Collaboration / Emerging Technologies / Food & Farming / Purchasing Green / Sustainable Design
De-Industrializing the City
Alex Steffen, 8 Feb 10 One of my favorite quotes by Bjarke Ingels: "Engineering without engines. We should use contemporary technology and computation capacity to make our buildings independent of machinery. Building services today are essentially mechanical compensations for the fact that buildings are...
Why Our Bright Green Futures Will Be Weirder Than We Think
Alex Steffen, 4 Feb 10 I've been thinking about how weird the future is getting. One of the most creatively interesting aspects of zero impact as a goal is the way in which it transforms our understanding of many of the "solutions" now on the...
New Energy Hubs: Transit-Oriented Development Meets District Energy
Patrick Mazza, 12 Jan 10 Advanced community design models are emerging to provide some of the greatest opportunities for reducing fossil fuel use, climate-disrupting emissions and traffic congestion, while also offering affordable, high-quality lifestyles. Envision living in a community that offers an abundance of local...
Big Urban Ag in Detroit?
Julia Levitt, 4 Jan 10 This article from the L.A. Times covers an interesting proposition: Hantz Farms is buying up abandoned city properties in Detroit, with plans to convert them to large-scale commercial agriculture use. The idea is that they will put "pods" of land...
Young People Negotiate Copenhagen Deal Using Google Wave
WorldChanging Team, 16 Dec 09 by Adam Vaughan The Global Youth Panel is a team of more than 1,000 young people from 140 countries analysing events in Copenhagen Among the millions of people scrutinising the final week of Copenhagen, more than a thousand of them...
