New commercial and residential developments on the waterfront thanks to more clean water, but that same development poses new environmental risks. The New York Times, July 20, 2008

A call for environmental sanity: development in the language of the natural world is destruction. It is obvious we need an environmental revolution. E/Environmental magazine, July 2008

City living and food production can co-exist very efficiently and pleasantly. A quite short and mostly market-oriented “laundry list” fromThe Times, June 28, 2008

As cities around the world look to slash their carbon emissions, several new cities provide a glimpse of the strategies and challenges of designing cities for the post-carbon age. Urban Land, June 2008

Clearing the air on a Brookings study ranking the city that made smog famous the second-greenest in the U.S.Chicago Tribune, June 24, 2008

These small towns were socially and economically dying. Then alternative power reenergized them, to “make the greenest products with the greenest fuel”. Mother Jones, May-June 2008

Our cities have always been dominated by the rich and powerful, and built and operated to serve their needs rather than those of working people who live and toil in them.Green Left, May 2008

Sustainable development, democracy, and peace are indivisible concepts. Peace cannot exist without equitable development. Harvard International Review, May 2008

Beside sprawling new “Centennial” development, there will be a huge conservation area of 240,000 acres of natural wilderness. The Guardian, May 9, 2008

Cuban permaculturalist Roberto Perez speaks about Cuba’s remarkable environmental advances, a “revolution” to deal with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Green Left, April 2008

St David's may become the first carbon-neutral city in the world, without waiting for governmental, ehm, Labour, intervention and subsidies, says The Times, April 25, 2008

As house prices fall, the cost of rural land soars to record highs; Overseas buyers and flight from cities produce 40 per cent rise in values. The Independent, April 17, 2008

Agricultural lands taken away for parks, homes, industries, and there’s no more rice and wheat enough to feed Chinese people, and to export.Reuters, The Globe and Mail, April 9, 2008

From a state of biological death to one of the healthiest urban rivers in Europe, where many species thrive (or try to). The Guardian, April 8, 2008

In more and more cities, people dig the gentle pleasures of the allotment. Some of the greenest fingers from around the globe. The Independent, March 24, 2008

Eco housing, car-free streets and socially conscious neighbours have made the German city of Freiburg ad example of sustainability. Almost so. The Observer, March 23, 2008

The rapid rise in commuter traffic to and from Budapest is creating Los Angeles-style smog. The Christian Science Monitor, March 19, 2008

Traffic pollution, poisoned water, mountains of common and dangerous garbage: a list of places in need of a dramatic change. International Herald Tribune, March 13, 2008

There are deer in the woods, geese on the lakes and flowers in the meadows – shouldn't all eco-towns be built like this? The Independent, March 12, 2008

Why do some planets survive their carbon crises and others don’t? A plan for how ours could. Some excerpts, concerning carbon neutral buildings and transport, from Yes! Spring 2008