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Solar Power Is Now an Option for Even the Most Cash-Strapped Suburbanites

Yasha Levine, AlterNet. January 16, 2010.

Residential solar leases offer a no-money-down, low-monthly plan that makes solar electricity cheaper than the stuff we get by wire -- and you don't have to buy the panels.

Why Suburbs May Become the Next Slums

David Villano, Miller-McCune.com. February 18, 2009.

The poor are fleeing our cities, but life is not always greener in the suburbs, even when affordable housing comes with a two-car garage.

The Future of Cities: How Sprawl and Racism are Intertwined

Kevin Danaher, Shannon Biggs, Jason Mark, PoliPoint Press. October 23, 2007.

Civil rights leader and environmentalist Van Jones talks about suburban sprawl, race and the future of cities.

Ten Ways to Prepare for a Post-Oil Society

James Howard Kunstler, Kunstler.com. February 10, 2007.

The best way to feel hopeful about our looming energy crisis is to get active now and prepare for living arrangements in a post-oil society.

Finding Hope in a Post-Oil Society

James Howard Kunstler, Orion Magazine. January 23, 2007.

America invested most of its late twentieth-century wealth in a living arrangement with no future: Suburbia represents the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world. It's time for us to make other arrangements.

The Radical Christian Right Is Built on Suburban Despair

Chris Hedges, AlterNet. January 19, 2007.

Millions of Americans live trapped in soulless exurbs which lack any kind of community, leaving them feeling isolated and vulnerable. Without alternatives for their social despair, they flock to demagogues promising revenge and a mythical utopia.

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