Thought for the day: are resources finite?

If they aren't then you don't have to worry about waste, inefficiency, and profligacy. That includes an economy dependent on cheap gasoline to get around--as someone says, powering a 3,000 pound car to cart around a cup of Starbucks coffee.

The Toronto Globe and Mail is running a set of articles about Vancouver, known for its higher density oriented downtown plan, by visiting and writing about other cities.

See "Listen to the Japanese" and "Lessons from Hamburg."

Unrelated, but related, is this story, "The aging problem of suburbia," about suburbs not being hospitable places for people without cars, or greater needs, especially as they age.