Michael Dudley

A new study shows that the number of households entering some stage of foreclosure is up 45% over this time last year -- one for every 1,117 U.S. households.

While research has yet to conclusively prove a link between neighborhood design and childhood obesity, studies do show that urban design considerations can facilitate healthy child outcomes.

Energy concerns aside, suburbia has become unsustainable as an environment of debt and economic apartheid, writes John Barber.

Without access to the kind of community support they once knew in their homelands, otherwise successful recent immigrant women to Canada are finding themselves socially isolated and depressed in suburbia.

Orion Online offers up James Howard Kunstler's 5-part video series on 'peak oil' based on his book 'The Long Emergency.'