“Green Metropolis — What the City Can Teach the Country About True Sustainability” (Riverhead Books) is a marvelously clear-eyed analysis of the growing energy / environmental crisis.

“Every serious discussion of the environment … is ultimately about oil, whether it specifically mentions oil or not,” David Owen writes. The explosive growth and general prosperity of the past century have been made possible by the “prodigious abundance” of oil; the problems of the coming century will involve “oil’s increasing scarcity and cost.”

via End Of Cheap Oil, End Of Road For Ruinous Lifestyle — Courant.com.