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The geography of hope

From New Statesman, a cover story on how to stop climate change, the easy way: Changing your light bulbs may not be enough to save a single polar bear, but there are things we can do collectively - and easily - that will really make a measurable difference in the battle against global warming. A review of The Onion's reference book, Our Dumb World: Atlas of the Planet Earth, 73rd Edition. A review of The Geography of Hope: A Tour of the World We Need by Chris Turner. From Plenty, Travis Price's The Archaeology of Tomorrow: Architecture & the Spirit of Place makes a case for restoring the green building movement to its spiritual and aesthetic center. But will his ideas take hold? Alain de Botton on Remembrance of Things Built. A review of The World in a City: Traveling the Globe Through the Neighborhoods of the New New York by Joseph Berger. A review of Renewable City: A Comprehensive Guide to an Urban Revolution by Peter Droege. Call it New Urbanism, but it's still the oldest way there is to make a city neighborhood. From The New Yorker, is there any hope for the automobile? Elizabeth Kolbert reviews Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future by Iain Carson. Life in the Slow Lane: An article on the potential of a toll booth-free America. An article on why students, schools, and governments should care about mass transit. Oversized and overhyped, the world's biggest plane is here. Is the Airbus 380 the "most hideous airliner ever conceived"?