We could do some household and neighborhood or town wind energy. But even this will run up eventually against the problem of needing an underlying fo….

Painting allows me to use other portions of my brain pleasurably. Irony plays no part in what or how I paint. I paint the particular subject matter n….

For instance, the most common type of "affordable housing" in the world comes in the form of apartments over stores..

Because I believe a lot of people share my feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked ci….

The living arrangements American now think of as normal are bankrupting us economically, socially, ecologically and spiritually..

The two elements of the suburban pattern that cause the greatest problems are the extreme separation of uses and the vast distances between things.

The ideas of [ Le Corbusier ] that actually found their way into practice were deeply destructive - for instance, the tower-in-a-park, which mutated ….

Peak oil is already upon us. It is destroying our banking system, that is, our system for marshalling capital, and that is about to put us out of bus….

The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible..

On top of the insult of destroying the geographic places we call home, the chain stores also destroyed people's place in the order of daily life, inc….

We might hope that the law as a profession does not vanish, because justice may vanish with it - but we could probably do with far fewer lawyers. Sin….

If it happens that the human race doesn't make it, then the fact that we were here once will not be altered, that once upon a time we peopled this as….

Community is not something you have, like pizza. Now is it something you can buy. It's a living organism based on a web of interdependencies- which i….

We have to do commerce differently because the WalMart system of big box chain retail will soon die. This means rebuilding local main street economie….

As the places where Americans dwell become evermore depressing and impossible, Disneyworld is where they escape to worship the nation in the abstract….

I have a new theory of history, which is certain things happen because they seem like a good idea at the time. And suburbia seemed like a good idea a….

My beef with the alt-fuel people is not the renewable or alt-fuel ideas themselves. Sooner or later, there's no question we're going to have to rely ….

I am a sur le motif painter, always in-the-field, with a French easel that folds up into a box, with backpack straps on it. Many of the sites I haunt….

Two decades from now, I doubt that the home building industry, so called, will even exist as we have known it..

I won't deny the polemical elements in my work, but they are less in the service of attempting to reform human behavior than the delighted exercise o….

I'm not against Kyoto. I just think it's a fantasy, especially considering China's energy predicament and their coal supplies..