If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed.This was pulled from the latest Census statistics. (Thanks to Phillip Reese from the Bee)

Watching the burbs grow as they have is kind of like watching everyone head into a restaurant that you know serves really bad food that will make them all [...]

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Oil consumption per capita (darker colors represent more consumption).
How does it make you feel?  Kind of guilty huh? Me too.

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This article comments on a report put out by the Brookings Institute about walkable cities in America.
Sacramento made the top 30.
We could do better though!
“For 50 years we had this collective amnesia about how to build great places,”
Levi

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and eat it as I ride my bike to work.

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In 1975 the average home was 1,645 square feet. Today, that number has risen to 2,434.
What makes the trend even more unbelievable is that during that same time period the average number of people per household decreased from 3.14 to 2.57.
Truly a trend worth reversing…
Levi

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James Howard Kunstler in his usual raw style exposes suburban sprawl for what it really is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1ZeXnmDZMQ

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I run it. I actually don’t know anyone in Sacramento who does not use one. Although I am sure there are people who don’t.
And after seeing this fact…
18% of all the electricity consumed in America is used to power air conditioners.
I think we need to figure out a better way.

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Thanks to this new browser toolbar widget, I stumbled upon this site which gives real time carbon dioxide emission levels (and birth and death rates) for every country in the world.
Note which countries are coded “RED”…
Jason

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