Lincoln Institute of Land Policy senior fellow Armando Carbonell writes about the importance of land use and transportation decisions to a coherent energy and climate policy.

Citizen groups have led efforts to address the issue of peak oil in Santa Fe, where a citizen's energy board is forming, and in Greensboro, N.C., where city government is starting to listen. Both articles quote Daniel Lerch and Post Carbon Cities.

As the inevitable shadow of high-priced and carbon-emitting fossil fuels looms, Nova Scotia's municipality of Clare is sowing its own seeds of self-sufficiency, based on its kinship with a comparable community in Austria.

The North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority held a symposium to identify issues as it prepares to write its Regional Transportation Plan for the next 25 years. Among the main messages was that the old assumptions about what parts of the state will grow and where transportation dollars should be spent have been thrown out the window because of the volatile situation with oil prices and supplies.

Mick Winter of Drydipstick.com reviews Post Carbon Cities: Planning for Energy and Climate Uncertainty. "Post Carbon Cities focuses on the basics: what the energy problem is, why it is, and what can be done about it. It brings home the effects that oil and gas depletion—and climate change—are apt to have (and indeed already have) on local governments."