sustainability

The emergence of ‘smart cities’ came as a step forward in the deployment of technology to improve our cities, and therefore our lives. It didn’t take us long to realise the dangers of allowing private companies to get access to one of our most precious...

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The solution: A Roof + A Skill + A Market via The Bubian Vault website After two years of technical trials, a French builder, Thomas Granier, and a Burkinabé farmer, Séri Youlou, set up the Association la Voûte Nubienne (AVN) in the year 2000. AVN's mission...

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via futurist blog In Brief Scientists have developed a sunlight-powered device that can extract water even from desert skies. The device is powered passively by sunlight and may provide an answer to the billions facing severe water shortages around the...

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The Boston Redevelopment Authority was infamous for bulldozing neighborhoods and displacing residents. Now, it’s using human-centered design thinking to shake that reputation. via FastCompany Newsletter By Eillie Anzilotti When Martin J. Walsh was sworn...

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via New Story Hub Newsletter Findhorn Fellow, futurist and prolific author, Guy Dauncey, presents Journey to the Future: A Better World is Possible. Guy works to develop a positive vision of a sustainable future, and to translate that vision into action....

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via Charles Eisenstein website soundcloud Satish Kumar is, in the truest sense of the word, an elder in the peace and ecology movement. To me personally, he is one of those deep allies who confirms that the most radical ideas I work with ...

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Source via We Dream Business Blog A. The main facts about the activities of the company. POCHECO is a French company that manufactures and distributes all types of ecological envelopes or, how they call them, ecovelops. Their main objective is to produce...

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via FastCompany by Cale Guthrie Weissman Picture pixabay Lizenz CC0 The chairman of the coffee roaster Illy talks about the future of business and why corporations need to care about sustainability. Illy is perhaps one of the most recognized coffee businesses...

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via treehugger by Derek Markham (@derekmarkham) One way to move toward a cleaner, greener city is through offering citizens financial incentives to get out of their cars and onto two wheels. Getting around on a bicycle can be an excellent way to clean...

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Source website space 10 The Growroom in all its glory. Photo by Alona Vibe The design for The Growroom, an urban farm pavilion that looks into how cities can feed themselves through food producing architecture, is now open source and available for anyone...

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These wooden skyscraper designs are more sustainable, less expensive, and consume less fossil fuel to build and maintain.

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(Source: trueactivist.com; January 31, 2017;Grafic Credit: BMDesign Studios http://tinyurl.com/h7x8cvc) This intriguing concept collects rainwater and cools homes in desertic climates.Water scarcity is a conundrum that affects every continent. Approximately...

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(Source: collective-evolution.com; February 8, 2017; http://tinyurl.com/z7pgcy8) Every year, more and more people move out of the country and into cities, causing megacity air pollution to rapidly become hazardous to both the environment and public health....

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via website New Story Hub “The web of life is sacred, and we’re part of that web. Since the prevailing story says humans are separate from the rest of life, how can we (re)find ourselves in that web? ~ Political Science Professor Karen Litfin, author...

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Johanna Treblin copyright Deutsche Welle Global Ideas (Photos by Maja Mueller + Hans-Peter Kraus) Summers on the eastern Indian coast are hot and dusty with temperatures often shooting up to 40 degrees Celsius. The red sand in this eastern part of the...

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Via treehuger by Kimberley Mok source inhabitat Picture Source Naturhuset The Arctic Circle has some of the harshest climate you can imagine: long, cold, dark winters and short summers. Yet this is the very place that the Hjertefølgers, a family of six,...

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via Nexus Newsfeed blog source: naturalblaze.com Have you ever contemplated the fact that humans are the only species on Earth that pays to live on the planet? This continues, despite the fact that there is presently more than enough resources to care...

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via nexusnewsfeed source conscious life Video Source: Tiny House Listings David Latimer of New Frontier Tiny Homes Has gone all out to design the tiny house that anybody could love. He calls it the Alpha Tiny House. Watch the video in source link below...

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by our new author Klaus Hoppe Consultant Energy Solutions for Cities How Modern Football [1] Helps Develop New Forms of Cooperation in Cities and Municipalities Challenges ahead The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation. Bertrand Russel Cities...

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via inhabitat source Arch Daily by Ana Lisa Brahma-Architects turned trash into treasure with their striking LAHO House. Located in a communal settlement in Israel called Hofit, the family home combines minimal lines with found materials. A colorful reclaimed...

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via inhabitat by Katie Medlock Could a fleet of floating jellyfish purify our polluted rivers and streams? That's the idea behind Janine Hung's Jellyfish Lodge, which protects the land, air, and water while growing healthy food. A combination of trash-collecting...

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25 Years ..What Next? Two weeks ago, 300 people gathered in Totnes Civic Hall, Devon, UK, to celebrate 25 years of Schumacher College and consider 'What Next?' for this pioneering educational place, specialising in learning for a more sustainable, just...

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Tag(s) : #Education, #Ecology, #Environment, #Ethic, #Urbanism, #Integral, #Pionier, #Paradigm Shift, #Awarness, #Sustainability

via TreeHugger by Lloyd Alter What is a a Passive House? One critic of Passive House design called it “a single metric ego driven enterprise that satisfies the architect's need for checking boxes, and the energy nerd's obsession with BTUs.” But over at...

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Author: Matt Payton via Independent 'Supermarkets will be obliged to sign a donation deal with charities' Supermarkets in France have been banned from throwing away or spoiling unsold food by law. The stores are now required to donate unwanted food to...

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MapMakersWorld Author: Simon Poeschel At first please excuse the long break after my last blog. Amongst others I spent four weeks on my bike cycling through northern Italy. The matter of fact that you can find in almost every small village a small café,...

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