A green paradigm shift

While he sees these changes coming to the fore next year, and I think that it is more a matter of a serious paradigm shift that will take decades to play out, with possible acceleration due to increases in the price of gasoline as well as more restricted supplies, the entry "the Green Top 10 for 2010" list, by Steve Mouzon in his Original Green blog, is provocative:

(Note that I don't see HGTV switching to being green, sustainable, and focused on historic preservation any time soon.)

1. The New City
How things will have to change in how we locate and build places in order to have sustainable communities and a sustainable society
2. The Big Convergence
How the convergence of three trends, the Economic Meltdown, Peak Oil, and Climate Change, will bring about big changes (potentially).
3. The emergence of Live-Work
4. The Return of Durability
5. The Re-coding of the city
Tthis is about making urban zoning focused on achieving an urban place where the city supports and is based upon walking, transit, and bicycling. Most zoning codes, even for cities, are focused upon the automobile and automobile-accommodating and automobile-centric development practices. I think it's definitely a long process for reshaping this. It's not just the code and zoning that has to change. It's elected officials and the real estate development industry that have to change simultaneously. They are resistant.
6. The Return of the Garden
7. The Meltdown Vacuum
The "green lining" in the economic turndown, as unsustainable practices have a better chance at being righted given new economic circumstances.
8. Gizmo Green Gets Exposed
The belief that new technologies are the solution to any and all problems.
9. The Sustainability of Preservation
10. Offshoring Reversal