- The Problem with Reinforced Concrete. Putting steel inside concrete ruins its potentially great durability.
- The Quieter Life. Adopting traditional values, attitudes and practices in an increasingly nihilistic world.
- Cool People’s Movements. Let’s not confuse ‘the right to be cool’ with the right to a consumer good.
- Life in the Spanish City that Banned Cars. In Pontevedra, the usual soundtrack of a Spanish city has been replaced by the tweeting of birds and the chatter of humans.
- Solar Panels Replaced Tarmac on a Motorway. Here are the Results. Several factors work against this oddly popular idea.
- Opec Predicts Massive Rise in Oil Production over Next Five Years. Increasing demand from airlines will more than offset reductions from electric cars.
- Everything You’ve Been Told about Plastic is Wrong. Recycling is the grown-up version of squeezing our eyes shut, sticking our fingers in our ears and shouting “lalalalalala!”.
- Why Growth Can’t Be Green. New data proves you can support capitalism or the environment—but it’s hard to do both.
- I’ve Seen the Future of Consumer AI, and it Doesn’t Have One. If ever there was a solution looking for a problem, it’s ramming AI into gadgets to show off a company’s machine learning prowess.
- Leave no Dark Corner. China is building a digital dictatorship to exert control over its 1.4 billion citizens.
First two links via Wrath of Gnon. Last link via John Butler. Penultimate link via Slashdot.
