The West still needs to think big
It is not just that the West is saturated, but rather that it feels exhausted. “Small Is Beautiful” is what we tell ourselves when we need to justify running out of steam.
Bill Durodie, Independent Blogs, 30 September 2010

Environmental Awareness
Transportation's impact on the planet is well documented - and even contested by some. Louise Smythe speaks with the industry's practitioners hoping today's intelligent technologies will contribute to a cleaner environment tomorrow
Louise Smythe, Traffic Technology International, September 2010

Can Space Reflectors Save Us?
Why we shouldn't buy into geoengineering fantasies.
David Jamison, Slate, 23 September 2010

The Synthetic Kingdom
Our increasingly complex scientific world functions in the realm of the microscopic, obscuring the macroscopic big picture.
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Second Nature, 2010

Aren’t We Clever?
While American Republicans were turning climate change into a wedge issue, the Chinese Communists were turning it into a work issue.
Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times, 18 September 2010

The powerful coalition that wants to engineer the world's climate
Businessmen, scientists and right-wing thinktanks are joining forces to promote 'geo-engineering' ideas to cool the planet's climate
Clive Hamilton, Guardian, 13 September 2010

Beware The Internet As Liberation Theology
It is time to stop thinking about the Internet as a kind of liberation theology (expressed at its most ethically naive through Wikileaks’ belief that the path to a just society is absolute transparency); the key issue facing everyone in the next decade is figuring out how to use the Internet and how to discern its societal benefits from its over-hyped Utopian promises.
Trevor Butterworth, Forbes, 8 September 2010

Is the motor car driving the world to destruction?
Two Billion Cars, like many modern green tracts, mixes demands for restraint with celebrations of techno-solutions to the problems we face. And as always, the restraint wins out.
Austin Williams, spiked, 27 August 2010

Transport: Signal manoeuvre
Across the developed world and beyond, the phenomenon of the phantom traffic jam will have disrupted many long road journeys to and from holiday destinations this month. The way this stop-go wave, which brings with it frustration for everyone from private motorists to freight hauliers, can form out of nothing is becoming one main subject of investigation by the growing band of scientists and engineers who study traffic dynamics in the hope of easing the way goods and people get around.
Clive Cookson, Financial Times, 19 August 2010