Dog's Death Sparks Debate Over Trapping

It was the last thing Gail Murphy thought she had to worry about when she took her dog for a walk through a suburban nature preserve on a quiet Sunday morning.

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he internet's been buzzing over a Brooklyn company's plan to convert discarded dumpsters into swimming pools, and now that they've successfully conned doltish hipsters into swimming inside of dumpsters, the owners want to expand their evil empire into suburbia.

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But instead of being welcomed, the Trussle family has been under attack, they said, by neighbors. The accusations against them have been wild, including that 4-year-old Spencer "might come out with a firearm at anytime."

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layoffs and other effects of the economic crisis are contributing to higher poverty levels in once-solidly middle-class communities.

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I wrote yesterday about the new study that found major declines in traffic congestion in 2008.  But to me, there's an even more interesting point hiding in the data:  population size is the best single predictor of a city's traffic congestion.  It's a fact that often gets lost …

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Oh happy day. The future has come and I feel a bright and shinny tomorrow. The Federal Government is here to serve us. What a relief. For a minute there I was scared they would make me have to be responsible for myself, provide for myself and fend for myself.

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When clothes dryers account for at least 6% of the electricity used by U.S.

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Say goodbye to the "consumer society." We're done with that. No more fast money and no more credit.

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A 40-year-old man whose road rage led to the death of an innocent bystander on Christmas eve lost his own son to a drunk driver last year. Comments of his ex-wife in this article are telling.

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This story reveals how backwards US thinking is on both oil and economics. When one describes exurbs as "unsustainable," the claim is fundamentally _not— that exurbians are immoral--it's that they're _foolish_.

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CNN reports that commuter suburbs in California are beginning to resemble some of the nastier banlieu of Paris.

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In the coming decades, suburbia may become populated by low-income families, while urban areas are rejuvenated according to New Urbanism, with mixed-use neighborhoods and totally walkable ways of life.

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FIFTEEN miles east of Philadelphia, Willingboro's Grand Marketplace is a chaotic place. Merchants hawk Christian T-shirts, Amish quilts, Chinese food, massages and Afrocentric literature. Salsa music blasts from a CD stall.

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In James Howard Kunstler's view, public spaces should be inspired centers of civic life and the physical manifestation of the common good. Instead, he argues, what we have in America is a nation of places not worth caring about.

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Energy scarcity and now food shortages have dominated the headlines in recent weeks. Many peakists believe this is only the beginning of a future composed of dwindling resources and limited goods.

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In James Howard Kunstler's view, public spaces should be inspired centers of civic life -- the physical manifestation of the common good. Instead, he argues, what we have in America is a nation of places not worth caring about.

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Strange days are upon the residents of many a suburban cul-de-sac. Once-tidy yards have become overgrown, as the houses they front have gone vacant. Signs of physical and social disorder are spreading.

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The Pilgrims found New England in the 1600s to be well stocked with wild turkeys, which figured into their regular diet, including the original Thanksgiving feast.

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We listen to the Boss or Chuck Berry or Hendrix or whoever as an act of rebellion against our settled lives ... this about sums it up for me.

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I get lots of letters from people in various corners of the nation who are hysterically disturbed by the continuing spectacle of suburban development.

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Aren't cars great? In the last sixty years, we've built such a great network of roads and service stations and restaurants that whenever you feel like it, you can get into your car and drive and drive and drive and ...

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Excellent article on the growing problem of suburban poverty. The suburbs are problematic because they're expensive (and currently heavily subsidized) and systemically fragile. Under social pressure, suburban environments are faring worse than one would expect of urban ones.

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By Alpine's standards Eddie Farrell's house is hardly jaw-dropping. A five-bedroom split-level ranch with a lawn and swimming pool, it is to all outward appearances a slice of cookie-cutter, upper-middle-class domesticity.

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"The best way to feel hopeful about our looming energy crisis is to get active now and prepare for living arrangements in a post-oil society."

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FROM his home office, Greg Smith can gaze across the parched paddocks of Rutherglen, in the state's north-east.

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Game Room Invasion-Home gaming has undergone a paradigm shift in the last 30 years

Your buddy Ted wants to show you around his place. The problem is there are scented candles everywhere. Framed pictures of poodles and kittens line the walls. There's even a bouquet of daisies on the kitchen counter.

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