has been long in coming, although it has [...]

An interesting company called New Amsterdam Project is getting attention this week from TreeHugger and Green Daily. New Amsterdam Project (NAP) started offering delivery services in the Boston area last November using cargo tricycles that one might describe as human-electric hybrids. An electric power source assists the cyclist, making it possible to carry a [...]

CNN is running a story with the provocative title, Is America’s suburban dream collapsing into a nightmare? Its theme is familiar to those who have been aware of the climate crisis, the depletion of fossil fuels, and other converging problems, but has not often been addressed so explicitly in the conventional media. (ABC [...]

On Sunday, I had the good fortune of seeing a documentary called A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil, which was released in 2007. It was shown as part of a film and discussion series entitled Positive Films for a Positive Future at the public library in Albany, California, which I find to [...]